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  <title><![CDATA[The Deep Blue Good-by]]></title>
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  <default_description>TRAVIS McGEE&lt;br&gt;He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half....&lt;br&gt;With an introduction by CARL HIAASEN&lt;br&gt;JOHN D. MACDONALD&lt;br&gt;&quot;....the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.&quot; &lt;br&gt;--STEPHEN KING&lt;br&gt;&quot;....a master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer.&quot;&lt;br&gt;--MARY HIGGINS CLARK&lt;br&gt;&quot;....a dominant influence on writers crafting the continuing series character.&quot;&lt;br&gt;--SUE GRAFTON&lt;br&gt;&quot;....my favorite novelist of all time.&quot;&lt;br&gt;--DEAN KOONTZ&lt;br&gt;&quot;...the consummate pro, a master storyteller and witty observer.&quot;&lt;br&gt;--JONATHAN KELLERMAN&lt;br&gt;&quot;...remains one of my idols.&quot;&lt;br&gt;--DONALD WESTLAKE&lt;br&gt;THE TRAVIS McGEE SERIES&lt;br&gt;&quot;...one of the great sagas in American fiction.&quot;&lt;br&gt;--ROBERT B. PARKER&lt;br&gt;&quot;...what a joy that these timeless and treasured novels are available again.&quot;&lt;br&gt;--ED McBAIN</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1964</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Deep Blue Good-by</original_title>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book should have been called <em>To Catch a Rapist You Have to Think Like a Rapist.</em> I'd always heard good things about John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series, so I decided I'd start at the beginning, and bought the first couple of books in the series. After reading <em>The Deep Blue Good-by</em>, however, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/645477">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first in the Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald.  It was written in the 1960's, but it holds up well.  McGee is PI who lives on his houseboat off of the coast of Florida.  It's written in the first person, and McGee's smart ass remarks are great.  Plus, MacDonald was way ahead of his time r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7717381">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 20 07:54:07 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 29 20:27:07 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[How did I sleep on this dude?  The best writing ever.  Seems his women always get the short end of the stick though, like they are perpetually helpless, in strife, and getting the shit kicked out of them. Yikes.  So I can't see too many women digging on this noir genius, but since I am a dude, I win...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15889717">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intriguing writing. The feel of it from a different era, like watching a movie made half a century ago. Reasonable enough, since the book was published in 1964. It's like listening to the original radio broadcasts of Dragnet, or watching a black-and-white movie where rich people in Connecticut still...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52187185">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Deep Blue Good-by was written in 1964.  For a &quot;dime&quot; novel or one that I would call &quot;read and forget&quot;, this is one well written story.  It is amazing to me the difference in writing styles and reader's needs for a lot of white on the pages with snippets of character developme...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45253638">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been a fan of hard-boiled detective novels for years.  Unfortunately I started with Chandler and Dashiell Hammett so it's been downhill since then.  I've read about John  D. MacDonald for years, but just now picked up the first Travis McGee novel.<br/><br/>McGee is a finder of lost things, he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64579829">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon May 18 23:10:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I discovered John D. MacDonald back in high school, much to the dismay of some of my teachers back then.  I was too young to appreciate his skill as a writer.  What kept me coming back to the books, though was how different he was from the typical mystery writer.  Often his mysteries were about mone...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56578970">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49834922">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read every Travis McGee novel and if you haven't you are missing out.  Not only is McDonald a master storyteller, not only is Travis one of the more remarkable characters you'll ever meet, not only is the writing carefully crafted, but for books that are between 25-35 years old now, they stan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49834922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Dennis D.]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like many others, I was lured to this book by the dual reputations of the author, the late <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/24690.John_D_MacDonald" title="John D. MacDonald">John D. MacDonald</a>, and his most famous character, Travis McGee.   The Deep Blue Good-By (love the archaic spelling/hyphenation of “goodbye”) is the first in the series, and was originally published a lo-o-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42493303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34648649">
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've never read one of John D. MacDonald's Travis MaGee thrillers, THE DEEP BLUE GOODBYE is the first in the series.  MaGee lives on a houseboat and makes his living from time to time doing &quot;salvage&quot; work.  Generally this means he finds lost girls who have fallen into the wrong hands,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34648649">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 21 11:42:39 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[All my mystery-reading life (about 52 years now if you count Nancy Drew), I've managed to avoid reading John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee stories -- and his other works as well. I'd certainly heard of them, I just thought I wouldn't care for them. Recently, I mentioned my discovery that MacDonald and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28535220">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I discovered Travis McGee back in 2000 or 2001, as I was sampling what many deemed &quot;pulp fiction&quot;. I suppose there's some hard-boiled grit to McDonald's writing, but he's just too good to be lumped in with some of the other trash that is also recognized as &quot;pulp&quot;. <br/>I've read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5743864">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wanted to give this a 5-star simply because the ending is terrific. The build up to the ending was a little tame, but there were spikes of interesting activity. Travis McGee is a likable protag, and there are many more additions to this series (The Deep Blue Good-by is the first). <br/><br/>I kept...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76950493">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Travis McGee seemingly fits the role of the misogynistic male detective protagonist that characterized the mystery genre in 1964, with the exception that McGee is acutely aware of his misogyny and reflects upon it. Both repelling and compelling to McGee, his ability to recognize his issues yet refus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18042677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First in the &quot;Travis McGee&quot; series and, of the early series entries at least, clearly the best.  MacDonald picks up the &quot;private eye&quot; genre with all its conventions, and somehow makes the whole so much greater than the sum of its parts. DEEP BLUE is one of the most perfect &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53572612">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You can't go wrong with Travis McGee, the cnfirmed bachellor private detective who lives on a houseboat somewhere around Florida and has only one rule--he'll find what you've lost, as long as he can keep half of it.  This is part of a long series that I've enjoyed for years.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my husband and i read all of macdonalds books in the 60's,70's and 80's. he creats great characters, especially &quot;travis magee&quot;. fun to read and educational. good info about Florida, the invironmental changes on the south coast over 35 years]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not a big fan of mysteries, but MacDonald's writing is tight, terse and holds up amazingly well 30 plus years after he first wrote it. His attitudes and and opinions of women as depicted in his female characters is a bit distracting but in a cartoonish way, so that made it less offensive to this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40263347">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent; Continuing character: Travis McGee; first of the McGee stories; he helps two women find the man who stole the gems one's father had hid for her and who abused them both.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The beginning of my favorite detective fiction. There is no other but the great Travis McGee. If you are looking for a superb first person thriller narrative, this is the one. ]]></body>
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