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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,
By 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.,
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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,
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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.
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