For those with an interest for Irvine Welsh, I heartily recommend the
bright and moving "Maribou Stork Nightmares", perhaps his best work to
date. His caustic, cynical sense of humor, strangely enough, makes you
empathize with the protagonist -- even though the main character is clearly
a rat bastard, he's still a human being.
I am currently reading Ballard's "Crash" and re-reading Hickman's "Twins"
trilogy.
Alex
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:53:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Clow <stained@interlog.com>
Subject: Re: (idm) reading list
...
The reason I've set it aside, though, is the second book I'm reading:
"Filth" by Irvine Welsh (best known as the author of "Trainspotting"). I
just started this one this morning, actually, and I'm about 50 pages in,
but it's as good, funny and dark as I expected. Main character is a
disgusting, hateful, racist, sexist, corrupt sargeant on the Edinburgh
police force. Imagine "Bad Lieutenant" turned into a black comedy and
relocated to Scotland, plus Welsh's usual playing about with the written
word.
...
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