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The Convict and Other Stories
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4 out of 5 stars
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Change of Pace
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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In a startling departure, James Lee Burke has written an epic story of love, hate and survival set against the tumultuous background of the Civil War and Reconstruction. At the center of the tale are James lee Burke's own ancestors, Robert Perry, who comes from the slave-owning family of wealth and privilege, and Willy Burke, born of Irish immigrants, a poor boy who is as irreverent as he is brave and decent. Despite personal and political conflicts, both men join the Confederate Army, determined not to back down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Burke’s Best
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In this intense, fascinating story, Burke follows the lives of three young Louisiana men, each of whom finds himself in desperate circumstances. There's Avery Broussard, the last survivor of a family of once-prosperous land owners, who has a weakness for alcohol; J.P. Winfield, a poor singer and guitar player who rises to fame as a country music star, only to be destroyed by drug addiction; and Toussaint Boudreaux, a black longshoreman who moonlights as a heavyweight boxer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent early Burke ruined by terrible narration
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In this novel, Burke brings his brilliant feel for time and place to a stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s. Here Perry Woodson Hatfield James, a young man torn between family honor and the lure of seedy watering holes, must somehow survive the tempestuous journey from boyhood to manhood and escape the dark and atavistic heritage of the Cumberland Mountains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic!
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,520
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,124
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,115
New York Times best-selling author James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels began with this first hard-hitting entry in the series. In The Neon Rain, Detective Robicheaux fishes a prostitute's corpse from a New Orleans bayou and finds that no one, not even the law, cares about a dead hooker.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The perfect combination of author and narrator
- By S. Sand on 09-23-09
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The Lost Get-Back Boogie
- By: James Lee Burke
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 273
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 192
Released from prison after two years for manslaughter, Iry heads to Montana for a fresh start on a ranch owned by a prison buddy's father. He also hopes to nail down a song he's been working on, unable to get quite right. But soon new troubles bring tragic consequences, and it will take a lot more than a soulful tune to ease the pain.
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4 out of 5 stars
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- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4 out of 5 stars 31
In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast proves to be a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience, from love and sex to domestic abuse, to war and death and friendship.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Change of Pace
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White Doves at Morning
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 96
In a startling departure, James Lee Burke has written an epic story of love, hate and survival set against the tumultuous background of the Civil War and Reconstruction. At the center of the tale are James lee Burke's own ancestors, Robert Perry, who comes from the slave-owning family of wealth and privilege, and Willy Burke, born of Irish immigrants, a poor boy who is as irreverent as he is brave and decent. Despite personal and political conflicts, both men join the Confederate Army, determined not to back down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Burke’s Best
- By Verl on 04-18-18
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Half of Paradise
- By: James Lee Burke
- Narrated by: Mark Zeisler
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 100
In this intense, fascinating story, Burke follows the lives of three young Louisiana men, each of whom finds himself in desperate circumstances. There's Avery Broussard, the last survivor of a family of once-prosperous land owners, who has a weakness for alcohol; J.P. Winfield, a poor singer and guitar player who rises to fame as a country music star, only to be destroyed by drug addiction; and Toussaint Boudreaux, a black longshoreman who moonlights as a heavyweight boxer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent early Burke ruined by terrible narration
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- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4 out of 5 stars 131
In this novel, Burke brings his brilliant feel for time and place to a stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s. Here Perry Woodson Hatfield James, a young man torn between family honor and the lure of seedy watering holes, must somehow survive the tempestuous journey from boyhood to manhood and escape the dark and atavistic heritage of the Cumberland Mountains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic!
- By Dave on 04-09-13
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Heaven's Prisoners
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- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 705
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 541
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 536
Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of the Louisiana bayou. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life - and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception and homegrown crime.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Where is the unabridged version?
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The Cold Dish
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,445
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Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Dry Bones, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. Johnson draws on his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, full of memorable characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Your Ordinary Western Novel (Series)
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Exit Wounds
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4 out of 5 stars 37
Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what I was looking for.
