Trainspotting

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Summary: The best book on addiction since A Clockwork Orange
Review: I haven't read a book that was this kinetically enjoyable since Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange". Anyone who thinking of experimenting with drugs should check out this honest and unflinching account of what life on heroin is like.

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Summary: REAL
Review: Its my life in a single book

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Summary: an awesome book by Welsh!!
Review: This book was wonderful! A bit hard to read, but once you get the hang of it, you can't put it down. The movie is just as wonderful as the book. A job well done for Welsh!!

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Summary: It was great!
Review: It was great

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Summary: It's good, ya ken?
Review: What a cool, modern, intense combination of light and dark. As an American, I was discouraged at first by the thick Scottish dialect and this is why I think some people wouldn't stick with it, but the minimum amound of perseverance needed to get into the rhythm and colloquialisms of the speech is well worth this book. While some scenes are just plain black (heroin use is portrayed extremely realistically and tragically), some other parts are absolutely hilarious. I laughed out loud several times. Very enjoyable and a great piece for my generation.

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Summary: Revolutionary.
Review: This book should be handed out in high schools

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Summary: READ THIS.
Review: I won't say this book is 'provocative' or 'thought-provoking' or 'harrowing' or even 'disturbing', because it's all been said before. Irvine Welsh is everything that hasn't been said before in a book, but what everyone knows already and realises in themselves after they read 'Trainspotting'. I won't say that this book 'deserves to sell more copies than the bible' (rebel inc.), like it says on the cover, because as far as i'm concerned the bible doesn't deserve to sell any copies. However, 'Trainspotting' is wickedly truthful, however psychotic it is. I won't say that 'once i picked it up, i couldn't put it down', because in fact, it was probably the strangest thing i'd ever read besides Shakespeare. It took my ages to figure out what all the 'bairns' and 'brars' and 'kens' actually meant. I bought the book, and after reading four pages, thought, 'what the hell is this??!'. I will say, three years later, that it's like a bible to me now. The bible of the youth voice. You can be forty and have the voice of the youth as long as you don't forget. The youth mentality won't change. It's always been about p****** people off and doing what other people won't. Welsh knows this deliciously. I have to say the movie was good, 'cos it gave Renton and Sickboy and Spud and Begbie a face, and a voice. The book was better because it gave all of them a personality that John Hodge didn't bother portraying i the screenplay, having to fit the entire saga into one and a half hours. I love this book because it's just pure fun and truth. But i love all of Welsh's other books because it's Irvine Welsh. Anyway, that's not the point. READ Trainspotting, and if you're a chick, you'll strangely fall in love with Renton, or even Sick Boy... and you'll miss them all after you turn the last page. But read Welsh's other books, and you'll find them again in great comfort. My point is, (if anyone is actually going to listen to anything that i've said), Get used to the dialect and read Trainspotting. 'Endy ****** story'. A telepathic note to Welsh: You write chicks like retards. Even the smart ones. To amazon.com: That wasn't a spiteful remark, I deeply feel that he should know this.

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Summary: The Ulimate Hit
Review: What an exilerating read! What a great book! If you intend to read one work of Scottish fiction make it this one. The dialect is wonderfully graphic, Irvine provides the best example of a working class voice and experience this century. It is much more detailed and entralling then the film. You'll miss Renton as soon as you put the book down. I know intend to read some other of Welsh's works.

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Summary: The decryption kills it
Review: The content could be worth a goldmine, the problem is I got so tired decrypting the dialect used to write the story I ended up throwing my book in the wastepaper basket after a hundred pages.

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Summary: Talk About Great Personality!!
Review: I loved the movie, but the book is 100 times better! The scottish takes a while to get used to, but it adds to the story. His complex way of entwining all of his characters keeps the book interesting, yet I could still pick it up and read each chapter seperately, as its own story. I haven't ever read a book like it, and I can't wait to read more of Welsh's works.