Doug and Scatalogic expressed their disappointment with Mark
Timlin.
I've read three Timlins, including Romeo's Tune with which
Doug was less than enthralled, and I have a stack of his
other titles to be read. He ain't great lit, but I kind of
enjoy him. It's strictly genre fare and doesn't pretend to be
anything but that, stripped down to plot and attitude.
Sometimes I want to read something like that just to clean
the pallet.
I find it interesting to have the essentially American
creation of the fictional private eye grafted onto the London
scene. And grafted Sharman is. Timlin doesn't seem to try to
integrate Sharman into the Brit world, but plays off the
clash between the two (unlike John Milne, whose Jimmy Jenner
is very Brit). I think of them as empty calorie books, they
don't stick with you very long after you've finished them,
but they're fun as you are reading them.
Mark
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