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A Private Cathedral
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
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- The J Word
- 18-03-2021
too much quasi religion
disappointing outing from a long-time favourite. The characters and locations are great without the necromancy
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- Michael
- 20-12-2020
Not My Favourite James Lee Burke Book
I didn't go for the supernatural component and found the story so implausible that I lost interest.
I also found the conversations incomprehensible at times.
Will Patton is as good as ever though.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-11-2020
Brilliant
The best audiobook I’ve listed to in my 5+ years of being a regular consumer. Great story, great characters with a flawless and brave performance from Will Paton. I’m very happy to have found this series, as this is a new one for me.
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- Mark
- 15-09-2020
Hallucinogenic Ghosts in the Mist
I've read and loved all of Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels and generally speaking I like a linear chronology so this book is like Lee Child and his "Reacher' series or Philip Kerr's 'Bernie Gunter' series which don't follow a linear time chronology. That's not a big deal but it's a stretch to suspend disbelief enough to buy the galleons in the mist and time travelling evil killers on the loose unless you either believe all that Louisiana mysticism or think like me that Dave and Clete are suffering the effects of alcohol, LSD or other mind altering substances. There is an obsession with death, religion, superstition, music, sex and violence which are all ingredients of David Simon's excellent 'Treme' but this is a different gumbo altogether. I loved the book for its narration, the gorgeous purple prose and the relationship between Dave and Clete but I was less convinced by the plot. It came across as Burke riffing on old and familiar themes in a near steam of conscious narrative. If you love Burke's work you'll go along with this and find it enjoyable enough but new readers ought not to start here.
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- bwanasafari
- 03-09-2020
James Lee Burke Unsuccessfully Going Mystical
We all loved Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels for their picturesque descriptions of life in Louisiana and for his mature approach to detective mysteries.
In this book, Burke has gone all-out weird and, unless you are prone to old style Catholic mysticism and superstition, there is hardly a credible passage in the book.
Who cares who the perp is when you have scaly monsters and sweet angels to choose from?
To be honest, this book has caused me to reconsider all of Burke's work. I find myself exhausted with his obsessions with alcoholism, Catholicism and human frailty. His descriptions of alcoholism, for example, are more akin to tripping on acid than the reality of needing alcohol to function. Delerium tremens is a risk alcoholics take when they abstain - not while they are still drinking.
And I'm thoroughly over the ghosts in the mist, the dry lightning and green skies.
Disastrous.
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- D. Munro
- 29-08-2020
Very disappointing
I have listened to all of Robicheaux books available on Audible and read some that aren’t . This is the first one I gave up on before the end. All of the others have been excellent but, for me, the recurrent introduction of supernatural and ‘time travel’ elements to the plots detracts from the experience. In this book one of the characters is a straightforward ghoul from the 17th century and there are appearances of medieval galleons here and there. These things meandering in an out of the plot made the whole thing completely implausible. As usual the narration by Will Patton was excellent and the Clete Purcell / Robicheaux exchanges were up to the usual high standard.
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- E.Chapman
- 16-02-2021
Come in number 9, your time is up.
Have been an avid fan of all of JLBs work since 2002, this book though is just too odd, time travel, spectres and just incongruous plotting and characters.
It is set out of time when DR and CP are younger than they were in the last DR story but it just adds to the general confusion of the book.
I never thought I would say this but think DR should be quietly discontinued.
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- Mahseer
- 13-09-2020
JLB never disappoints
Great story, as Clete and Dave confront existential questions about evil. Very topical and relevant to the current administration in USA. The language is as rich and lyrical as always and the narration is superb.
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- dennis
- 12-09-2020
My favourite JLB so far!
Love JLB, especially the Robicheaux stories with big Clete Purcell. This one has a great storyline, it’s brutal and funny, holding the listeners attention every second. Will Patton’s narration is bang on, perfect for the characters portrayed. Hoping for more in this amazing series!
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-09-2020
Not one of the better Robicheaux novels
I’m a big fan of the series but didn’t really enjoy this mixture of the supernatural, time travel and Clete and Dave. It’s a story that takes place after Bootsie but before Molly. Not the best story but still well written.
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- Ms. S. J. McReynolds
- 31-08-2020
A ghoul too far
Will Paton's excellent, characterful narration is the saving grace of this book. I am a JLB junkie, having read all of the Robicheaux saga, but this is below par. The deus ex machina role of a time-tripping , medieval bad man compromises the gritty reality you expect: too much fantasy, not enough exploration of motives. And just how old are Dave and Clete now? Dave's fatal attraction to and for women is overplayed - as is Clete's propensity for violence. Finally, the underlying theme of "Antifa" revisionist history almost presages the advent of BLM.
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- Rose
- 21-08-2020
Always breathtakingly brilliant.
Another exceptional story, written in Burke’s lyrical and individual style. The narrator could not be more suited to reading drama of this calibre.
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- AMcT
- 15-08-2020
Very like the others.
I’ve read and listened to several of these novels. This one was seemed a bit ‘tired’ and repeated at lot of the same ideas and action as the others.
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