On the front of the book it informs me that this is a Travis McGee novel, A Nightmare In Pink. After 150 pages I finally realized that this was not the follow-up to The Deep Blue Goodbye I was hoping for. This a James Bond rip off. Double O'Dong in 50 Shades of Ballsack.Double O'Dong is irresistible to women. They are drawn to him like he's the star of an Axe Body Spray commercial. Once they get him they feel as if they've just had a pint of Rocky Road, lost 10 pounds, and watched a weekend full of romantic comedies. Totally satisfied. Of course, O'Dong doesn't figure out the bad guy's evil plans through stealth or witty sleuthing. He is captured and told the bad guy's plans because clearly, O'Dong could never escape and do anything about them.Somewhere around page 200, Double O'Dong makes a brief transformation into Travis McGee and there's a very satisfying bit of action and cleverness. O'Dong returns to close the book out in an anticlimactic fashion. The action combined with background on McGee gained in the first chapter and the excellent prose saved this book from the 2 stars it might have received. I do enjoy McGee's inner monologues/observations. The following is after McGee is bumped into on the crowded streets of New York."New York is where it is going to begin. I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached they turn savage and sward, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others' throats in a dreadful silence. The infection will spread outward from that point. Old ladies will crack sculls with their deadly handbags. Cars will plunge down the crowded sidewalks. Drivers will be torn out of their cars and stomped. It will spread to all the huge cities of the world, and by dawn of he next day there will be a horrid silence of sprawled bodies and tumbled vehicles, gutted buildings and a few wisps of smoke. And through that silence will prowl a few, a very few of the most powerful ones, ragged and bloody, slowly tracking each other down."Read the first chapter for the McGee background, read on the for prose and eventually the great action. But don't say I didn't warn you when 50 Shades of Ballsack slaps you in the face.
"Δολοφονία 10.000 δολαρίων", εκδόσεις ΒΙΠΕΡ.Μετά από δέκα ολόκληρους μήνες επιτέλους ξαναπιάνω στα χέρια μου βιβλίο με ήρωα τον αγαπητό Τράβις ΜακΓκι, τα κατορθώματα του οποίου η αλήθεια είναι ότι μου έλειψαν. Χρονολογικά αυτό είναι το δεύτερο βιβλίο της σειράς, το οποίο όμως βρήκα αφού διάβασα όλα τα βιβλία μέχρι το νούμερο εννιά. Δεν πειράζει, οι ιστορίες είναι λίγο-πολύ αυτοτελείς. Αυτή την φορά ο Τράβις θα αφήσει την αγαπημένη του Φλόριντα για να πάει στην Νέα Υόρκη, με σκοπό να βοηθήσει την αδερφή ενός καλού του φίλου. Ο αρραβωνιαστικός της κοπέλας δολοφονήθηκε σ'ένα σκοτεινό σοκάκι, ίσως γιατί είχε μπλέξει σε μια περίεργη υπόθεση στην δουλειά του. Τα δέκα χιλιάδες δολάρια που βρήκε η κοπέλα κάπου κρυμμένα, την έκαναν να σκεφτεί τα χειρότερα για τον μέλλοντα σύζυγό της. Ο Τράβις θα ανακαλύψει πράγματα και θάματα, θα μπλεχτεί σε μια υπόθεση εκατομμυρίων και θα αντιμετωπίσει έναν τρελό τύπο... Αν και αργεί στην αρχή, μετά γίνεται ένας μικρός χαμός, με αυτά που έχει να τραβήξει ο κακομοίρης ο Τράβις. Η ιστορία είναι λιγότερο περίπλοκη σε σχέση με τις επόμενες, έχει όμως αρκετό μυστήριο, εκπλήξεις και δράση, για να κρατήσει το ενδιαφέρον του αναγνώστη μέχρι το τέλος. Η γραφή, φυσικά, πολύ καλή, ευκολοδιάβαστη και ευχάριστη.
Do You like book Nightmare In Pink (1995)?
Nightmare in Pink is the second book in the Travis McGee series. I've long heard about Travis McGee. My mother read the books when I was young, and authors who I admire and respect like Stephen King and the late Robert B. Parker talk glowingly about John D. MacDonald, but I only recently decided to give the series a try. For me, the jury's still out.In Nightmare in Pink, Travis travels to New York to look into someone's death as a favor to an old army buddy. He pokes his nose all around, finding some suspicious activity but nothing too detailed, all the while flirting with every woman he sees and bedding his buddy's sister. About two thirds of the way in, the plot takes an outrageous left turn. McGee escapes mostly due to good luck, and the bad guy explains the nefarious scheme Bond villain style. I didn't find the plot all that interesting, though there is some entertaining psychedelic narration when McGee is drugged by the bad guys. I hated much of the dialog. I suppose it is possible this is how people really talked in the sixties, but I hope not.Audiobook: Narrated by Robert Petkoff. Petkoff is an adequate but uninspiring narrator, perhaps hampered by the stilted dialog.
—Timothy Taylor
This is the first Travis McGee novel I've read. I enjoy mystery fiction, but don't read a ton of PI stories, even though my first novel, "Shott in the Dark", is a comedic PI mystery. So I decided one of the masters of the genre, John D. McDonald, really should be on my reading list. For the most part, I enjoyed this novel a great deal. It does get a little weird toward the end when McGee is drugged with hallucinogens, but the way McDonald handled this in a first person narrative was really interesting. Having been written in the early 60s there are, of course, some dated aspects. McGee hitting a woman and her falling in love with him a few pages later is a problem for the modern reader. But if you can get over that as a product of it's time, this is a fast-paced, enjoyable read. Recommended.
—Kirk Hanley
Every series has its books that just go 'thunk.' Sadly, this is one of those books. A goofy plot - a mental institute where some mad doctor is doing 'experiments' on people the bad guys want out of the way. Kept reminding me of that Jonathan Kellerman clunker in the Alex Delaware series - The Web . This book largely takes place in New York, instead of McGee's Florida. All the women are wanting (at times begging) to hop into bed with McGee and calling him "Trav" (what's with the nickname). And w
—Nanosynergy
