Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Trainspotting
Book Review: Deserves to sell more copies than the bible - DEFINITELY!
Summary: 5 Stars
The best book I've ever read. Just read it tooBook Review: Deserves to sell more copies than the bible, they say.
Summary: 5 Stars
And when you read it you'll know why. From the beginning you feel as if the characters were people you've known all your life. Regardless of whether you're for or against drugs, this book shows herion for what it is and does a real fine job of it too.
The book is written in "Scottish", which I personally found delicious, although some have commented it is difficult to understand (it isn't, really).
The book's strongest point, however, is that it portrays life in Scotland and Britain and the various mentalities of the people there. It's dead serious at times, hilarious at others, but intriguing throughout. Either you'll love it or you'll hate it. Probably the former, though.
Book Review: Differnt, brillant and makes you think, with humor.
Summary: 5 Stars
This book invaded Britian like Pulp Fiction did America, and anyoe reading
it can easily figure out why. This group of quick short storys that connect
and relate to each other will make you laugh out loud at its daringly
digusting humor, and also gets quiet sad at points. In an unknown worl of
junkies and rude boys, the reader will get to know the charaters, and hate
them, or love them.
What makes this book so differnt from everyother failed book on the same
subject? Its divided into short storys, with the view changing from one person,
to another, and then narator. Everyone who read it agrees that its a well done
peice of work from a great new author, and I will certainly look in to other
writings of Irvine Welsh, but they have a lot to live up to.Book Review: Eclipses the Stellar Film
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this as Gestalt therapy after a friend OD'd. Contrary to popular opinion it doesn't glorify heroin addiction but, rather, caustically villifies it by simply showing it how it is. Dark, gritty, yet incredibly funny Trainspotting (the novel) totally eclipses what was a fantastic film. If you loved the flick (and who in Gen-X didn't?)then you'll want to read the book if only because so many hilarious scenes were left out of the former. Whilst the phonetically accented writing is initially hard to decipher, after a couple of chapters you won't even notice it. Simply stunning.Book Review: Escaping the Downward Spiral
Summary: 4 Stars
To say that taking heroine is easy would a paradox in terms.
Anyone who reads Irvine Welsh, whether they admire his writing,
or just because they want to seem fashionable, comes away
from his books with the feeling that they have just ridden
an unsafe roller-coaster. Trainspotting, is a story that takes
the reader to highs and lows in the lives of a group of Glaswegian youths
as they try to cope with the pressure of Scottish life, with
the help of heroine. The story has so many strong characters
that no one emerges as a hero, or villain, as they all deal
with their own dilemmas in different ways. Mark Renton is the
story's only hope for a happy ending as he tries, without success,
to rid himself of the shackles of being a junky. Along the way
he receives help, advise, and heartache from all angles.
It is the sad comedy of the situation that makes the key players in the
book seem to warm to the reader, but it slowly becomes obvious
that all cannot be as easy as it seems. The inevitable
waste of life is just around the corner. And all in the book are faced with
the futile struggle to change their bleak future. The circle of
destruction widens as the story unfolds, and the ending is like a release
from an urban nightmare of sprawling tower-blocks, dilapidated
flats, drug abuse, aids, violence, and eventually, death.
It would be hard to not enjoy such a simple, hard hitting story, that
is brilliantly written, and strong in it's entirity.