[flashlight69]

irvine welsh! he is a great writer ,right ?

my irvine welsh collection is:

trainspotting
drecksau
the bed storys of the master chiefs
porno

well i like his sense of homour.its fun to read and cool.he is a punk
the trainspotting movie is also cool

[Keeping It Simple]

Is he Welsh?

[demonrail666]

I loved Trainspotting but for some reason I've never been able to summon the enthusiasm to read anything else he's done.

Correction: I did read The Acid house, which i thought was good but not anything like as good as Trainspotting.

[jennthebenn]

Read everything of his except Crime and The Acid House.

Favorites are Trainspotting and Marabou Stork Nightmares.

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[flashlight69]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

I loved Trainspotting but for some reason I've never been able to summon the enthusiasm to read anything else he's done.

Correction: I did read The Acid house, which i thought was good but not anything like as good as Trainspotting.

porno is the sequel to trainspotting welsh brings all the main caracters back renton spud sick boy baggbie.well this is a sequel.sick boy makes a porno with a few bitches then he meet renton again but this time they are not really friends andymore.and then the showdown with begbie who is more phsycho than ever before.i love it really.perfect

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by jennthebenn

Read everything of his except Crime and The Acid House.

Favorites are Trainspotting and Marabou Stork Nightmares.

I think the massive media attention he received (in the UK at least) after Trainspotting sort of put people off him for a bit. For a good year it seemed impossible to switch on the tv or the radio without hearing his name. He sort of ended up being bracketed with the likes of Damien Hirst as a kind of enfant terrible within the whole 'Cool Britannia' thing. I think it made a lot of people quite cynical about him, which is a shame because i do think Trainspotting is a great book.

Originally Posted by flashlight69

porno is the sequel to trainspotting welsh brings all the main caracters back renton spud sick boy baggbie.well this is a sequel.sick boy makes a porno with a few bitches then he meet renton again but this time they are not really friends andymore.and then the showdown with begbie who is more phsycho than ever before.i love it really.perfect

I keep seeing 'Porno' whenever I'm in a book shop looking for something else (usually by Evelyn Waugh, hence my being in the 'W' section) and wondering whether to give it a go or not. I'll probably pick it up at the weekend. Thanks for the recommendation.

[jon boy]

i liked trainspotting but have not read anything else by him.

incidentaly robert carlisle comes into my wifes work quite regularly with his family. i think he is filming here or something. i did a double take when i first saw him and all i could think of was begbie.

[radarmaker]

Porno's great, as is Glue. Maribou Stork Nightmares & Filth veered to much into plain nastiness to be enjoyable overall, but both had their moments. The Acid House & Ecstasy are nice, if lightweight. Bedroom Secrets is awful.

[flashlight69]

bedroom secrets hase this "i am the king of the words style"
filth is simple written but maybe better or not.bedroom secrets i think is also great love this brian kibby the main reason why i read welsh his characters are so close to my own real charakter.i also think fuck you or "fotze" all the time.

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Originally Posted by jennthebenn

Read everything of his except Crime and The Acid House.

Favorites are Trainspotting and Marabou Stork Nightmares.

i loved the Trainspotting and Acid House movies, but i'd only read Trainspotting until i was held up at an airport a while back. they had Crime at the bookstore. it was different but very good. apparently he lives in Florida part of the year now, and the protagonist is a Scottish detective on vacation in Miami who gets drawn into a local case when he starts back on the hookers and blow routine... not as innovative as Trainspotting but very entertaining.

[LifeDistortion]

I had a Irvine Welsh thread a couple weeks back, or it became one when I posted about Ewan Mcgregor saying he wasn't too keen on the idea of reprising his role as Renton for a "Porno" movie. Anyways I'm heading towards the end of "Bedroom Secrets...." Its odd because its his most straight up prose fiction ever and oddly its not as good as some of the other books I've read of his. I for one really enjoyed "Porno" its been a hell of a long time since I read "Trainspotting" which was like reading a goddamn second language when I read it. Hated that he wrote the Scottish dialect not to mention constantly switching narrators. Now having read a number of his other novels I've grown used to it and its not as challenging for me. And I'm able to just enjoy the stories now. Outside of Trainspotting/Porno I really enjoyed "The Marabou Storke Nightmares". Haven't read his short stories. Isn't "Glue" short stories as well? Or is it a novel?

[LifeDistortion]

Anyone heard anything about a third Jeffery Eugenides novel? That guy takes forever to write a damn book.

[Rob Instigator]

I own trainspotting and filth, started reading both, coul;d give a fuck after about 100 pages, just never gripped me.
stopped reading them.

will give them away to a good home.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I own trainspotting and filth, started reading both, coul;d give a fuck after about 100 pages, just never gripped me.
stopped reading them.

will give them away to a good home.

You should give Trainspotting another go at least. I too found the first couple of chapters pretty difficult to get into, mostly because of the phonetic way in which it's written and the obscure (for me anyway) slang used. It soon became pretty easy to work out though and after that spell at the beginning I really enjoyed it.

Of course, if you'd already got over the whole language thing and merely thought, 'well this is a load of boring crap' (which you're perfectly entitled to) then ignore everything I just said.

[automatic bzooty]

trainspotting is great.

[Rob Instigator]

I've just read SOOOO many novels about junkies. it gets old.

[demonrail666]

I was trying to think of some response along the lines of, 'ah, but trainspotting isn't really about junkies', but i just felt daft. Trainspotting is as much about junkies as Jaws is about a shark attacking a seaside resort: very. So yeah. if you're burnt out on junky-lit, then trainspotting is probably a book to be avoided. No question.

[otearai]

well, i like his books.
i first read porno translated in my language and it was so catchy; than i got glue and the bedroom secrets in english and enjoyed them even more.
and i can't help using the slang in everyday life while reading, hah.

[Phlegmscope]

I'm reading Acid House at the moment, kind of, but as I have the original english edition, There are moments I can understand fuck all about the language. Other than that, I've liked it.
"Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough."