Irvine Welsh (1 Viewer)

[sherro]

I'm currently reading Trainspotting after watching the movie. It is a cool movie and a good book. Hard to read though its written in scottish slang - fun to figure out though...
give it a read...
has any one read any of his other stuff?
peace

 

[jambi]

i love the movie Trainspotting.. i havn't read the book though
ive got PORNO, and i am attempting to read that... but its written in their accent, and its almost impossible to read... PORNO is the sequal to Trainspotting... i have been trying to read it for the whole year.. but i start and stop coz i get the shits with not being able to read it!!!

 

[renton]

im a masssive trainspotting fan (stole the username from the main character!), both film and novel. I'm in the middle of the novel, but i don't think i'll read any of welsh's other stuff when i'm done. From what i know of them, they sound awfully familiar to trainspotting in style, tone, content etc. Anyone know if thats true?

 

[smegger_em]

I love trainspotting! I had to read it last year for a course i did 'Modern Novel into Film' and i was just blown away by it. I was amazed that it was even more confronting than the film - I didn't think that was possible! I loved the different voices in the novel, the way that the Scots and swearing was stronger depending on who was speaking. Really brilliant and engorossing.

It makes me want to go to Glasgow, but also makes me scared to go there at the same time!

I haven't read any of his other stuff, but I have heard that it is similar. I have read James Kellman, who is an earlier major author from the same Scottish Grunge culture - pretty awsome too, though much less linear.

 

[RabbitRabbit]

Love reading in script format. By the end of reading Trainspotting, I was speaking it! What the fo*k dae yer dae? Reading Headstate was a bit more distrubing, nevertheless a thrilling read into the mind of a killer author
Also half-read Ecstasy but sadly never got around to finishing it.