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[nuranar]

This time I'm quick with another Alistair MacLean review!  In the past year I've pretty much exhausted his pre-1970 books.  Now I'm working my way through the later ones. (Complete list and links here.)  I'm not bothering to read them in order, since by most accounts their quality, although uniformly poor in comparison to his previous excellence,

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[nuranar]

At least this wasn't a surprise. I've been reading MacLeans for about ten years, and from the first I was surprised how one book would be SO GOOD and the next just so-so. When I finally found a timeline, though, I saw the trend right away.

I'm glad you enjoy reading them. May I ask what thoughts they've been "fodder" for? 'Cause I adore rabbit trails, especially when they start with a MacLean. :D

[jordannamorgan]

I'm curious. Have you ever seen a 1978 movie called The Wild Geese? My father had the last half-hour or so of it on tape when I was little, and he used to subject me to it; and weirdly, it still carries enough father-daughter bonding connotations that I can look back on it semi-fondly. (I probably wouldn't watch it voluntarily nowadays, but hey--I got so little parental "quality time" as a kid that I'd take what I could get

[nuranar]

Hmm - No, I haven't! It does sound pretty darned good. I'll ask my dad when he gets back from the choir trip, since he may remember.

Aha - Stewart Granger from The Prisoner of Zenda! And I saw Richard Harris in those first couple movies you hate, but don't remember him. Richard Burton, on the other hand... well, he's okay in his mid- to later movies (Where Eagles Dare being the big one), but I really liked him in his earlier movies like Desert Rats and The Robe. Who know, though.

It's definitely encouraging for the woman to be way low down. *g*

There's a novel? Hehehe...