39, WG35, M28, E39, / NG4, F11, MF0, B2, D0, Frz0, C0, NA1

John D. MacDonald, The Lonely Silver Rain

Für mich ist dieser Band immer noch der bestmögliche Abschluß der Serie und ich glaube immer noch, dass MacDonald keinen weiteren Band geschrieben hätte, selbst wenn er noch länger gelebt hätte. Schon garkeinen "schwarzen". Abgesehen davon ist er auch ohne den Handlungsstrang mit seiner Tochter einer der besten. Schon wie er die gestohlene Yacht findet und was sich alles daraus ergibt ist immer wieder total fesselnd zu lesen.
Achja, und er erwähnt noch ein Buch von Stephen King. Ohne Namen und Titel, aber eindeutig.
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Communication is a process of interpreting symbols. Words are symbols. Gestures and gifts and touchings are symbols. In any life we misinterpret more than we should, perhaps because our deepest intentions are at odds with the messages we project.
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Meyer likes riding buses. He says it is the ultimate privacy. Nobody ever talks to you. You sit high enough to look over the tops of the cars and the bridge railings and see the world. You can read and think. He says tourists on cruises get off their luxury vessels and clamber onto buses, paying large fees to stare at the foreign scenery while somebody yaps at them about what they are looking at over a PA system so dreadful they catch one word in three. He says he has seen things out of bus windows so absurd, so grotesque, so fantastic, that riding the bus is sometimes like gliding through someone else's dream.
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"Innocent people and guilty people are killed every day. Stray bullets in small wars. Fog on the Interstates. If innocence could keep us alive, my friend, we'd all be saints."
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We are here, and there is music and there are bad jokes, and so we are all a little bit longer in the tooth and have seen life go up, down and sideways without any rhyme or reason anyone can determine. We laugh at tired old jokes because they are old and tired and familiar, and it is good to laugh.
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(John D. MacDonald, The Loney Silver Rain, 1984)