Thanks for the insight!DIrishB said:I definitely recommend reading them in order, though it can be difficult maintaining interest for casual fans all the way through. MacGregor's novels are all ok, some much better than others, but none are terrible. Still, by the sixth one, even his brisk pacing and absorbing style as an author (which worked so well early on) was wearing thin. However, I still enjoy MacGregor's run overall. Some really good stuff came out of those six novels.
Then came Martin Caidin, who wrote flight manuals with light shadings of Indiana Jones as James Bond. WTF? It took me more time to read these two novels than the other 10 combined, merely because they were so ludicrously boring, the characters unbelievably uninteresting (and Indy not being Indy at all), and the writing was paced like a crippled snail.
Max McCoy's were all quite good, easily the best author overall. Everything that's been said about McCoy's has been said, but its worth reading these four novels.
If you can't be bothered to wade through the first 8 books to get to McCoy's final four in the series, then just skip MacGregor's and Caidins (skip Caidin's no matter what, you'll be better off for it) and read McCoy's. Again, overall, though, MacGregor's six books are all worth at least a read.
I'm starting book 4 of MacGreor's series so I'll most likely read through book six, but regarding Caidin that's not at all the first time I've heard it, so maybe I'll skip them. I read Hollow Earth a while back and enjoyed that, so I'm glad to hear more positives regarding his other books.