O4sCc [Mobile book] Skagboys Online [O4sCc.ebook] Skagboys Pdf Free Irvine Welsh audiobook | *ebooks | Download PDF | ePub | DOC Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #401226 in Books W. W. Norton n Company 2012-09-17Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.60 x 1.40 x 6.60l, 2.00 #File Name: 0393088731544 pages | File size: 57.Mb Irvine Welsh : Skagboys before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Skagboys: 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Scotland's DickensBy Charles HargreavesOne of the best books this author has written, it is remarkable in scope, humor, depth of character, the ability to emit the most genuinely skin- crawlyingly disturbing scenes, followed by some of the funniest -- and always written with the unflinching respect of truth. I don't understand how he does it, but as busy as I am, I read this 500-plus page book at every possible free moment, sad now that it's over. And don't be put off by it's overly grim cover -- sorry publisher, but it just doesn't fit the book, in my opinion.Just as with his other books, Welsh writes with phoenetically-accurate dialogue -- it takes some time to get used to it, and I recommend your first read be a good 50 pages to get the flow of the writing in your head. In Skagboys he does something even more remarkable, which is to write his different characters with appropriately different accents, reflecting their origin and place in life. I found I carried their voices around in my head during the days of reading Skagboys.I have listened to interviews with Welsh and it is clear, as I have often heard said, that he is a genuinely decent and incredibly nice guy. Somehow that makes reading him even more pleasurable, for this reader anyway.Do yourself a favor, and read this book.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Great book. Maybe a bit long.By EJonThis book is a must read for Welsh fans. If you read the cover, you know how it starts, and if you read or saw Trainspotting, you know how it ends, so it would be hard to give any spoilers even if I were inclined to.The central story is the decline of Mark Renton, who starts out as a university student with a wonderful girlfriend and a real shot at "getting out" and ends up, well, you know. That theme is compelling, but the book also cycles through vignettes of the other main characters: Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie, as well as several other peripheral characters. With the exception of Begbie - who is a constant through all three books - they all "fall", but since they don't have as far to fall as Renton, they pretty quickly end up in the state you meet them in Trainspotting. The stories are poignant and well written, but after a while, I did find that they became a bit repetitive, and it became a bit of a slog to get to the end - particularly, as I said, when I knew pretty much what the end was going to be. Personally, I think it would have been more effective if it had been pruned a bit.Much has been said about the phonetic dialectic writing. I only saw the movie Trainspotting, but if I remember Porno correctly, he only used dialectic writing for some characters (Spud?). In this book, it's most characters. I'm pretty ambivalent about it. I think it adds a bit of flavor, but on the other hand, I would have been happy for him to only use it when someone was talking. Since he used it for everything, I eventually just stopeed noticing.So definitely well worth reading, but you may find yourself skimming in places.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. 4.5 Stars. Funny, true and tragicBy JJGitesA fantastic book. All of the sick twisted humor of Acidhouse Trainspotting, but from a much more mature writer. While three full novels about these characters might have been too much, Welsh writes about them (doing the same stuff), in a more insightful and - dare I say - gentler manner. I had to put this book down several times because it was - by turns - tough, serious and wickedly funny. The novel is also a stinging indictment of the chaos that Thatcher and Heroin inflicted on Scotland in the 1980s. Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welshrsquo;s colorful miscreants first went wrong. Marked by Irvine Welshrsquo;s scabrous humor and raw Scottish vernacular, Skagboys transports us to 1980s Edinburgh, where the Trainspotting crew is just getting started. Mark Renton has it all: the first in his family to attend university, he has a pretty girlfriend and a great social life. But when economic uncertainties and family problems intervene, Rent succumbs to the defeatism?not to mention the drug use?that has taken hold in Edinburghrsquo;s tougher quarters. His friends are responding according to personality. Laid off, Spud Murphy is paralyzed in the face of long-term unemployment. Sick Boy, supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, is scamming and hustling for money and drugs. And meanwhile, psycho Franco Begbie is scaring the hell out of everyone. Darkly humorous, Skagboys gives a gritty and gripping portrait of a time, not unlike ours, when money was scarce, unemployment was high, and drugs seemed the answer. "One of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit and force." "--Times Literary Supplement"" ""The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent." "--The Times"About the AuthorIrvine Welsh is the best-selling author of Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Glue, Porno, Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares, The Acid House, Skagboys, and, most recently, A Decent Ride. He currently lives in Chicago. T2 Trainspotting was first published as Porno. 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