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Neesy

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not_nadine said:
Still reading Joe Hill's Heart Shaped Box. Excellent.

(it is NOT a romance story, despite the title) :icon_eek::love_heart:


Mr. Larry, if I have read that Koontz - I have forgotten it. Say sorry, someone will be able to tell you
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It looks like KRF replied up above (I mean on the previous page) - I just had not gotten to that post yet :a24:
 
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Been reading a pile of John D MacDonald...big box of them or big enough. He was cranking them out at one time...some real good stories there. A few clunkers. He even wrote a sci-fi or two. Wine of the Dreamers is a blast...has that possession-motif going for it. Even though he's mostly sold with the Travis McGee stories...every paperback I have says "creator of the Travis McGee Series"...I've only read one of those...out of 30+...and all save one have been good...a few clunky short stories in a couple collections, but he was cranking them out, too...said he had 30 out-the-door allatime...some O-Henry finishes...but that's to be expected and really there's nothing wrong with that I guess. Who likes ice cream? Say the word and I'll get my tape and marker.
 
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Walter Oobleck said:
Been reading a pile of John D MacDonald...big box of them or big enough. He was cranking them out at one time...some real good stories there. A few clunkers. He even wrote a sci-fi or two. Wine of the Dreamers is a blast...has that possession-motif going for it. Even though he's mostly sold with the Travis McGee stories...every paperback I have says "creator of the Travis McGee Series"...I've only read one of those...out of 30+...and all save one have been good...a few clunky short stories in a couple collections, but he was cranking them out, too...said he had 30 out-the-door allatime...some O-Henry finishes...but that's to be expected and really there's nothing wrong with that I guess. Who likes ice cream? Say the word and I'll get my tape and marker.
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What I mean is if you want a box of John D MacDonald's give me a holler but only if you want to read them...no strings. Exam this summer, day after the 4th.
 
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visited The Book Room, my fav. second hand bookshop in Auckland, bought An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, (A Place in the Sun on film, I think), am just loving the grunty, literal, gritty, everyday, talk to the reader, shock style. An awesome, honest, scary, emotional book!!

Came away with a stack of books actually, they had a five for a dollar sale, so went a little mad. Bought some real golden oldies, such as the Tempest, plus stack of old style seventies fiction. Just where will I find the time!! In between essays, I will!!!
 
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ghost19 said:
Excellent book sir. If you like it, I'd recommend "Comanche Moon". It's a prequel to Lonesome Dove and is just as good or better imho. There is also a sequel to Lonesome Dove called "Streets of Laredo". Not quite as good as the first two, but it completes the trilogy and it worth reading. Have you ever seen the TV series Lonesome Dove?
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There's Dead Man's Walk, too, about Gus and Call when they were young Rangers. I'd agree with your assessment of Comanche Moon and Streets of Laredo. Loved the first a little less than Lonesome Dove, but it was damned good; Streets of Laredo, not so much. I'd put Dead Man's Walk with that one.
 
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skimom2 said:
There's Dead Man's Walk, too, about Gus and Call when they were young Rangers. I'd agree with your assessment of Comanche Moon and Streets of Laredo. Loved the first a little less than Lonesome Dove, but it was damned good; Streets of Laredo, not so much. I'd put Dead Man's Walk with that one.
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Have you read the whole series, skimom2? Do you recommend reading the series in order they were published or chronologically?
 
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skimom2 said:
I've never read him, but you make me want to :)
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He has written some incredibly good yarns...and I've a box of about 30+ paperbacks. He does have a few titles that cannot be placed under a genre label. He nails character, dialogue...he is, alas, rarely funny but he is capable of that and he nails that. The guy was a writing machine. He does offend some ladies. But in All These Condemned he has a strong, too strong, woman character...story set and written in the 50s...and this woman is a shark. And when the shark bites...da-da-da-da! She drowns...or something. That's the story. I'm not going to do anything with them when I'm done...I might keep The Deceivers and Wine of the Dreamers and possibly Please Write for Details...or not. The Deceivers is about a married man, married woman, and they have an affair...MacDonald covers all the bases and I think it is 5-star. But like everything, some like vanilla, others won't settle for anything less than Rocky Road. And too...he has some bad. His precursors to Travis McGee...couple shorts about Park Falkner...those are clunkers. Where does there exist in the world someone like that? I do have one McGee story, the first...and that is the only one I've read...Deep Blue Goodbye or something like that. The McGee stories have a color in the title. He was also concerned about "environmental" matters...Flash of Green...not a McGee story, is about fillin in a bay in Florida, nefarious contractors...like me... :) Wine of the Dreamers is a great sci-fi story...has this possession-theme going for it, and those I like. One thing that drives me nuts is that he was marketed, almost, as a crotch-novelist...you got all these dames on the covers, spiked heels, looking over their shoulder. Just say the word say the word as the song has it.
 
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