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  <title><![CDATA[Rain Gods: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>Another gritty, thrilling Burke mystery with a brand new character: Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland, cousin of beloved character Billy Bob Holland.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[James Lee Burke]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 15 05:28:27 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best of Burke's books, and that's saying a tremendous amount.  This man is the single best writer of &quot;thriller&quot; type novels, because they're so much more than that.  His prose is elegant, and his plots all-consuming.  I dare you to put one of his Dave Robicheaux (or any ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70779448">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 22 04:32:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[James Lee Burke is an author whose canvass is paper as he paints stories with words! <br/><br/>While immense in the story one can visualize the settings and characters. James Lee Burke’s bad guys and gals are so bad that if you’re deeply engrossed in the book and someone knocks on your door or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75349835">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74447647">
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 13 18:20:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 13 18:38:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love every book James Lee Burke writes but this one was4 stars to me rather than 5 because I was going crazy waiting for Pete and Vikki to make it to safety or to get killed.  You'll meet them both - the decent people who get mixed up in some really awful stuff due to a combination of youth and in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74447647">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Sep 09 06:54:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[James Lee Burke is a brilliant writer.  It doesn't matter what genre, the man can paint a picture with words so lush that he takes the reader to the center of his world.  <br/><br/>In RAIN GODS he leaves Dave Robicheaux in Louisiana and takes up with a Hack Holland, a Texas sheriff who has as much...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70582306">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69498249">
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 30 18:21:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 30 18:24:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[HARD PRINT - <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://theleadmiamibeach.com/2009/082809/HardPrint.html" title="http://theleadmiamibeach.com/2009/082809/HardPrint.html">http://theleadmiamibeach.com/2009/082809...</a><br/><br/>Let’s Get Biblical<br/><br/>James Lee Burke Brings Down the Wrath of Rain Gods<br/><br/>By John Hood<br/><br/>“It’s better that some people don’t live. They should be taken before their souls are forfeit. That means som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69498249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68272502">
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Burke, James Lee.  RAIN GODS (2009).  ****.  Once again, the author demonstrates his ability to describe scenes, thoughts, and actions in the most poetic manner that you will be able to find from any author writing today.  His language, even when describing mayhem and pure evil, sings from the page....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68272502">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65085072">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 26 23:51:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read everything by James Lee Burke. In this book he is a painter rather than a writer. Watch for the descriptions of the landscapes and sunsets and how they become metaphors of the story. Also his character descriptions are surreal and immediate. <br/><br/>I have not finished the book, I give it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65085072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64448383">
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 21 18:49:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[After getting a mysterious phone call from a distraught witness, rural Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland makes a grisly discovery: the bodies of nine young Thai women who were murdered while being smuggled into the country as prostitutes and drug mules. In the aftermath of this slaughter, the witness ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64448383">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77937421">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 22 01:32:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not your regular James Lee Burke character but an aging town sheriff with more in common with King Lear than a mythic Wyatt Earp.  Burke's  protagonists are usually pursued by demons -- often gathered up in past  imperialist wars -- and with  Sheriff Hackberry Holland the dead hand of the Korean War...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77937421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67477821">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 15 06:09:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 15 06:32:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love James Lee Burke for his beautifully (and sometimes horrifyingly) descriptive writing and for his complex characters. The villains, though scary, nearly always have a backstory, and the heroes are scrupulously honest and dedicated to their own vision of justice, which isn't often the same as y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67477821">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66374297">
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though it seems that protagonist Sheriff Hackberry Holland has starred in previous works by Burke, RAIN GODS reads as a complete and detailed story of on its own. RAIN GODS follows ex-Soldier Pete as he lands himself in trouble--along with his girlfriend Vikki--with some big-time criminals. The two ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66374297">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67426793">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[James Lee Burke takes all his previous novels and distills them into a masterpiece of tension, moral uncertainty, conflict, slaughter, bravery, and world-weary resolve.  Each character is precisely drawn with pungent smells, vivid colors, and distinct feelings.  And, as is the norm for any Burke nov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67426793">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65553748">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Critics have nothing but praise for Burke's latest Hackberry Holland novel. An author with a deep regional feel for parts of the United States -- including Texas and Louisiana -- Burke aptly portrays &quot;&quot;a range war in Southwest Texas -- a pitched battle between gangs of displaced bad ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65553748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75220967">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like many of his fans, I read everything James Lee Burke writes.  I am of two minds about Rain God.  As always, Burke's characterizations and settings are superb as always.  On the other hand, the plot drags, usually because the author stops to detail something or someone.  Burke spends too much tim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75220967">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66607807">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Burke has been good from the jump, and he keeps getting better, esp. with the excellent Will Patton reading the audiobook version. There are passages in this novel that out do Cormac McCarthy for bleak, deep, soul-scorching prose. His hero detective Holland is a reformed drunk (surprise) and womaniz...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66607807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74188270">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Oct 11 14:08:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Always like a good JL Burke book.  He can delve into the character of misfits and lawmen like no other.  In this book, he's in Texas on the Rio Grande border and San Antonio.  His usual milieu is southern LA and New Orleans but in this book, the LA characters have moved over to Galveston and central...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74188270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65053835">
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't sure what to expect from this book when I began reading it, but I certainly found myself pleasantly surprised with it.  The author can really tell a story, allowing the reader to &quot;know&quot; the characters and be in the setting with them. I think the main idea of the book was the simpl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70918349">more...</a>]]></body>
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