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Title: Darker Than Amber by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0-449-22446-5 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Best of the Series
Comment: I've read almost all of the Travis M series and I believe this is the best one of the lot (Dreadful Lemon Sky and Dress Her in Indigo get very honorable mentions). The plot is a bit improbable but once you buy into it (hey a lot of Crazy stuff happens to Trav), this book really takes off. The real star is McGee and his insights into women and the dark recesses of the human mind. It's not real deep but deeper than your average paperback hero. If you don't like this one, you won't like the others.
Rating: 5
Summary: Darker... but not TOO dark
Comment: The late John D. MacDonald continues to impress new generations of mystery/thriller readers with his Travis McGee "color-title" series, more than three decades after he began it.
DARKER THAN AMBER isn't the first McGee adventure (that's The Deep Blue Good-Bye, and that's where serious new readers should begin), but it is one of the best and a long cut above most of MacDonald's competitors. Perhaps a bit "darker" than many of the 20 other McGee novels, AMBER isn't for faint hearts; but it also isn't merely excessive violence-for-violence-sake, either.
McGee, the "thinking person's private eye", is a self-styled "salvage expert" whose frequent salvage is a friend's soul... What a guy: tough, tender, fearless and intelligent all at the same time! (With a unique and lovable sidekick, Meyer, supporting casts of fascinating characters, and very well realized South Florida and Mexican locales thrown in for good measure: a real "find".)
As to the possibilities of an upcoming McGee film series (AMBER already was filmed once, starring Rod Taylor), I'd love to hear more: an exciting possibility!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Travis McGee novel.
Comment: The Travis McGee series is a very extensive (21 books) series by John D. MacDonald; the main character is a delightful personality, something of a cross between a standard hero and a con man antihero, and the books are all well-written and enjoyable, something of a cross between action-adventure and detective-mystery. There are certain similarities between the plots of the books, but there are generally enough differences to keep them from being truly formulaic.
The books are all capable of standing on their own; a new reader can start with any one of them without feeling that he is missing anything, and this book is a perfectly good place to start, although it is the seventh written. The stories were set in the contemporary world, and are thus a bit dated now as they were written in the sixties and seventies, but this book is less jarringly so than some of the others.
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Title: Bright Orange for the Shroud by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0449224449 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0449224600 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: One Fearful Yellow Eye by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0449224589 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: A Deadly Shade of Gold by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0449224422 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Purple Place for Dying by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0449224384 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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