I think Mac Donald' best books were written in the fifties
and sixties,
before he was acclaimed by critics and a large number of
readers. Once he
had a successful formula, he was able to produce books that
would be best
sellers and probably well received by critics. You see the
same thing in
movies. The sequels to Beverly Hills Cop, Forty Eight Hours,
and of course,
the Rocky films were not different. They were just variations
on a theme.
Even his detractors seem to admit that once you started a
MacDonald book you
had to finish it, and then read all his books you could find.
If you had
been reading his books as they were published, the
similarities would be not
be so apparent.
Mark Blumenthal
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