false 2285386 6 2291591 book 26 8 2008 Crime total:175|5:24|4:58|3:69|2:17|1:7| 175 600 351 45 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 4 0 false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 09:51:09 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 10:03:19 -0800 2009
The thing that stands this book above other UK crime novels (and I i...more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 4 0 true Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 20:58:51 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 21:06:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 0 0 false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 17:22:07 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 17:27:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 4 0 false Thu Oct 29 08:41:11 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 24 09:12:46 -0800 2009
In Crime, Irvine Welsh, returns as avenging angel of victims,and
as in "Fortune's Always Hiding" and "Marabou Stork's" ... plunges
into the depths of human nightmares. While in those two...more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 3 0 false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 13:55:27 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 14:03:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 2 0 false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 06:46:56 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 06:56:19 -0700 2009
This story felt like one he'd been made to tell by an angry school teacher, so he stared at his shoes and muttered his way through it. The change of perspective from one character to the next was non existent, and not in...more...]]> 3797566 0393068196 9780393068191 6 2 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3797566.Crime_A_Novel 3 0 false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 12:30:32 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 12:30:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 1 0 false Fri Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 09:49:10 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 30 21:56:31 -0700 2008 Trainspotting, forget it. It was more like a really bad parody of Ian Rankin.

DI Ray Lennox from Edinburgh goes on holiday to Miami with his fiancee Trudi. Lennox is emotionally shredded by his failure to save a young girl from a paed...more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 4 0 false Thu Dec 11 14:48:37 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 14:55:20 -0800 2008
Rays character is fleshed out in real time events in florida, flashbacks to a child abduction/murder case in Edinburgh and to Rays own childhood.

Tackles difficult t...more...]]> 2285385 0224080520 9780224080521 10 2 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285385.Crime 3 0 false Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 23:55:37 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 00:10:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 4 0 false Fri Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 06:34:14 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 12:32:23 -0700 2008 1
honestly, it took me awhile to ge...more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 4 0 false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 19:44:31 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 19:47:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 1 0 false Tue Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 11:15:39 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 11:43:36 -0800 2009
Irvine Welsh is one of my fave authors. His book "Trainspotting" is one of my fave books of all time. His other works were never as great as "Trainspotting", but were usually pretty good reads. I didn't even finish this ...more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 3 0 false Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 09:33:27 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 06:19:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 1 1 false Sat Aug 30 22:03:23 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 11:38:41 -0800 2008 Seriously, I am upset.

It's not just the American setting...and the cynical, cruel, unfriendly gaze on American culture (which I could understand.) It's a claustrophobia in the story-- that makes me itch to escape and throw away the book. I felt like the writer...more...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 4 0 false Mon Aug 03 17:41:27 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 17:45:52 -0700 2009 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 0 0 false Sat Nov 22 17:17:04 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 17:17:37 -0800 2008 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 0 0 false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 13:52:56 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 13:54:28 -0800 2009 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Aug 05 11:42:54 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 11:43:25 -0700 2009 http://www.hipsterbookclub.com/reviews/c...]]> 2285386 0224080539 9780224080538 148 37 3.43 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime 3 0 false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 07:18:11 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 18:22:20 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2285386