Condominium

by John D. MacDonald

Book Overview

A "first-rate entertainment" ( New York Daily News ), Condominium is a panoramic novel from a master of suspense that follows the disappearance of an American paradise, the corrupt souls willing to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449235254
• ISBN13: 9780449235256
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A John D. MacDonald fail

This is simply awful. The plot is meh, and the characters are so sleazy that it's impossible to empathize with them. I ditched the read about one-third of the way through. A better choice is one of Macdonald's colorful Travis McGee novels. They're painfully dated--good examples of the postwar alpha-male detective genre--but he tells a good tale.

Relevant today.

Bought this book new when it came out. Like others said this is a reminder of what nature can do and the greed of our fellow man. This is the best book, in my opinion, that John D. Macdonald wrote.

very relavent today

I read this book many years ago and I have told many people about it. I am going to purchase it now to give to my children to read. It is perfectly true even by today's standards. They actually made a mini-series of it back in the day when those were all the rage. I would be interested in seeing that again as well. Just as an aside--he also wrote a very astute book about all the tele-evangelists and this was BEFORE the Jimmy Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart scandals. He was a true visionary. I love the whole Travis McGee series as well.

Condominium by John MacDonald

Living in Florida I read Condominium each year just to remember how fragile a peninsula it is we live on. The discipline helps me make decisions when hurricanes threaten. I've given this book to others to read as a reminder.

Where it all begins

An awesome look at the reality of what they do to the old people here in Florida. MacDonald essentially indicts our entire society. This novel's more relevant today than ever, MacDonald was truly visionary. These characters are real people and they live here in Florida, except for the hero character, Sam Harrison, who might as well have been named Travis McGee. I haven't read all of Johnny Mac, but this might be his best one.

Golden years, dream homes...only on the surface.

"Condominium" may be MacDonald's best novel. Much of it is still relevant after 20 years. No other book I've read captures the perils and paranoias of aging with such pithy eloquence. Here on the wet coast of British Columbia, this novel has new relevance, for we have leaky condos by the hundreds.