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  <title><![CDATA[The Acid House]]></title>
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  <default-description>Made up of three of Welsh's most powerful stories, all come from the rough, tough badlands of the schemes of North Edinburgh and take us into a dark but hilarious world of drugs, deviant sex and football hooliganism fired by Welsh's passion and fierce steaming rock and roll.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1994</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Irvine Welsh]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 26 03:45:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Holy shit, how could I have forgotten to add this to my list already, this collection of breakneck vileness, this wretchedness you wrench your head away from in shame that it happens to be so gripping and so funny. In the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind they have invented a method for er...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50492423">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Hardcore Welsh fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 24 11:15:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 29 21:54:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let me say that Irvine Welsh is my all time favorite author. Books such as Trainspotting and Ecstasy are pinnacles of modern fiction (alright, not so modern anymore, I guess). His stories are always insane, his characters flawed but wonderful, and the usage of Scottish vernacular is the coolest way ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57158897">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Scottish soccer hooligans]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[the Goodwill Bookstore shelves]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 22 17:49:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 29 17:41:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Welsh's imagination is twisted and a bit dark, and I love him for that.  However, light reading this is not...the Scottish vernacular in which every story is written makes for often laborious reading until you get the gist of what the characters are talking about.  Contractions like &quot;disnae&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60704410">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9920834">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 04 06:41:06 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure the novella &quot;A Smart Cunt&quot; was in here. Though I have zero recollection of it now, at the time I read that I thought it was brilliant, and because I was bored on vacation in London with nothing better to do, I wrote what I believe was the only fan letter to an author I've e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9920834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36424601">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who like raunchy humour and drug books.]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[I saw trainspotting and decided to check out more of Irvine Wels]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 28 16:29:22 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 19 13:33:38 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me laugh so much. It's a bunch of short stories and there are two that really stuck out for me. In one a guy drops acid and ends up switching bodies with a baby (or thinking he did, I can't remember). The baby with his adult brain gets off on breast feeding and watching his parents ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36424601">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13033847">
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    <body><![CDATA[A substantial amount of time has passed since I completed a full read of THE ACID HOUSE. I admit, my memory of the material has weakened, and only increases so the further I distance myself from the scripture and the closer my appointment with death approaches. There for, I would have to say, it wou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13033847">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66575845">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 07 14:50:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 15 10:52:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read as much of this book as I could. I'll admit I did have to skip over a few stories because of the overly excessive scottishness that made my brain sizzle but other than that it was an entertaining read. Not every story had the same effect, some didn’t do anything for me but there were qui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66575845">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54749082">
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  <date_added>Sat May 02 20:43:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wretched bleak filth! I don't really have a problem with wretched bleak filthy stuff, in fact I quite like it in small doses if I am in the right mood. I just hate techno, a lot... and overdosing on the monotonies of depraved, lazy, manipulative and vicious characters.]]></body>
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    <review id="42873284">
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    <body><![CDATA[Totally twisted short stories by radical writter Irvine Welsh. Since Welsh writes the actual Scottish accent, it may take a few re-reads of parts to understand what's happening but it's worth it. ]]></body>
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    <review id="6268276">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Welsh is a mad man.  This collection of stories is great, although to be honest, there were a few i thought were just <em>okay</em>.  He has such interesting ideas though, for example, the one where the two office co-workers are both fantasizing about the other at the same time, and how he splits the page do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6268276">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55522592">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat May 09 17:53:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 05 18:57:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've read anything by Irvine Welsh (or seen the film Trainspotting), you should know what you're getting here: drugs and alcohol, working-class and chavvy Edinburghians., football, and a healthy dose of punk rock attitude.  What Welsh also shows here, though, is a sharp, wicked sense of humour....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55522592">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46783461">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories moved and disturbed me at times, but it felt great when it was happening. It gave a glimpse into Welsh created world, a world completely different and raw.]]></body>
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    <review id="31666056">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Irvine Welsh is so... real, you can't help but fall in love with him (especially if you're a fellow writer).  He can take a  pile of steaming dung next to a park bench and write a tale about it that people will actually read through to the finish.<br/><br/>He's intriguing that way; there is no sub...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31666056">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42246673">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 07 13:16:47 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A daring collection of pieces. Really pushes the envelope. Very dark and thematically bleak, but Irvine's got a unique, engaging style that's hard to resist.]]></body>
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    <review id="63777039">
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 16 15:45:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you want legal access to the Edinburgh drug scene, this is your book (or should I say these are your novellas?).]]></body>
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    <review id="34159446">
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    <body><![CDATA[ This book is demented and mind twisting, there is always a twist at the end of the chapters. It is full of short stories that will blow your mind. It is a little hard to understand some of the stuff they are saying in the book becuase how they spell it for their accents. The author's descriptive wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34159446">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60299691">
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 19 09:37:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Irvine Welsh shows his sick side in these short stories, and reveals yours by how much you will enjoy them!]]></body>
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    <review id="41631088">
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    <body><![CDATA[a collection of odd stories some insanely good others sub par. very much a hit and miss book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[as someone else says you have to be in the mood, and I'm not often (it's old age...)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[freaky movie....based on this book!!! But that is Irvine Welsh... :)]]></body>
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