John D MacDonald is Back!

[BelleZora]

Originally Posted by DarkScribe

I have been re-reading his books over the past few days - this thread prompted me. I had forgotten how often he moralised, lectured, and mounted his "green" soapbox throughout his novels. He was lecturing about conservation and pollution back in the sixties. They are still very entertaining books - proselytising included.

He also proselytized over loss of privacy in the early sixties. Trav would have had a really hard time of it now.

I don't recall finding the women so wimpy and annoying back in the days when the books were new. I don't think that the books are dated, however, so much as a time machine to an earlier era. Maybe the proselytizing is more interesting now.