[CT] Book Suggestions

[Daniel Moran]

John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Start out with one of the books 
that has Meyer in it -- the earliest books lack him and they're not quite 
as good as a result. The first one I read in the series was "Pale Gray for 
Guilt" -- I reread it recently and it holds up beautifully.

The Fletch books by Gregory McDonald. Fletch, Confess Fletch, Fletch's 
Fortune, Carioca Fletch -- I have a soft spot for Confess Fletch. More than 
a little of Fletch ended up in Trent --  almost everything I think I know 
about how to write good dialog came out of those books.

If your guy is open to SF at all, almost anything by Heinlein -- he's a 
very accessible SF writer by modern standards. Citizen of the Galaxy; Have 
Spacesuit, Will Travel; Double Star; Starship Troopers (though maybe not ST 
if your guy has seen that terrible movie; he might be too put off to 
continue); The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Stranger in a Strange Land might 
be pushing it -- though it's the first SF novel I ever read.

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