Acid House, The
13 journalers for this copy...
This is a collection of short stories. It's vintage Irvine Welsh and I guess if you like his stuff you'll like this. It's certainly brilliantly written but I always find with his books that all the characters are interested in is taking as many hard drugs as possible and I therefore have a very hard time finding them at all interesting.
Posted to Rackyross.
Thanks very much FriarTuck for sending me this book! I like Irvine Welsh books, and I hope this is just as good as the other ones I read.
Journal Entry 4 by RACKYROSS at A una amiga in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province Argentina on Sunday, January 30, 2005
Released 19 yrs ago (1/24/2005 UTC) at A una amiga in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province Argentina
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Back to my beloved Argentina, I left the book in the house of a very dear friend, so that she'll have the chance of reading something in English!!! Now keep saying I never think of you my dear Patito!! (Q yegua q sos!!!).By the way, the book was quite good, although not as good as Trainspotting. I know they even shot a film inspired by the book, but I haven't seen it.. Is it good or bad?
Back to my beloved Argentina, I left the book in the house of a very dear friend, so that she'll have the chance of reading something in English!!! Now keep saying I never think of you my dear Patito!! (Q yegua q sos!!!).By the way, the book was quite good, although not as good as Trainspotting. I know they even shot a film inspired by the book, but I haven't seen it.. Is it good or bad?
The book's back in my hands... Will try to set up a bookray to have it travelling the world over!!
Ok, I've decided to set up an International bookray for this book. Should you be interested just PM me and I'll add you to the list. Both surface and air mail will be accepted, and if you have some problems in shipping internationally just let me know and I'll try to put you before another bookcrosser from your same country or, at least, continent! Please, add an entry when you receive the book, so we'll all know that it didn't get lost, and another one when you release it, to let us know what you think of the book! No limit of people here!
So, here we go, this is the list:
kizmiaz (Portugal)
So, here we go, this is the list:
hank-chinaski(Germany)
melanthy (Greece)
inngrid (France)
jubby (Australia)
verenka (Austria)
LESEHEST (Norway)
pirullina (Italy)
Drowner (Portugal)
MrAntipyrine (Portugal)
lisatam (Portugal)
TheBowieFollies(United States) <-- The book is here
salinger007 (United States)
mnewman (United States)
Enidq (United States)
mel1723 (Netherlands)
Journal Entry 7 by RACKYROSS at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Friday, December 2, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (12/2/2005 UTC) at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES: The bookray started! The book is off to Portugal!
Got it yesterday, thanks RACKYROSS and don't worry I'll put the BCID label on the inside cover. One more to read before I start on this one.
This is quite a selection of short stories, raw, rude and life like. Even if the main subject of most of the stories is a very serious one, drugs and ways to enjoy them, I found myself smiling and laughing out loud often by the way that they're told.Not all the stories are awesome, some are just great and others not so good. The ones I enjoyed the most were: "Eurotrash", "Stoke Newington Blues", "The Last Resort On the Adriatic", "Sexual Disaster Quartet", "Snuff" and although I loved the idea behind "Where the Debris Meets the Sea" I thought it turns out quite poor.
But my top pick goes to "Granny's Old Junk" and "A Smart Cunt", these are really over the top.
The way the characters lead their lives is very realistic and european, especially small, developing european countries where chances at real life dwindle every day.
This was a very enjoyable read, but there were a couple of stories that ah jist couldn't get inta becoose of tha thick accent that tha narrator uses, ya ken?
Sending it to Germany today.
Journal Entry 10 by 
hank-chinaski
from Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Thursday, December 29, 2005
hank-chinaski from Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Thursday, December 29, 2005
Came with the mail today, looks great! Thanx to RACKYROSS and kizmiaz.
