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Originally Posted by Aurora
I'm dying to read The Acid House by Irvine Welsh, it's a collection of short stories.
Has anyone read it and thinks it's a good read? I love trainspotting but I haven't read any other of Welsh's novels to know what it should be like!  |
It's the closest thing to
Trainspotting that Irvine Welsh has ever written, mostly due to the fact that both books came out and or were written around the same time. It's half short stories with a novella tacked on towards the end that features a cameo of Spud. The novella is really where the book shines, but there are some pretty good short stories in it, "Eurotrash" and "the Granton Star Cause" being my two favourites. That said though, don't expect it to be the exact same as
Trainspotting as a few of the stories are pretty out there like "The Acid House" and "Snowman Building Parts for Rico the Squirrel".
I would also recommend the sequel to
Trainspotting, called
Porno for your next book. It incorporates some characters from a previous Welsh book, but you don't really need to read that one to understand what's going on. Apparently there's a prequel to
Trainspotting coming out sometime this year called
Skag Boys that explains why most of the main characters turned to drugs and gives a lot of context to their lives, which I'm actually looking forward to. I haven't been too keen on a lot of Welsh's work since '98, but I'm hoping this one is a real return to form for him.