tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290476670691353414.post6710610099498682749..comments2024-03-06T04:04:24.597-08:00Comments on The Trap of Solid Gold: JDM on Other Writers IISteve Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15863138617383626261noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290476670691353414.post-5917059296085821882011-05-06T06:28:17.970-07:002011-05-06T06:28:17.970-07:00Thank you JP, I am grateful for your comments and ...Thank you JP, I am grateful for your comments and your appreciation. I'm really enjoying writing this blog, I only wish I had more time to devote to it. <br /><br />I am a voracious reader and, like you, I read and appreciate a wide variety of authors. There are certainly better writers than JDM, but none who provide the sheer enjoyment that his books do. I've been reading and re-reading the McGee books since the early 1970's and I never tire of them. They remain as fresh and as alive as the day they were published. It was a unique little world MacDonald created, real enough to be believable, yet escapist enough to want to disappear into.Steve Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15863138617383626261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290476670691353414.post-9519090938115512942011-05-05T07:26:29.064-07:002011-05-05T07:26:29.064-07:00Steve, I just wanted to let you know I appreciate ...Steve, I just wanted to let you know I appreciate your blog, and was happy to stumble upon it this morning. I have spent the last couple of hours reading through some of your posts. I discovered JDM in 1985 when I bought a compendium of McGee novels and read all five of them straight-through while on a beach vacation. I was 15. Periodically, I return to MacDonald, as I did on a recent trip during which I read "A Bullet for Cinderella." I went on to study other more serious authors (Faulkner, Lawrence...etc.) but rarely have I enjoyed reading a writer as much as I do the first few chapters of a McGee, with the Boodles on ice, and Meyer aboard the Flush as the JMD sets the story in motion.<br /><br />You are doing good work here.JP Fanshawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14070878944318742436noreply@blogger.com