Thank you for the note; your point is very well taken!
Enrique Bird
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> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Read Ian Rankin
>
> Enrique wrote of Ian Rankin:
>
> But it is, in reality, truly tough crime fiction,
anything but tame or
> gentle or Scottish as we perceive it!
>
> First, I totally agree on how great the Inspector
Rebus books by Ian
> Rankin are. But I've got to ask, Enrique, where does
the conception
> that Scottish lit is tame and gentle come from? Just
about everything
> I've read from there is pretty dark stuff, although
it is often joined
> with a wickedly nasty sense of humor (or should that
be humour?).
> Although for the most part not crime books, the "Acid
Plaid" writers
> like Irvine Welsh and Alan Warner, plus their forbear
Alex Trocchi are
> full of existential dread, so is much of the music
from those realms,
> Jesus and Mary Chain and Mogwai, in
particular.
>
> I see Rankin also writes as Jack Harvey (why would he
pick a pseudonym
> so close to John Harvey? Was John already established
when Rankin
> started using the penname? Shades of John Ross
Macdonald). I haven't
> read any of these. Are they as good as the Rankins
and are they in
> print in the US?
>
> Mark
>
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