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  <title><![CDATA[Trainspotting]]></title>
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  <default_description>Ils sont quatre amis d'un quartier pourri d'Edimbourg partageant la m&#234;me passion pour le d&#233;lire &#224; hauts risques, celui de la piquouse fatale et de l'h&#233;ro&#239;ne, aussi efficacement destructrice qu'une bombe atomique dans un champ de coquelicots. Mais que faire d'autre quand on survit entre vols &#224; l'&#233;talage, assurance ch&#244;mage, soir&#233;es glauques et baston &#224; coups d'aiguilles &#224; tricoter. Entre deux pintes de bi&#232;re, chacun raconte sa vie et son quartier. Sick Boy qui voudrait travailler, Mark, persuad&#233; de pouvoir d&#233;crocher, Spud, niais et compl&#232;tement paum&#233; et Matty qui ne touche pas &#224; la dope, jusqu'au jour o&#249; il se laissera tenter. Pourtant, au milieu du d&#233;sespoir, surnage une envie de vivre plus forte que tout le reste. S'en sortir gr&#226;ce &#224; un dernier coup de bluff, tenter le tout pour le tout. &lt;P&gt;N&#233; en 1958, Irvine Welsh a &#233;t&#233; r&#233;parateur de t&#233;l&#233;, punk, agent immobilier, puis &#233;crivain. Ses influences litt&#233;raires se r&#233;sument &#224; Lou Reed et Iggy Pop. Et pourtant, il est responsable de l'un des plus grands succ&#232;s de librairie des ann&#233;es quatre-vingt-dix et du plus grand choc qu'ait subi la litt&#233;rature anglaise depuis bien longtemps. &lt;I&gt;Trainspotting&lt;/I&gt;, livre culte, a &#233;t&#233; adapt&#233; au cin&#233;ma par Dany Boyle. &lt;I&gt;--Stellio Paris&lt;/I&gt; </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1993</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fuck me insensible. Oh ya cunt, ya! Ah dinnae watch the movie, bit ma heid’s spinnin fae readin this shite, ah kin fuckin tell ye. The book’s no novel – mair a collection ay short stories, likesay, aboot a bunch ay Scot junkies. The cunts go aroond, fartin n shitein n shootin smack. The book i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30291786">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 09 20:08:44 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I imagine when people hear the title of this book, they immediately think something scene.  As if it's the story of a bunch of junkies in Scotland.  The thing is about Welsh is that the culture of the people who live on these streets is really a grand metaphor for all kinds of political criticisms a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12117314">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76097884">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[     I love this novel. I've read it three times, and I never re-read books. What surprised me at the first reading of this book was how disjointed it  was when compared to the movie. Only a fraction of the chapters are represented in the film version, and several characters are missing completely. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76097884">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15242419">
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  <read_at>Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading Trainspotting I had to ask myself what else I've been missing. The main characters are addicts, junkies, heavy drinkers and a sicko or two, with heroin as the star here. It's an alien culture to me, but I just couldn’t put the book down, dialect and all. I also have no clue about thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15242419">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5312522">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Irvine Welsh fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Those that know me are aware that I've never seriously (and can count on two fingers how often) done any serious drugs- the worse I 've tried was weed and it did absolutely nothing for me except make me feel like I was choking to death.  So..  why the attraction of Irvine Welsh's lovely books?  The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5312522">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4095915">
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    <body><![CDATA[I think one of my favorite parts about this book was the absorbing style of the difficult Scottish dialects. Welsh is doing the same thing for Edinburgh that Twain did for the deep south- establishing worthwhile and nearly tangible characters. Those well written voices are fairly haunting because th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4095915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14208060">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recently read this, one of my top all-time books, again. And I say everyone else should read it too (unless you have a weak-stomach when it comes to images of hard drug use and unpleasant bodily functions). As soon as you get used to the he Scottish slang and phonetic-spelling, you'll realize it's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14208060">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51066426">
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    <body><![CDATA[was little apprehensive when I started to read Trainspotting because before beginning it all I had heard about the book was that no one could get through it because the Scottish dialect the book is written in made it completely unintelligible for most.[return][return]However, after maybe two or thre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51066426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76854011">
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, what an atrocity against literature! And by the way &quot;Trainspotting&quot; is almost universally hailed by critics as something fresh, innovative and even &quot;the best thing that has happened to British writing for decades&quot;. If so, I would like to offer my deepest condolescences to Bri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76854011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72274830">
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    <name><![CDATA[Anthony]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay - it hurts me to say this, because really, it's not how I usually approach these things, but I think the film was better than the book. *glances behind to check if karma is about to crap on me from a great height*<br/><br/>Admittedly, I saw the film first, which always changes one's perceptio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72274830">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60750669">
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been putting off reading <em>Trainspotting</em> for years, so when I finally got around to it, I didn't come to the book full of enthusiasm. I trudged through the first third - the stories didn't grab me, the characters didn't come to life. But, gradually, the shifting viewpoints allowed Renton, Sick Bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60750669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6213648">
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    <name><![CDATA[Charmlessman77]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favourite books.  Even being Scottish I had a hard time getting through certain sections of the book, with the East Coast accents used throughout, but I think this made it even more rewarding.  Never having done anythign stronger than alcohol in my life I was interested to learn so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6213648">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75977915">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; Choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrrassmen...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75977915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61258789">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book. Definitely one of the best books I've read in the past few years. Initially, you'll probably find the Scottish dialect almost impossible to decode and a big hassle. This seemingly foreign language ends up being one of the best things about Trainspotting, because it simply allow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61258789">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56855475">
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    <body><![CDATA[The vibrancy and dialogue of Trainspotting is its forte.  It's a harrowing funny sneak into the life of junkies in Leith, Scotland, as told by a group of friends, each taking his turn to narrate.  The main junky, Rents, is a smart lost one, and despite his despair and reversals, you start feeling fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56855475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to confess that I bought this book &quot;back in the day&quot;, before the film adaptation, solely on the strength of the cover, and despite the &quot;difficult&quot; appearance of the writing.<br/><br/>Which is something to address straight off: my edition had no glossary in the back, whic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72865945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The main difficulty I had with this book is its simulation of the Scottish dialect through the employment of distorted orthography (“tae” for “to,” “fae” for “from,” etc.)  After a while, though, I found myself getting used to the odd spellings.  It helped that I had seen the film ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72105450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At first it was really hard to get through, given that it's  basically written the way Scottish people talk - accents, slang and all.  And who can ever understand them?  Luckily there's a glossary in the back (which I didn't even realize until halfway through) which helps a bit.  <br/><br/>It's de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54145599">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Trainspotting is difficult to get immersed into due to the heavy use of 'street speak', but once you are familiar with the dialogue, it becomes smoother. I had to laugh at the glossary at the back which was specifically put there for North American readers, but it was very handy for English readers ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41209650">more...</a>]]></body>
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