Comments on: The Tin Roof Blowdown, by James Lee Burke http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/the-tin-roof-blowdown-by-james-lee-burke/ A suggestion a day from the Williamsburg Regional Library Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:14:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Andrew http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/the-tin-roof-blowdown-by-james-lee-burke/#comment-935 Andrew Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:11:11 +0000 http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/the-tin-roof-blowdown-by-james-lee-burke/#comment-935 Sorry, doc, but I think you're fighting a lost battle. As one character in the book says something like, "You think they're going to rebuild a poor city?" Even if the city rebounds, it will never be the old New Orleans - which I visited many times, and loved. Jackson Square already looks pretty much like any suburban mall, and aside from the Bourbon Street girly bars, the roaring mouse will own everything else and turn it into a theme park. I don't dismiss the special place you have for your home, and I wish you and your neighbors nothing but the best, but there isn't anyone from DC to Baton Rouge who sees this as anything more than a chance to test their social Darwinist theories. Much as I'd love to see it come back, I'm extremely pessimistic that the money is ever going to flow to anyone who doesn't already have it, and I think Burke makes that point as well. And, truly, this is my own cynical opinion and has nothing to do with the library or the other good people who blog here. Sorry, doc, but I think you’re fighting a lost battle. As one character in the book says something like, “You think they’re going to rebuild a poor city?” Even if the city rebounds, it will never be the old New Orleans - which I visited many times, and loved. Jackson Square already looks pretty much like any suburban mall, and aside from the Bourbon Street girly bars, the roaring mouse will own everything else and turn it into a theme park. I don’t dismiss the special place you have for your home, and I wish you and your neighbors nothing but the best, but there isn’t anyone from DC to Baton Rouge who sees this as anything more than a chance to test their social Darwinist theories.

Much as I’d love to see it come back, I’m extremely pessimistic that the money is ever going to flow to anyone who doesn’t already have it, and I think Burke makes that point as well.

And, truly, this is my own cynical opinion and has nothing to do with the library or the other good people who blog here.

]]> By: doctorj http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/the-tin-roof-blowdown-by-james-lee-burke/#comment-921 doctorj Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:34:58 +0000 http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/the-tin-roof-blowdown-by-james-lee-burke/#comment-921 Don't write us off too soon. People in NOLA are fighting back because we know what a special home we have. http://ashleymorris.typepad.com/ashley_morris_the_blog/2007/07/friends-like-no.html Don’t write us off too soon. People in NOLA are fighting back because we know what a special home we have.

http://ashleymorris.typepad.com/ashley_morris_the_blog/2007/07/friends-like-no.html

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