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Finished reading EVERY CLOAK ROLLED IN BLOOD by James Lee Burke. Not my favourite of his books. Reminded me of Stephen King: lots of supernatural. 1/
And not always believable...but damn, the man writes like a poet. I feel like at 85, he's pushing the genre as he contemplates his own mortality. 2/
Like seeing Lawren Harris move from icebergs to abstracts, or Picasso from recognizable human forms to those that are harder to parse. It's a short book, with lots of blank pages, far more than usual.3/
I would guess with the end of chapter blank pages and a long Author's Note, the actual story runs about 250 pages. Which is short for sure, particularly for this author. 4/
My pet peeve is the same one I have in a lot of movies with aging actors: sexual relationships with younger women. In this book, it's a 50 year age gap and I didn't find it remotely believable. 5/
He uses the same device in RAIN GODS and FEAST OF FOOLS, but it works in those books. Not here. He tries to make the elderly protagonist seem less elderly than he is, but again, it didn't work for me. 6/
In the other two books, it's a young female colleague who pushes the reluctant older man into a relationship. Here, the 85 year old instigates things. The 50 year age difference is a little creepy. 7/
The book is represented as his most autobiographical to date. I felt like it was an elderly man's fantasy to a certain extent, and also an author who knows he's coming to the end of his own mortality, trying to imagine what's on the other side.///
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