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Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Title: One Fearful Yellow Eye Series detective: Travis McGee No. in series: 8 (of 21) Year of publication: 1966 Type of mystery: Blackmail and other nefarious business Type of investigator: Private detective Setting & time: Chicago, Illinois, and Florida, USA; 1960s Story: Travis McGee responds to a call for help from his former lover, Glory Doyle Geis, and flies up to Chicago to meet her. Her brain...
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Other “forgotten books” being touted in the blogosphere today: Sir, You Bastard, by G.F. Newman; A Game for Heroes, by James Graham; Old Bones, by Aaron Elkins; The Blue Edge of Midnight, by Jonathon King; The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything, by John D. MacDonald; and--huh?--Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories, by Ian Fleming. In addition, forgotten books promoter Patti
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Foma* (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Books Bought Soft Touch by John D. MacDonald (Dell First Edition K116) Cry Hard, Cry Fast by John D. MacDonald ( Popular Giant G271) Wine of The Dreamers by John D. MacDonald (Fawcett Gold Medal R1994) If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Books Read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins The Omnivore’s...
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psychedelicatessen (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
"Captain Walker-Smith, one-time hero of the RAF, had a cold, gray eye, an arrogant mustache, and a manner of speech so incomprehensible that one was led to wonder whether perhaps the mustache grew on the inside as well as the outside." -John D. MacDonald, Please Write for Details
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Foma* (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Books Bought See the Special Vacation Edition post Books Read Armageddon In Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut, introduction by Mark Vonnegut The Quick Red Fox by John D. MacDonald Comments For rock stars, death has always been a good career move. For writers, not so much. Often before the corpse is cold, the vultures are rifling through the file cabinet and the trash can for anything that can be sold as...
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bjkeefe (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
John D. MacDonald While pitching the Travis McGee series to a friend via email, which was prompted by my paraphrasing Meyer's belief that the written word was the best way to convey complex ideas (said email and this blog not necessarily included), I had to look up a factoid (guess where I went ) and while browsing the page came across something I'd never heard of before: Unknown to most followers...
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Every summer house should have on its dusty potluck shelves, in among the Agatha Christie and the John D. MacDonald and the J. K. Rowling, a copy of Paul Collins’ Banvard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn’t Change the World (Picador, $15), an almanac of delusion, failure and heroically misguided enterprise. Isn’t vacation the best vantage from which to contemplate the sheer waste of epic...
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Living The Grand Life (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
I’ve long been a fan of private detective novels, especially series characters. . One of the first series I discovered was the adventurer Travis McGee by John D MacDonald. Travis lives in Florida on a houseboat. The locale adds to the enjoyment of the books. Readers can get a flavor of being somewhere else, in addition to a good story. Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe inhabits the California of the...
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Foma* (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Books Bought Fodor's Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha's Vineyard 2008 Books Read A Purple Place For Dying by John D. MacDonald Comments Months ago I began a resolution to re-read in order the Travis McGee novels of John D. MacDonald. I read The Deep Blue Good Bye way back in 2006 and then never followed through. I had hit a roadblock when I realized that I did not have a reading copy of the third book...
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Foma* (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
(click on image to read titles) I’ve mentioned before that I collect Kurt Vonnegut books , but I also collect vintage paperbacks from the 50s and 60s, mostly by John D. MacDonald. Like old wine these are very fragile commodities and too delicate to actually read. That means I have to buy reading copies of the books if I want to actually see the words. In some cases this presents problems. JDM did a...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Filed under: Comedy , Deals , Mystery & Suspense , 20th Century Fox If you happen to be a fan of mystery novels from the 60's and 70's, then the name John D. MacDonald probably rings a bell. If not, it looks like you are going to get the chance to get to know him, but on the big-screen instead. The Hollywood Reporter announced that Fox is planning on a feature film version of McDonald's The Deep Blue...
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Civic Center (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
The Florida-based crime novelist John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) was one of my favorite writers in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly his 21 Travis McGee novels which all had the name of a color in the title. The latter followed a fairly simple formula, which was having the sexy and cynical houseboat stud Travis Magee being hired to help somebody out of a jam, finding a woman in the process, and then...
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
I always enjoy the novels of Paul Levine. This one’s part of his Jack Lassiter series, and it's dedicated to John D. MacDonald, “whose tough love for an embattled Florida inspires us still.” From that, you might be able to guess that the book’s about the developers vs. the environment, and it is, but it also has some nice courtroom stuff (Lassiter’s an ex-Miami Dolphin turned lawyer), humor, CSI-type...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Until Fawcett Publications of New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut, brought out the first Gold Medal novel in 1950, paperback companies had usually played safe with tried-and-tested reprints. Gold Medal discovered or developed such seminal American popular fiction authors as John D. MacDonald, Richard S. Prather, and Stephen Marlowe.
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
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