--- James Rogers <
jetan@ionet.net> wrote:
>
> OPUTRAGEOUSLY SNIPPED
> On a lower class note, I would like to sing
the
> praises of John D.
> McDonald. As a youth, I sort of fit all of his
stuff
> into the catagory of
> Travis McGee, which is not bad but which
suffers
> from the vices that
> afflict series fiction in general.
> > simply shocking. His bitter
psychological
insight
> makes Ross McDonald seem
> like a guest on the Oprah show. His acute eye
for
> social class outstrips
> Chandler, no small feat, and reminds one of the
best
> of John O'Hara. At his
> own best, he strikes me as vastly better than
an
> over-rated literateuer
> like Simenon.
> I really mean all this crap, and I don't think
I
> am just puffing the
> guy. Don't we have any stone-cold MacDonald fans
on
> the list? And does
> anyone know how a Harvard grad came to crank
out
> cheap paperback originals?
>
I, and many other from the list, will agree about your praise
of John D, especially for his non- Travis novels. I even
teared at least two keyboards in trying to convince by
Internet ways that the earlier novels of John D are superior
to the other Mc Donald. Ross is the one that was artificially
put on the top of HB/Noir writers... He's only a very average
writer, that could fit only the second level of the hall of
fame
And unfortunately the present general public recognition of
John D was done based on the wrong novels (Travis)
Look into RA archives and you will find intersting earlier
discussions about this point.
Keep reading John D. older works!
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
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