Daniel’s Reviews > Inward Journey: Reflections on Ross Macdonald > Status Update
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First piece is a transcription of a recorded lecture and were this book not printed in 1984 I'd blame some kind of computer error for "Certain writers of the cloaca-and-dagger school" on page 14 and wonder how that got by the editor. Then again, Macdonald was a birdwatcher...
— Mar 10, 2026 10:44PM
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I'd never heard of Gilbert Sorrentino, but I'm gonna need to reread that piece. I don't think I entirely understood it.
— Mar 23, 2026 01:39PM
Daniel
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The Robert B Parker piece is barely a page. Just like a chapter in one of his novels. ;) The Richard Layman piece was very good. One of the best in a while. I'd been starting to think they'd frontloaded all the good stuff.
— Mar 22, 2026 11:03PM
Daniel
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didn't care for the David Madden piece, too much about himself. most of this has been pretty good though.
— Mar 18, 2026 09:32PM
Daniel
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some cool writing tidbits in the kenner piece. the symons piece is good, but nothing stood out in it.
— Mar 16, 2026 03:32PM
Daniel
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The Robert Easton piece was good. (Only the first two pieces here are by Macdonald, the rest of the book is various people writing about him.)
— Mar 16, 2026 12:13PM
