Dragaera

What Should I Buy?

Tue Feb 17 06:22:48 PST 2004

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:33:09AM -0500, Casey Rousseau wrote:

> I'd also recommend almost anything by James Lee Burke, if you're looking
> outside the f/sf genres.  Gritty crime drama mostly set in the South.  There
> are plenty of choices in massmarket editions that would meet the $7 range
> you're looking for.

I did particularly like 'In The Electric Mists With The Confederate
Dead', which I bought because of the title.  It sent me off on a
kick of reading his Dave Robicheaux novels, all of which had just
been reprinted.  That turned out to be a bit of a mistake, as 
the descriptive passages sure started to sound repetitive.  That's 
not to say they're not *good* descriptive passages; they make you feel
like you've actually lived in New Orleans and rural Louisiana.  But
between that and the fact that there are just *too many* odd things
that happened to Robicheaux, reading them close together wasn't a
good idea.  But that's often true of any long genre series.

His Montana novels are also good.  There aren't as many, so the themes
and passages aren't quite so crowded.

the other Steve
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   "I try not to sound old and cynical, but it's hard to do that when
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