QfAUD [Library ebook] The Blade Artist Online [QfAUD.ebook] The Blade Artist Pdf Free Irvine Welsh ePub | *DOC | audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF #772521 in Books imusti 2016-06-28 2016-06-28Format: International EditionOriginal language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.40 x 1.10 x 6.30l, 1.25 #File Name: 022410215X448 pagesVINTAGE | File size: 60.Mb Irvine Welsh : The Blade Artist before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The Blade Artist: 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I'm not gay but I'd marry Irvine WelshBy PearlyBakerIrvine Welsh is my favorite author of all time and I love how he continues to study even the most obscure characters from Trainspotting. This piece starts out so lovely and beautiful and full of hope that I was almost brought to tears by Jim's family life. I had no idea "Jim" was the ongoing tale of a character I absolutely hated from Skagboys and Trainspotting. But I loved him in this tale and so it was a tough transition for me to see him slip so easily back into complete sociopathy. Of course by the end I lost all hope for humanity and remembered that Dr. Cox was right in Scrubs when he said, "People aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling."0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Begbie = Evil = FearBy DavidFrom the first time I read The Acid House I've been a huge fan of Irvine Welsh. Not all his works have been up to that standard, and some have exceeded it, such as the excellent Glue. Few characters in any of these works are as compelling as that of Francis Begbie. Anyone who's ever spent any time in Edinburgh, or anywhere else in Scotland for that matter, knows or has met a Begbie. They are not nice - and they're not meant to be. He's the one character in Trainspotting i felt to be totally believable (except for maybe Spud), and i was disappointed he was reduced to an extended cameo role in Porno (although the climatic Begbie = Evil = Fear with Renton is the best bit of the book). So i was chuffed when i heard he'd be getting his "own" storyline in The Blade Artist. Glue it is not, and the beginning and ending are both equally unbelievable (for entirely different reasons), however the middle 3rd of the book is classic Welsh. You could argue that it is 2 fantasy segments sandwiching the real sequel to the events in Porno, and maybe that's not enough for some folks but its enough for me.One wee suggestion for Irvine though - dump Juice Terry. As a plot device he was ok in Glue, and at the end of that book there was a hint he was on the verge of transformation, but from Porno onwards he reverts to being such a 1 dimensional character he'd be better off out of the story arcs entirely.Looking forward to next installment of General Franco....2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Calculated and DisturbingBy coreyjWelsh has written another great US/Leith novel with all the deliberate and measured violence of plastic surgery. With a reformed former character, Welsh takes us on a walk through old demons and new revelations that leave a very disquieting turn in the stomach. Not for the feint of heart. The most terrifying character in Trainspotting returns -- with his own novel. Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life -- and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he's a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary.But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies -- and, most alarmingly, his former self -- Francis seems to have other ideas.When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband's violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly. The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel -- ultra violent but curiously redemptive -- and it marks the return of one of modern fiction's most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting. "Back to his violent best... Dark, gruesome and captivating." -- Sam Parker * Esquire * "It's a thriller in the mode of Tarantino making war films or westerns; hiding grand themes within genre." -- Alan Bett * Skinny * "Intense, electrifying... Welsh has delivered a tremendously entertaining book - a whodunit, a thriller, and a probing character study - that's obsessed with conflict, both physical and mental... A surprisingly poignant, evocative read - highly recommended." * Mr Hyde * "In a year when filming begins on Danny Boyle's sequel of sorts to Trainspotting, it seems perfect timing to revisit its most visceral force." * Skinny * "[Begbie's] intelligence and instinct make him compelling, and Welsh keep the plot roaring along... This is a dark, guilty pleasure and written with - it seems to me - the cinema screen in mind." -- Kate Muir * The Times * "Welsh's ear for dialect is superb, and the opportunity to observe Edinburgh's dark underbelly from the perspective of someone used to a gentler lifestyle far away leads to shrewd cultural insights." * Mail on Sunday * "While Welsh's sense of humour is never far from the surface of his writings...this is very much a work of dark crime fiction rather than comedy or social satire with a touch of James Ellroy." -- Hannah McGill * Scotsman * "The Blade Artist is lean...clever and propulsive. The shorter length concentrates Welsh's energy... There is a reason people still read him." -- Orlando Bird * Daily Telegraph * "No one writes about violence and class with such wit and insight as Welsh. He's a social satirist of the highest order and, with its themes of vengeance and redemption, this is a deceptively comic book with a very dark heart." * Metro * "Welsh may be a reformed character but he's still got it, and The Blade Artist is fab." -- Katy Guest * Independent on Sunday * "Fans are in for a treat" * UK Press Syndication * "This Ultra-violent but curiously redemptive new novel is both elegant and electrifying." * Glasgow West End * "An ultra-violent odyssey through the darkest recesses of urban life." * Hot Press * "Fast and fizzing, compulsively readable." * Sunday Mirror * "Horribly enjoyable" * Mail on Sunday *About the AuthorIRVINE WELSH is the author of nine previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago. 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