alt.literature

On Oct 9, 9:35 am, Robert Cohen wrote:
> If you want to read & then maybe do a paper about an enjoyable
> American contemporary writer, I hereby refer the detective fiction
> works of Burke.
>
> To double the pleasure, I listen to the available audio books, read by
> actor(s) in tune with his New Orleans police and parish sheriff
> culture in unusally descriptive seemingly authentic language, which is
> understandable to English speakers nevertheless particularly if one
> likes dialect English mixed with some colorful mis-pronounceable
> French names.*
>
> This referral or tout of Burke includes a recent Katrina-related novel
> in which angry insights aren't hedged by bean-bags.
>
> *I had two years plus of college French, though forever find it
> difficult to pronounce.
>
> would ya believe that Robert Penn Warren has been trumphed ?

finally, wife and i agree on something

Burke's LAST CAR TO ELYSIAN FIELDS is maximal pleasureable auditing/
reading experience

but, a-hole, is it "good literature"

if it isn't, then "good literature" is unimportant to my life