My take on this is that the TV versions of Rebus are better than the
novels, which I do find written in a rather flat-footed prose.
I must remark, Rob, that you couldn't respond to my remarks about
Albion Rovers, I don't know, a Glasgow man who knows nothing about
football. One of the things I admire about Brookmyre is that he's a St
Mirren supporter.
2008/11/21 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
> ... of course, well before Rankin with Rebus, William McIlvanney was already
> writing Glasgow noir detective fiction.
>
> But nobody cares about John the Baptist.
>
> Ian Hamilton Findlay's _Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd ..._ was couthy and funny,
> but it all really started with Tom Leonard's "Six Glasgow Poems".
>
> There's a fairly comprehensive collection (even I get included!) if anyone
> wants to track urban Glasgow poetry, in Hamish Whyte's anthology, _Noise and
> Smoky Breath_.
>
> The contentious text, when it comes to dating, is Stephen Mulrine's "The
> Coming of the Wee Malkies".
>
> Robin
>
> {Oh and of course, let's not forget Carl MacDougall's "Cod Liver Oil and the
> Orange Juice" -- though the textual variants of that are quite baroque,
> putting Langland to shame.
>
> R.}
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally Evans"
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>
>> Oh yes I read the Rebus novels and its great knowing Edinburgh well.
>
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