One More Sunday [Paperback]

John D. MacDonald (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1985

In ONE MORE SUNDAY, John D. MacDonald turns a skeptical eye toward the practices of corporate religion. Meadows Center is a sprawling, heavily-guarded community of homes, commerce and worship. It also provides a base of operation for the Eternal Church of the Believer.

MacDonald has no quarrel with religion, organized or not. But he is quick to label quackery for what it is.

"To diggers a thousand years from now...the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen." --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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Welcome to the Eternal Church of the Believer, where devout workers operate state-of-the-art computer equipment to solicit and process the thousands of dollars that pour in daily . . . where hundreds of prayers are offered by armies of believers . . . where some people give much more than they should.
Its home is Meadows Center, some very expensive real estate on the outskirts of a sleepy Southern town, a jealously guarded complex of offices, houses, schools, and, of course, churches.
Meet John Tinker Meadows, who heads the church now that his father is secretly dying . . . the Reverend Joe Deets, who lusts after very young women . . . Walter Macy, pompous and self-righteous, who blackmails his way to his secret ambition . . . the Reverend Mary Margaret Meadows, a powerhouse in her own right. And pity poor Roy Owen, an outsider who comes to Meadows Center on a desperate search for his wife, the journalist who vanished after asking some hard questions about the inner workings of the Eternal Church of the Believer . . . .
"Brilliantly done." -- The New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: New English Library Ltd; New edition edition (December 1, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0450058190
• ISBN-13: 978-0450058196
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,087,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Fair Tale Dealing With Many Ideas, August 25, 2005

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Bob A. Reiss "Audiobook Reviews: The Guilded ... (Bensalem, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One More Sunday (Hardcover)

Even if I found the Travis McGee series a bit trying at times, I always believed that the late John MacDonald was one of America's finest mystery writers. Some of his stand alone books, especially Condominium and The Executioners (the novel Cape Fear was based on) were top notch action packed tales. In One More Sunday, MacDonald takes on a new target, the Mega-Church. While uncovering the sexual escapades, hypocrisy and financial misdeeds of his characters, he also paints a portrait of many good meaning and faithful people who truly have the best intentions, but get carried away in there execution. Religious figures can be easy targets, but MacDonald looks beyond the bad to show you both sides.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely well written., December 22, 2007

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Michael G. "mikefromrochester" (Rochester, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One More Sunday (Mass Market Paperback)

One More Sunday by John D. MacDonald is about a megachurch, even though I daresay the term megachurch was not in common usage at the time this wonderful potboiler of a book was written. The Eternal Church of the Believer, a wholy owned subsidiary of the charasmatic Meadows family, has a national following of loyal tithers, round the clock cable TV programming, plenty of valuable real estate and its own university.

But lurking beneath the squeaky clean veneer of uncompromising religiosity is a culture of hypocrisy, greed, jealousy and sexual promiscuity. MacDonald skillfully uses this apparent paradox to craft several very interesting subplots including one centered around a murder investigation.

This novel is quite remarkable for a number of reasons. Plenty of interesting characters, vividly descriptive prose, many inter-related plot threads (all quite compelling) and a few genuinely unexpected twists to the storyline. It is not an exaggeration to refer to One More Sunday as a tour de force. Very highly recommended.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ambitious but rambles a bit, June 17, 2006

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C. Blanc "Chris Blanc" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One More Sunday (Mass Market Paperback)

His concept: to tell a mystery through the interlocking stories of several people connected with a conspiratorial entity, looking back over an event. It's ambitious and tackles many ideas and hypocrisies within our society, which was inspirational to me, but is LONG and is doubly burdened with lengthy discursive passages and character explication that takes awhile. This is one of the most ambitious mystery novels I have read, and somewhere, I think Agatha and Dashiell are cheering. If you can handle a slightly longer and more complex read, this is a rewarding story without the whiz-bang effects common now.