I picked up an old friend tonight and started rereading a book I last read back in 1980 when we were both much younger. I read them all back then because I had the time, inclination and they all happened to be at the town library I walked past every single day on my way back from classes. What could be more convenient then that?
If you like good story telling and some elegant language shoe-horned into a series of mystery thriller books about an engaging salvage man, these are the right books. John D. MacDonald wrote a bunch of them and I am pretty sure I haven't reread them over the years not because they weren't good but because sometimes the ending was just too hard to take.
Another summer reading adventure!
7 comments:
“Free Fall in Crimson” was my favorite.
TNX 4 reminding me of a great, highly readable author I've enjoyed over the years
Fan of Travis McGee and his theory of retiring young but breaking that up with occasional "salvage" work. In addition to Free Fall into Crimson I'd also recommend The Green Ripper.
I've made my pilgrimage to Slip F-18 at Bahia Mar, Ft. Lauderdale. The Smarter Half, a native of Ft. Lauderdale, introduced me to these books. M-in-law worked for a time at Bahia Mar and met J.D. When he learned her son was deployed in the navy off Viet-nam he arranged for his publisher to send a big box of books (his own and others) to the ship. Class act.
An Electrician Chief found out that we qualified for a ship's library that was provided by some branch of the navy and we didn't have one so he wrote a letter. About a month later we received 1000 paperbacks from that part of the Navy. Only trouble was finding room on a tiny little ship for that many books in the middle of the Persian Gulf....
I want his truck.
I wanted the Busted Flush.
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