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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Story That Hits Home, August 13, 1999

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This review is from: Flight Dreams (Mark Manning Mysteries (Kensington Paperback)) (Paperback)

Overall, the best part of Craft's novel is its ability to make the reader think about his past. All too often Mark Manning's experiences made me re-live episodes from mine (sometimes with laughter and sometimes with tears). Craft has made Mark Manning believable because he is so like the rest of us. Struggling with the same feelings and sometimes fears. Few books today are successful in doing this. Craft draws the reader into the minds of his characters so well, the reader doesn't know it until the last page is read, and then of course it's too late. You just have to find out what happens next to Mr. Manning and his new found love Neil.

But perhaps, best of all, when I finished the book I felt satisfied. Again, another rarity in today's mass produced fiction.

Great job Craft!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Series of the Genre, January 18, 2004

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This review is from: Flight Dreams: A Mark Manning Mystery (Mark Manning Mysteries (Kensington Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

Michael Craft is absolutely my favorite author. Jump aboard for a great ride with this the first novel in the Mark Manning series. The only other series that ranks as high in my book is the Todd Mill series by RD Zimmerman.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sensual and Engrossing, November 20, 2002

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This review is from: Flight Dreams: A Mark Manning Mystery (Mark Manning Mysteries (Kensington Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

I love the Mark Manning series (6 books thus far). I have read the first four of the series and am eager to finish the two recently published ones, when I have uninterrupted time on my hand. To-date Flight Dreams remains my favorite. Mark is sensitive, mature and sexy. The mystery is fast paced and suspensful enough to hold the reader. Spiced with Mark's coming-out and the development of his relationship with the compatible Neil, the story is definitely more emotional and a notch above other gay mystery novels. I hope Mr Craft will continue with the series.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Introduction to Mark Manning
In Michael Craft's first volume in this series, he introduces the reader to Mark Manning, a Chicago newspaper reporter who for almost seven years has been writing about the... Read more

Published on March 11, 2005 by H. F. Corbin

3.0 out of 5 stars Light dreams perhaps
Craft's newspaper writer turned detective, Mark Manning, gets involved in the disappearance of a wealthy North Shore woman who breeds and shows the exotic Abyssinian cat. Read more

Published on September 27, 2003 by R. D. Waters

5.0 out of 5 stars Read this, and you will want to read more of Michael Craft!
Flight Dreams is another one of those books that you want to keep reading. Great character development and enough continuing plot lines to know that Mark Manning is going to have... Read more

Published on March 14, 2003 by scottchristopher

4.0 out of 5 stars Mark Manning: PART ONE
Like other Craft fans, I discovered "Flight Dreams" after reading the second in the Mark Manning series "Eye Contact". Read more

Published on March 8, 2003 by Reginald D. Garrard

1.0 out of 5 stars Mark Manning manages to waste your time
I was so excited to hear of a gay mystery set in my hometown of Chicago. Finally, a gay themed novel outside of San Francisco, Los Angeles, or New York. Read more

Published on August 22, 2002

1.0 out of 5 stars Unfortunately thin and amateurish
...The book is honestly not very good. The plot is thin, with ridiculous characters that don't amount to much more than throwaway caricatures. Read more

Published on April 2, 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent stuff
I love Mark Manning! Michael Craft's sleuthing newspaper man is top notch, and Craft keeps the pages turning. Buy the whole series!

Published on March 10, 2002 by Randy Goldberg

4.0 out of 5 stars The Beginning Of A Beautiful Relationship
This book, had me weary at first. After getting into it, and not being able to put it down - I knew I was going to love this book! Read more

Published on October 9, 2001 by Aaron S Joyce

4.0 out of 5 stars Re Flight Dreams
As a lapsed Catholic, a runner, an owner of and admirer of Abysinnian cats, and a "late bloomer" who had my first same-sex relationship in my early thirties, how could I... Read more

Published on March 7, 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars I loved it!
I am a lesbian who worked for over 40 years with gay men so I identify with them, and especially identified with Mark Manning, who, like me, is a lapsed Catholic, a runner, and... Read more

Published on March 5, 2001

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
airline heiress, flight dreams, prayer cloth

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Michael Craft, Helena Carter, Brother Burt, Humphrey Hasting, Arthur Mendel, Miss Viola, Margaret O'Connor, Mark Manning, Miss Exner, Nathan Cain, Bud Stirkham, Clarice Stirkham, Father Carey, Judge Ambrose, Jerry Klein, Bluff Shores, Ridgely Carter, Timothy Chatman, The Society, Gordon Smith, Hank Ferret, Father James, Father Matthew Carey, Miss O'Connor, Holy Altar

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