tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post3798470821328695428..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: Forgotten Books: A Purple Place For Dying by John D. MacDonald; Charles RunyonEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-55439097416694410182015-05-03T03:01:31.259-07:002015-05-03T03:01:31.259-07:00Try the green ripper. Have it on audio book so can...Try the green ripper. Have it on audio book so can`t site a page number. I believe the concern was about 4 billion people and a world debt that was less the current us total,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-67886662306661176062010-12-21T07:13:59.824-08:002010-12-21T07:13:59.824-08:00"Too true. There has been, of one has been pa..."Too true. There has been, of one has been paying attention, plenty of warning about this. In one of the John D. MacDonald Travis McGee novels from the late 60s or early 70s, McGee's economist best friend Meyer opens the book musing about the global debt crisis.<br /><br />I've been trying to find which book this was so I could quote it and post it exactly with the date, but so far my Googling has let me down."<br />part of a comment by "Paranoid Pessimist December 20th, 2010 9:47 pm"<br /><br />here<br /><br /><br />http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/20-6<br /><br />Can someone help?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-70914609391836297662010-11-05T07:00:07.705-07:002010-11-05T07:00:07.705-07:00That's a good take on "Purple." I...That's a good take on "Purple." I've been thinking about it for a few days. I've only read "Purple" once and as I recall two things really bothered me about it - the insults yelled back and forth between McGee and the killers, and the rattlesnake part. Neither seemed very realistic to me - I had to go too far with the suspension of disbelief. But I'll go back and read it. I recall that I thought that the main female character/ McGee love interest was well-drawn.Ed Harrisonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-17272351466053067382010-10-27T20:23:45.133-07:002010-10-27T20:23:45.133-07:00A Purple Place For Dying is one of Dad's favor...A Purple Place For Dying is one of Dad's favorite MacDonald novels, Ed...and Pops is President of the JDMcD fan club (one look at the bookshelves in his office will attest to that). In fact, when I got serious about writing I asked him (much to his delight) which MacDonald I should start with. Without batting an eye he told me Purple Place For Dying and Darker Than Amber. The latter, by the way, has Dad's favorite opening sentence of any novel EVER. <br /><br />Dad also has a funny story about his editor trying to coax a blurb from MacDonald for The Fury way back when. MacDonald apparently wrote his editor a rather testy letter for sending such a "nihilistic" novel is way.<br /><br />As the story goes MacDonald did acknowledge The Fury as genius but refused to blurb it so go figure...haha.Peter Farrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08282435407442494330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-61824651957533709632010-10-27T17:12:37.838-07:002010-10-27T17:12:37.838-07:00Re Charles Runyon. Credit Where Credit is Due Dep...Re Charles Runyon. Credit Where Credit is Due Department: Al Hubin, Victor Berch and I spent yesterday morning swapping emails back and forth trying to track him down until Al decided that the direct approach was just that.<br /><br /> Switchboard.com was all it took!<br /><br />In any case, I'm glad you're back in touch again. Good to know he's still around.<br /><br /> -- SteveSteve Lewishttp://www.mysteryfile.com/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-64888818268004511042010-10-27T16:11:15.390-07:002010-10-27T16:11:15.390-07:00I just completed a rerun through the McGee books, ...I just completed a rerun through the McGee books, but read them in my own weird order, for whatever reason. So I started with A DEADLY SHADE OF GOLD because, even though it was written before PURPLE, it seems to me to be where McGee puts his real boots on. I read straight through until FREE FALL IN CRIMSON, where I stopped to reread THE QUICK RED FOX, since the lovely actress Lisa Dean appears in both. Then onto the rest until THE LONELY SILVER RAIN. I immediately began DEEP BLUE GOODBYE. (Wow. That was a trippy thing!) Which means PURPLE PLACE FOR DYING came last. Trav in BLUE, PINK, and PURPLE still seems to have a bit of innocence about the world. If that makes sense. But reading them this way gave a whole new sense to McGee. Still great stuff!Judi Rohrighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07644731205323745687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-26530897220225251252010-10-27T15:23:56.008-07:002010-10-27T15:23:56.008-07:00The early Travis McGee books were def the best one...The early Travis McGee books were def the best ones in the series.Kenneth Mark Hooverhttp://kennethmarkhoover.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-12271967898134895332010-10-27T14:52:50.784-07:002010-10-27T14:52:50.784-07:00Ed, a year ago or so I decided to reread the McGee...Ed, a year ago or so I decided to reread the McGee books and started them, in order. Read right through Deep Blue Goodbye and Nightmare in Pink and got about 30 pages into this one and just hit a wall. I put it aside and never got back to it, and I'm not sure why. One reason may be I was already looking forward to the next one, Quick Red Fox, which I recalled I liked a lot the first time I read the books. But that doesn't really explain it. Once things are unpacked I'll have to pick this one up and give it another go.Richard R.http://brokenbullhorn.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com