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Title: Scarlet Ruse by John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0-449-22477-5 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 09 March, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Awesome McGee
Comment: If you like Travis Mcgee, you'll like this one.
Rating: 4
Summary: Better than buttered popcorn!
Comment: Number fourteen in the Travis McGee series, and I continue to devour the things like they were popcorn, even though I want to slow down and examine how MacDonald can be so amazingly readable page after page. Maybe a MacDonald novel is like light in that famous physics conundrum (Michaelson-Morley?)--to define light, one must "stop" it in its tracks, and then it isn't light anymore, i.e. the observation of it affects it.
This time McGee is trying to recover some stamps that have gotten switched for cheaper versions. Along the way McGee makes his typical observations about life and politics, adds a few more scars to his battered body, and becomes a little wiser.
Rating: 4
Summary: Of stamps, women, and introspection.
Comment: Travis McGee embarks on another of his trademark "salvage" missions involving a fortune in missing rare stamps. McGee's ruminations on people, relationships, human aspirations, money, politics, etc. are amusing social commentary, albeit thirty years later. Some of the observations of life in the '70s seem dated, but not enough to matter. Beyond this slight quibble, there is the vicious killer, and the complex mystery of the missing stamps. In addition, we have Mary Alice McDermit, a dark-haired giant of a woman with a healthy sex-drive and a troubled past. The lovable Meyer is present, still pontificating on economics and human foibles. As mystery-suspense novels go, the Travis McGee series is a perennial favorite. John D. MacDonald stresses introspection and character development rather than blood and thunder action. The typical Florida setting is exotic. Altogether, good lightweight reading material for summer vacations or anytime. ;-)
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Title: Turquoise Lament by John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0449224783 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 09 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Long Lavender Look by John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0449224740 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 09 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dreadful Lemon Sky by John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0449224791 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Empty Copper Sea by John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0449224805 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Green Ripper by John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0449224813 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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