SPOILERS!! THE GLASS RAINBOW ending and plot discussed here

[tamprecision]

James mate just finished the glass rainbow and it was a cracker! love it love it love it

I am actually geuinely saddened by the loss of dave and clete, i will miss them

They might survive so we'll wait and see

However if they have gone on to the great gig in the sky I would like to throw in a MASSIVE shout of support for the idea of some prequels about the bobsey twins as younger men

DO it please jim ! I'll buy them all. (I'll buy them all regardless)

[Javajan]

I finished reading it about two weeks ago and loved the ending. I'm not sure what it means, but if Dave and Clete are dead, what a way to go. I got the book out of the library here where it's often 105. I had to go to a distant branch because so many were "missing" near us, which means, I think, people are reading it in the library to catch the air conditioning and storing it overnight somewhere in the stacks. This a great review. Anyway, I wonder, too, if the women characters aren't going to take up Dave and Clete's absence? I could see Helen being a main character, guided by Clete and Dave from the boat, as it were.

I didn't get around to saying anything about it because I checked out Alafair Burke's Dead Connection, which is the first of hers I've read. Like Glass Rainbow, my husband caught me leaving the light on late at night, reading "with my eyes closed" as he calls it when I fall asleep with the book open. From New York, Ellie phones Dave in New Iberia. What a hoot. Anything could happen.

[jamesholden]

Simply put...If JLB has killed off our heros will the new Burke i.e. Alafair, take over as the writer in the Burke household? I recently noticed Alafair in the Kobo list of books. Has anyone read her works yet? Is there literary similarities to her fathers?

[CaribooRose]

HI James
I've read all but one of Alafair's work and thoroughly enjoyed them ... Samantha Kincaid is a District Attorney in Portland, OR ... and Ellie Hatcher is a police officer in New York. There are three novels for each character. I haven't read Long Gone ... And Now Framed for Murder yet ... but am surely looking forward to it!!

Regards!!
Rose

[MontanaNative]

Well, I just finished the book.... I really don't know what to say. I hope that Dave and Clete will be back for another round, but if not, at least they went out with their boots on!

[TomTeryl]

I didn't get a strong impression that they died.-But i wonder if a writer ever changed the backdrop from earth to purgatory while keeping the main characters..-Now that would be a doozy.

[Trish]

The only thing I can say is "Please Mr Burke, don't left Dave die". I Love Dave and Clete!

[jr_stewart]

I finished the book last Sunday. On Wednesday, a good friend and I spent an entire lunch talking about the dilemma ...alive or not, series to go on or not ... it was lively. JLB will do what he wants and whatever that might be is okay with me. All of the characters in the series have become part of my extended family. That is as rare as a politician with a conscience. There are loose threads that flap towards the vacuum of the ending ... where are Molly and Alf? Does the evil lesbian-dominatrix shoot them too? I mean, might not she be the real villain? As far as I'm concerned, these are all happy problems. Like the rest of life, sometimes we're not supposed to know, the mystery stays a mystery. I'm okay with that. I have yet to go back and reread the last several pages and am really looking forward to that.

[PAParrothead]

While re-reading The Glass Rainbow, I checked the Wikipedia page for JLB. Under the Dave Robicheaux series, there appears a book entitled "Creole Belle" with a publishing year of 2012. And since we all know that everything that you read on the Internet is 100% accurate [ ], we can only hope!!

[Lw]

While re-reading The Glass Rainbow, I checked the Wikipedia page for JLB. Under the Dave Robicheaux series, there appears a book entitled "Creole Belle" with a publishing year of 2012. And since we all know that everything that you read on the Internet is 100% accurate [ ], we can only hope!!

Saw this tonight on Simon and Schuster, hope I'm not spoiling anything!!!


Creole Belle
A Dave Robicheaux Nov

Description
Dave Robicheaux is back, in a gorgeously written, visceral thriller by James Lee Burke, "the heavy weight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed" (Michael Connelly).James Lee Burke has been called "Faulknerian," "brilliant," and "an absolute master" by publications ranging from Harper's magazine to the Los Angeles Times. For five decades, he has crafted unforgettable novels that combine breathtaking language, intense action, and memorable characters.
Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow, ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, not quite sure what is real and what may be the effects of the painkillers he's been taking. A Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song "Creole Belle" on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister, who later turns up inside a block of ice floating in the Gulf. Meanwhile, there has been an oil well blowout on the Gulf, threatening the cherished environs of the bayous.
Creole Belle is James Lee Burke at his very best, with beloved series hero Dave Robicheaux leading the charge against the destruction of both the land and the people he has sworn to protect.