Glue by Irvine Welsh Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Glue
Book Review: Glue, Scottish youths' trips to manhood
Summary: 5 Stars
Glue is a well written story of four scottish youths and how they grow up and change in the environment of Edinburgh's slums. It is quite direct in descriptions of what they do and how they do it. The major obsticle to easy enjoyment of this is the use of heavy Scottish dialect. However, the reader will find these youths do not have a 1000 word vocabulary and after a difficult beginning the reading gets quite easy.Book Review: Good but inferior to early works
Summary: 3 Stars
When I first read Trainspotting I was blown away. The language, incomprehensible initially, soon slipped into a pattern that I could understand allied to a cracking story. I duly read all of Welsh's prior and following work and picked up Glue on its release here in the UK.I found Glue to be heavy going yet still persisted to the end. Welsh's mix of Scots dialect and plain English does not allow for speedy reading and at times I felt like giving it up. Yet Welsh always seems to produce at least one character that you have to follow to the end. In this case the man in question was Juice Terry (fa they Juice lorries, ken?). Hilariously over the top - repulsive to know but great to read about.
Sadly, Terry's attractions are diluted by some of the rest of the book. The cameos from the other books seem forced and unnecessary. The other characters raised no emotion in me.
Pick this book up for Terry, just don't expect another trainspotting.
Book Review: Good but not great
Summary: 4 Stars
This book expands on the world created in Trainspotting, a social study on 4 boys becoming men and coping through poverty, drugs, etc.It's not Trainspotting, a book I fear all Welsh's work will be compared with, but it's a fast paced highly enjoyable read.
Book Review: Great book
Summary: 5 Stars
This was an excellent book. If you like trainspotting you will like this book a lot. The scottish slang took awhile to get used to, but after about 100 pages its no problem.Book Review: Great book, please make a film
Summary: 5 Stars
Irvine Welsh blows my mind, with his genious. Having lived in Scotland for 26 years (I'm a weedgie! (Glaswegian)), I got into the dialect easily, and was instantly "glued" to the book. Fantastic stuff. Vulgar, depraved, hilarious, sexy, sad and joyous all at the same time. Welsh's books take you places no other author can or could go. Brilliant. Please make a movie.