Journal Entry 11 by hank-chinaski from Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Friday, February 10, 2006
hank-chinaski from Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Friday, February 10, 2006
Now why should anybody take drugs if they can read books like this one instead? With the single exception of the title story (which is just a wee bit too weird even for me), I enjoyed each and every one of them. They're brilliantly written, witty, extremely vivid and bursting of excellent ideas. Some of my personal favorites (although it's hard to pick them out of this gorgeous stuff) are Eurotrash, The Last Resort on the Adriatic, A Blockage in the System, Granny's Old Junk, The House of John Deaf, and Lisa's Mum Meets the Queen Mum, which is just another example for them not all being about bevvy 'n drugs. And then, of course, the masterpiece: A Smart Cunt. The hero just can't cope with the loss of his mother and his girlfriend, and instead of trying to make some sense out of his loveless life, he takes refuge to drugs and reading biographies. Best book I've read so far this year.
Yes, in spite of all, I'd maybe give Garland a bell. London had been starting to feel like Edinburgh had before I'd left it. Gleaves, May, even Darren, Avril, Cliff, Sandra and Gerard; they all constituted a set of expectations which snapped around me like a sprung trap. You can only be free for so long, then the chains start to bind you. The answer is to keep moving.
Off to melanthy by snailmail, enjoy!
Yes, in spite of all, I'd maybe give Garland a bell. London had been starting to feel like Edinburgh had before I'd left it. Gleaves, May, even Darren, Avril, Cliff, Sandra and Gerard; they all constituted a set of expectations which snapped around me like a sprung trap. You can only be free for so long, then the chains start to bind you. The answer is to keep moving.
Off to melanthy by snailmail, enjoy!
BOOK RING!A wonderfull way to read one of the best writer of our time.
Received, thank you Melanthy and RACKYROSS! I have a significant number of TBR books already, but I will do my best...
I enjoyed this book. A bit difficult to read, though, because my english isn't perfect, let alone my scottish (I couldn't help smiling when reading kizmiaz'JE)!
These short stories and novels describe a squalid universe that made me feel uneasy sometimes, but with great humor, intelligence and creativity. Also, Irvine provides a very moving abundance of details when it is about drug taking.
I read Trainspotting in French years ago, and I didn't like as much as these stories... Maybe it is the short story format, or maybe the language.
Thank you for the ray, Rackyross. I will post it to Australia some time this week.
Sent to Jubby on May 27th.
These short stories and novels describe a squalid universe that made me feel uneasy sometimes, but with great humor, intelligence and creativity. Also, Irvine provides a very moving abundance of details when it is about drug taking.
I read Trainspotting in French years ago, and I didn't like as much as these stories... Maybe it is the short story format, or maybe the language.
Thank you for the ray, Rackyross. I will post it to Australia some time this week.
Sent to Jubby on May 27th.
Well, would you look at what arrived in the post yesterday!
I am currently reading another bookring book, but I plan to this one soon.
Thank you very much for sharing this book with me ( and for the little postcard inside from Inngrid (bearing the inscription: Welcome to Scotland).
I've also PMed verenka for contact details.
Have a good weekend!
I am currently reading another bookring book, but I plan to this one soon.
Thank you very much for sharing this book with me ( and for the little postcard inside from Inngrid (bearing the inscription: Welcome to Scotland).
I've also PMed verenka for contact details.
Have a good weekend!
Alright, I will admit that I did not read all of this book, but I read enough (and I have to get it into the post).
'Eurotrash' was by far the best story that I read. It was the first story of his that I have read (and I have read 'Trainspotting', 'Filth', 'Glue' and 'Porno') that I didn't have to speak the text aloug to work out what he was phonetically saying!
I felt that the story didn't need the last twist, that the character of Chrissie was plausible as was, but a well crafted story.
Welsh writes about the seedy, underbelly of the world, one of junkies, alcoholics and violence. One that most of us (hopefully) will not emerge into, but a world that does indeed exist, and deserves to be explored.
The other stories I read were alright, but, nothing new, and felt like they were the earlier experiments for his later works.
Thank you for sharing this book with me.
'Eurotrash' was by far the best story that I read. It was the first story of his that I have read (and I have read 'Trainspotting', 'Filth', 'Glue' and 'Porno') that I didn't have to speak the text aloug to work out what he was phonetically saying!
I felt that the story didn't need the last twist, that the character of Chrissie was plausible as was, but a well crafted story.
Welsh writes about the seedy, underbelly of the world, one of junkies, alcoholics and violence. One that most of us (hopefully) will not emerge into, but a world that does indeed exist, and deserves to be explored.