- By Andy on 10-03-19
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Lay Down My Sword and Shield
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- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,258
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,026
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,014
Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney Hackberry Holland yields to the myriad urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat - and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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sets the stage for all of JLB's books
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 371
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 323
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Story4 out of 5 stars 320
Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets. Among them is Vernon Smother's son, Lucas, a now-teenaged boy about whom few know the truth - Lucas is really Billy Bob's illegitimate son. When Lucas is arrested for murder, Billy Bob must confront the past and serve as the boy's criminal attorney. Billy Bob knows the propensity of the town, Deaf Smith, Texas, to make scapegoats out of the innocent and to exploit and sexually use the powerless.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Burke delivers withanother great mystery/hero!
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Wayfaring Stranger
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,930
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,674
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,670
It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when 16-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde’s stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding Addition to the Holland/Texas Saga
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Two for Texas
- By: James Lee Burke
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- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 391
This James Lee Burke novel, featuring Son Holland - the great-grandfather of Burke's Billy Bob Holland - as he flees a Louisiana prison camp with a Native American woman and a fellow prisoner in tow, is now available in audio.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Good... and a bonus! Clete is here!
- By Tim on 01-04-13
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Screwball
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8,130
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,409
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,366
Before he was “Babe” or “The Sultan of Swat” or “The Great Bambino”, George Herman Ruth was just another teenage misfit at St. Mary’s School for Boys. But Ruth has something the other boys don’t, and when Baltimore Orioles manager Jack Dunn watches him throw a baseball over a building, Ruth gets the chance to punch his ticket out of the orphanage. All he has to do now is make the team.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Well that was horrible
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Open Season
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- By: C. J. Box
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,461
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Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way—is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As refreshing as sunrise in the mountains
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Dark of the Moon
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,598
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,373
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,357
Virgil Flowers kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First it was the army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport brought him into the BCA, promising him, "We'll only give you the hard stuff." He's been doing the hard stuff for three years now, but never anything like this.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Be ready for pretty descriptive sexual child abuse.
- By CDB on 07-03-18
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Red Metal
- By: Mark Greaney, Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV (USMC)
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,482
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,280
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,265
A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control over the world's hi-tech sector for generations to come. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy Pentagon job, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the commander of an American tank platoon....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent listen!
- By Jose G. Meras on 07-19-19
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Camino Island
- A Novel
- By: John Grisham
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- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 13,255
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,894
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Story4 out of 5 stars 11,872
Priceless F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts stolen in a daring heist; a young woman recruited to recover them, and a beach-resort bookseller who gets more than he bargained for - all in one long summer on Camino Island.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not happy
- By William on 06-08-17
Publisher's Summary
The collection no crime fiction fan should be without – the essential short stories of James Lee Burke
"America's best novelist" (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South – the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat -- the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast -- in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.
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- tolstoyscat
- 04-07-18
liked this
well read and masterfully written.i enjoy James Lee Burke's style of writing. I enjoy his books.
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- Dundas I. Flaherty
- 10-01-12
Didn't finish
Found this to be earlier work, not readable compared with Burke's mature work.Stopped reading after trying three stories and switched to Going After Cacciato, which is terrific. Liked a couple of Burke's more recent works, but can't read them too closely together or I fine a sameness in them.
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- Sue
- 09-18-12
Boring
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
No sense of a real story, just a collections of thoughts, to make this a 4 or 5 star it would need to be rewritten.
Has The Convict and Other Stories turned you off from other books in this genre?
I love James Burke but this was really bad. I will still buy his books but not if they are not part of a series.
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
The narration was fine, not great, but not bad.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Not that I could fine, I tried listening to most of the stories but found it hard to get through any of them. I kept hoping the next story would be better but did not find this to be the case.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-02-12
I like the full novels better.
What did you like best about The Convict and Other Stories? What did you like least?
I like the full JLB novels better. The short stories were harder to follow. My bookmark was not working well on this audio and kept jumping around.
EXCEPTION: the story "Hack" made me cry. My 94 year old dad recently passed.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Toni R.
- 09-15-12
Haven't read a a Jee Burke I didn't like
reconized a few things shortly used in other books, but this man can tell a story and take me to New Orleans just by opening his book. Where ever he describes that is where I am at. Can't waiit for next book.
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