Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.
About the Author
Irvine Welsh is the author of eight previous works of fiction, most recently Crime. He lives in Dublin.
Reviews
'Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing for decades', Sunday Times .'One of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit and force', Nick Hornby, Times Literary Supplement .'As clever as Alasdair Gray, as elegant as Jeff Torrington, as passionate as James Kelman, Welsh has got it all', Tibor Fischer, .'The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent', Sunday Times .'An unremitting powerhouse of a novel - Loud with laughter in the dark, this novel is the real McCoy', The Herald .'A novel perpetually in a starburst of verbal energy - a vernacular spectacular...the stories we hear are retched from the gullet', Scotland on Sunday .'This marvellous novel might feel like a bad day in Bedlam, but boy is it exhilarating', Jeff Torrington, .'The Scottish Celine', James Wood, Guardian
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– Customer review on 13/04/2007
A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them...
The story of a bunch of Scottish drug addicts. Or I suppose more particularly, a group of Glaswegian drug addictions. I wonder if Welsh writes by dictating? The dialogue is written as it might sound, to some degree, in a spoken type dialogue.
A novel that is both entertaining and disturbing, and sometimes even both at once.
This is a dark tale of four young junkies in Glagsow. Made famous with the film of the same title, this book is a riviting read. The characters, though seemingly low life junkies are very likable. The book is so descriptive you feel as if you are trailing around behind them in their seedy neighbourhood. A brilliant read, though not for the faint hearted.
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