What with all the traveling and work lately I haven't had much time for anything, but of course whenever I go anywhere I bring a book with me. I just finished Slam the Big Door by John D. MacDonald before and grabbed another MacDonald from my stack. (The stack is a about two dozen MacDonald paperbacks from the 50s and 60s I purchased as a lot from Ebay awhile back.) This one was Where is Janice Gantry?
Like any MacDonald book this was a great read. A few interesting points about it. The book opens in Horseshoe Bay, the same setting from the book I just read by MacDonald. I put it down to the writer just wanting to use the same locale. About halfway through the book he mentions a car crash that happened in the previous book. Neither book relayed on anything from either book but MacDonald let the reader know the books were taking place in the same world.
This book, the main character is a prototype for his more popular series character Travis McGee. Besides McGee he has a sidekick character for the main character Sam Brice that I see as insipartion for Meyer, his sidekick for McGee. Brice is far from McGee's tarnished knight but in him you can see the inklings of the character that would become McGee.
At less than two hundred pages this was a quick read and very enjoyable. This was written in the early sixties when MacDonald was cranking out his paperback thrillers, but even with the quanity he was producing he was writing quality books.
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I travel with books too. It's one way to stay off the internet.
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