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Little Star

(17,055 posts)
Thu May 16, 2013, 06:15 PM May 2013

I keep thinking of pulling out my old John D. MacDonald...

Travis McGee series and re-reading it again. I loved that series! I've already read it 2 or 3 times.
In chronological order:
(1964) The Deep Blue Good-by
(1964) Nightmare in Pink
(1964) A Purple Place for Dying
(1964) The Quick Red Fox
(1965) A Deadly Shade of Gold
(1965) Bright Orange for the Shroud
(1966) Darker than Amber
(1966) One Fearful Yellow Eye
(1968) Pale Gray for Guilt
(1968) The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
(1969) Dress Her in Indigo
(1970) The Long Lavender Look
(1971) A Tan and Sandy Silence
(1973) The Scarlet Ruse
(1973) The Turquoise Lament
(1975) The Dreadful Lemon Sky
(1978) The Empty Copper Sea
(1979) The Green Ripper
(1981) Free Fall in Crimson
(1982) Cinnamon Skin
(1985) The Lonely Silver Rain

Does anyone else ever get a yearning to re-read some of the oldies but goodies over again?

Then there's Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar series with his friend's Win and Esperanza that also keep passing through my mind. Maybe I'll haul out my bins of books this spring and do some re-reading.

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I keep thinking of pulling out my old John D. MacDonald... (Original Post) Little Star May 2013 OP
I dip into Parker's Spenser series getting old in mke May 2013 #1
Fantastic series..... dhill926 May 2013 #2
I read them all pscot May 2013 #3
I read the Travis McGee series several times, once I found out about it. McDonald lived on Nay May 2013 #4

getting old in mke

(813 posts)
1. I dip into Parker's Spenser series
Thu May 16, 2013, 06:34 PM
May 2013

every couple of years. I don't re-read it all, but maybe three or four per iteration

pscot

(21,037 posts)
3. I read them all
Thu May 16, 2013, 07:01 PM
May 2013

back in the day. Wonderful stuff. Though I sometimes wondered about McGee's taste in women.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
4. I read the Travis McGee series several times, once I found out about it. McDonald lived on
Sat May 18, 2013, 10:45 PM
May 2013

Siesta Key, FL, and I went to college nearby. When I found that out, I read all his books. Loved them.

Did you know he wrote one science fiction novel? I liked it, too. "Ballroom of the Skies" was the name of that book.

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