Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Tim Dorsey is the best
View Single Post
 
Old 10-13-2010, 03:43 PM
BBQMan BBQMan is offline
Veteran member
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Chatham Village
Posts: 823
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Default

Based upon on Roadkill, Tim Dorsey with his primary characters - Serge and Coleman - was not for me. It was too dark and contained too many outlandish characters for my taste. If you want FL novelists, I recommend Carl Hiaasen, Lawrence Sanders and above all, John D. MacDonald. MacDonald's Travis McGee series has the same General view of Florida characters as Dorsey, but drawn with a light touch, inviting the reader to come and laugh with his protagonist. He wrote a number of novels other than the Travis McGee series, but I recommend 'Condominium' to anyone.
__________________
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw