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Originally Posted by CRussel
I'm curious, Tom. How do these hold up? I haven't read any of them in 50+ years, but I remember reading virtually all of them when I was young, since my Mom read them as quickly as they came out and the Library had them in. And at that age, I read voraciously.
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I still love them; especially the early ones, where Mason is a bit of a rogue himself. But as much as I loved Raymond Burr's Mason, I couldn't picture Burr hitting anyone, though, or even threatening to.
There are a few uncomfortable moments occasionally where the characters act in ways that society has outgrown or say things that make us wince, especially in those early books, but if you can take those as being reflective of the times in which they were written, I think you'd find the stories very enjoyable. Gotta' love a lawyer who carries his own set of skeleton keys and divides his time between fighting disbarment procedures and pulling sneaky stunts for his clients that get him into even more hot water.