REVIEWS FOR JESUS OUT TO SEA

[poo-yie]

Thanks for the good words regarding JESUS OUT TO SEA.

Best,

Jim

Thank YOU, Jim, for the great stories. Your writing is akin to the paintings of Norman Rockwell and Frederic Remington - glimpses of the real Americana.

poo-yie

[jamesleeburke]

Thanks, Poo-Yie. That's high praise.

Best,

Jim

[Paul Robson]

Jim,
I couldn't wait for Jesus to come out in Britain so i've given myself a wee treat and got it from the States via Amazon.
I think that my children and their children will be talking about your work, it is that good. Touching , funny , wise , sad , all the bittersweet feelings of living get up and walk around in your marvellous characters.Well done sir.
All the best ,Paul

[jamesleeburke]

Thanks a million, Paul.

All the best,

Jim

[pee-lou]

I fininshed Jesus last night in bed Deb said why are you shaking your head? I said to this old has been bull rider the man is a frcikin literary genius I truly love your writing sir. Do you see any spinoff charcters for other books coming out of this?

[lbroome]

I agree with everyone else opinion about this different flavor book, but I'm just finishing "Water People", so I have a few more stories to go to digest it all.

Thing is, I didn't live in that time era, but I felt like I did. I do have a connection with it somehow. I'm sure others do also. Thats the genius of your writing style Jim, it pulls the reader into the story and makes em part of it. Don't ask me how I come up with my thoughts on this. I just was SO HAPPY, Bobby Joe made amends with Skeeter.

I'm reading "Texas City, 1947" right now. My Dad had rheumatic fever at 14 years old and spent 9 months in bed reading lots of books. But I don't think nobody put a silver dime around his neck as a gris gris or talisman.

I didn't write this as a spoiler for anyone, just a hint that its another outstanding JLB work of literary art. Later, Lonnie

[pee-lou]

Lonnie I could not agree with you more. When you read the stories/books it seems you are almost transported by visualzation to the time and place of the story. I as well was hoping amends would be made between BJ/Skeeter, and I thought the same about the rhuematic fever my dad also contracted it and for a year he was bed ridden and paralyzed from it I dont' know if ma ma sent him a dime on a string though...very possible. All of this is wierd but definetly cool...... great pull you in writing.

[lbroome]

Now I have chills running over me spine Pee-lou. You and I have had some of the same connections of the past. Now, if you tell me you had your two front teeth busted out from riding a bull, that'll just beat all. I wasn't no pro or in an arena, just showing off with a bunch of Florida cowboys laughin at me the whole time. LB

[pee-lou]

Lonnie no front teeth, almost though they saved them but I lost a few on the left side I got hung up in houston in 1984 got knocked out on 014 a big white charbray cross 1800lbs of bucking SOB, owned by the late (as of last week) Jim Shoulders and Neal Gay's rafter G rodeo. He busted me up bad Leon Coffee save my life and got me out. I rodeoed all over Florida

[jamesleeburke]

Thanks to Lonnie and Pee-loo and the others for the good words about JESUS OUT TO SEA. Several of you mentioned rodeo-ing. Have you read BITTERROOT? It introduces the character Wyatt Dixon, and includes one scene at a Bitterroot Valley rodeo that I think is one of the best I have ever written, although no one except my wife Pearl ever seemed to take note of it.

I hope to get "The Night Johnny Ace Died" on the screen. I think it would make a swell film about the era. It looks like BITTERROOT may be made into a television pilot and a series. I think it could be a fine one, although I suspect I have a bias.

Best to all,

Jim