We have moved to a new site!
This site will remain open only so you can copy anything you need, such as critques. Do so quickly because the old Forward Motion boards will soon disappear.
Are you ready for the new site? You must create a new login, but the chat login will remain the same as here for now. Click here to join us at the new
Forward Motion for Writers
See you there!
|
Mesg #648 |
"The Neon Rain, by James Lee Burke" |
|
Author |
colorbird     |
|
Author Info |
Member since Dec 01st 2005
5144 posts |
|
Date |
Mon Apr-19-10 04:28 PM |
Message
|
A while ago I saw a movie with Tommy Lee Jones called In the Electric Mist, so I started reading The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke, the first in the series. It's present-day noir, set in New Orleans. The main character is a Vietnam vet turned cop who's recovering from divorce and alcoholism, and stumbles into a federal conspiracy. It's the sort of thing to read on a lazy Saturday ... sort of like being in a swamp: poetic and slow punctuated by something terrifying and sudden like an alligator attacking. I liked it a lot. ~~~~~~Signature's Off~~~~~~
|
|
 | colorbird's reading log
[View all] , colorbird, Fri Jan-08-10 12:05 PM
| | |  Podkayne of Mars, Heinlein,
colorbird,
Jan 17th 2010, #1
 RE: Podkayne of Mars, Heinlein,
blzrgurl71,
Jan 21st 2010, #2
RE: Podkayne of Mars, Heinlein,
colorbird,
Jan 22nd 2010, #3
When We Were Colored, by Eva Rutledge,
colorbird,
Mar 16th 2010, #4
Time for the Stars, Heinlein,
colorbird,
Apr 02nd 2010, #5
Floreana, by Margret Wittmer,
colorbird,
Apr 03rd 2010, #6
Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman,
colorbird,
Apr 05th 2010, #7
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by NK Jemisin,
colorbird,
Apr 13th 2010, #8
The Neon Rain, by James Lee Burke,
colorbird,
Apr 19th 2010 #9
My Soul To Keep, by Tananarive Due,
colorbird,
Apr 24th 2010, #10
This is Paradise! by Hyok Kang,
colorbird,
Apr 24th 2010, #11
The Living Blood, by Tananarive Due,
colorbird,
Apr 25th 2010, #12
Blood Colony, by Tananarive Due,
colorbird,
May 21st 2010, #13
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley,
colorbird,
May 21st 2010, #14
| |
|
POST DISABLED 
