Re: RARA-AVIS: John D. MacDonald
Greg Swan (swan@primenet.com)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:36:04 -0700 (MST)
Since you've read all the Travis McGee novels, I'd suggest A
Bullet for
Cinderella. Bullet and the first McGee novel, Deep Blue
Goodbye, share a
similar theme. In some ways, reading Bullet is like reading the
same
novel as Deep Blue Goodbye, but without McGee. Bullet is
noirish and far
more violent. The prose is spare and to-the-point, rather than
the more
meandering and florid style found in the McGee novels. (I'm
guessing the
spare prose style was probably due to the dictates of Carroll,
who I think
was the editor at Gold Medal at the time Bullet was written.)
Mark Sullivan
>
> I was in a used bookstore today that had a load of
John D. MacDonald
> books. It was qutie intimidating. I have read all of
the Travis
> McGees, but the only non-Travis I've read is One
Monday We Killed Them
> All. Any suggestions on a few of the best to start
with? Thanks.
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