The other stories I read were alright, but, nothing new, and felt like they were the earlier experiments for his later works.
Thank you for sharing this book with me.
Journal Entry 17 by jubby at BookRing in Bookring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, June 18, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (6/18/2006 UTC) at BookRing in Bookring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Posted off to verenka.
Posted off to verenka.
Journal Entry 18 by verenka from Wien - irgendwo / Vienna - somewhere, Wien Austria on Friday, June 30, 2006
I received this in the mail yesterday. I will start reading it today, so it can travel on swiftly.
Journal Entry 19 by verenka from Wien - irgendwo / Vienna - somewhere, Wien Austria on Friday, July 7, 2006
I never really got into the book.
First it was difficult to read because of the bits written in scots. It felt like hours just to read a single page. Besides I didn't care much for most of the stories. A lot of them seemed random and pointless, especially the ones with supernatural storylines thrown in. They were either too carefully crafted and artificial or too random. I don't normally mind the bizarre, but in these stories I found it to be neither original nor funny.
I had my occasional laughs and I liked Eurotrash and most of the Smart Cunt, so I'll give it 6 points.
First it was difficult to read because of the bits written in scots. It felt like hours just to read a single page. Besides I didn't care much for most of the stories. A lot of them seemed random and pointless, especially the ones with supernatural storylines thrown in. They were either too carefully crafted and artificial or too random. I don't normally mind the bizarre, but in these stories I found it to be neither original nor funny.
I had my occasional laughs and I liked Eurotrash and most of the Smart Cunt, so I'll give it 6 points.
Journal Entry 20 by verenka at A Fellow Bookcrosser in By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, July 20, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (7/20/2006 UTC) at A Fellow Bookcrosser in By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Now that I received an address, I'll post the obok off to Lesehest tomorrow. Sorry for keeping you guys waiting!
Now that I received an address, I'll post the obok off to Lesehest tomorrow. Sorry for keeping you guys waiting!
just came back home from ghana today, and guess what was waiting for me....? Will read and pass on... Thanx for sharing!
Sent to pirullina in Italy...
Read only half; was not in the mood for this kind of book right now.
But it was not all that bad...
Enjoy:)
Read only half; was not in the mood for this kind of book right now.
But it was not all that bad...
Enjoy:)
the book is with me now!
Thank you all!
Thank you all!
the book is in Portugal again :)
thanks
11/4/2007
Well, i didn't read the book, after all. Huge TBR pile.
The book was sent to lisatam, today.
thanks
11/4/2007
Well, i didn't read the book, after all. Huge TBR pile.
The book was sent to lisatam, today.
Journal Entry 25 by lisatam from Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Saturday, April 14, 2007
Acabei de receber! Vou tentar ser ´breve.
Obrigada pela partilha.
Obrigada pela partilha.
I found this book quite difficult to read, because of the use of the scots accent. Anyway, some of the stories were quite enjoyable. The book has been sent to TheBowieFollies(United States. Thanks for sharing!
rackyross me ole china! long time!! and nearly two years later, what a proverbial trek this one has had, aye Im looking well forward to reading this radge book, Im from Liverpool but have a hint of tae scots in mae and mebbe Im a bit crazy too ;)
This looks like a tidy one oh aye!
Miss Portugal cheers for sending it to me, I love how this book really went the gamut
see yae soon
VEronica :)
This looks like a tidy one oh aye!
Miss Portugal cheers for sending it to me, I love how this book really went the gamut
see yae soon
VEronica :)
och aye the no...
I have been trying to summon everyone on this list, its a veritable ghost town inactive members and I just sent off an address request to Enid, I would like to post this out, anyone?: someone please ? Its a well radge one, Helpppppp
Its easier to summon the seven goddesses than a bookcrossers address! Whats going on here????
I have been trying to summon everyone on this list, its a veritable ghost town inactive members and I just sent off an address request to Enid, I would like to post this out, anyone?: someone please ? Its a well radge one, Helpppppp
Its easier to summon the seven goddesses than a bookcrossers address! Whats going on here????
