<![CDATA[If You Liked School, You'll Love Work]]>

false <![CDATA[If You Liked School, You'll Love Work]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178239469m/774964.jpg 774964 5 These five stories remind us that Welsh is a master of the shorter form, a brilliant storyteller and, unarguably, one of the funniest and filthiest writers alive. In Rattlesnakes, when three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, how is it that one find himself performing fallatio on another while being watched by the bare-breasted Madeline and two armed Mexicans? Who is the mysterious Korean chef who has moved in with Chicago socialite Kendra Cross, in The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park, and what does he have to do with the disappearance of her faithful pooch, Toto? In the title story, can Mickey Baker, an English bar-owner on the Costa Brava, manage to keep all his balls in the air: maintaining his barmaid Teresa’s body weight at the sexual maximum while attending to the youthful Persephone, and dodging his persistent ex-wife and a pair of Spanish gangsters? In Miss Arizona, Raymond Wilson Butler is writing a biography of a legendary U.S. movie director. By what train of events does he end up as a piece of movie memorabilia? And how, in The Kingdom of Fife, will Jason King — diminutive ex-trainee jockey and Subbuteo star of Cowdenbeath — fare in the world of middle-class female equestrians? From the Trade Paperback edition. 88923 2007 If You Liked School, You'll Love Work total:332|5:26|4:112|3:120|2:61|1:13| 332 1073 613 79 2 2 true false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 22:51:03 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 21:07:25 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 10:11:37 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 10:31:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 17 19:58:34 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 23:42:39 -0700 2009
Rattlesnakes is built around a gay panic joke which is inherently lame because it's a gay panic joke and lamer still because it's not even an ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Feb 13 22:04:33 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 16:26:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jan 28 12:10:15 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 12:18:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 13:01:23 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 13:14:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 18:21:48 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 05:57:35 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Dec 21 08:04:43 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 08:05:12 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jun 19 10:06:45 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 10:13:02 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 03 08:03:34 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 08:05:09 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 11 08:19:16 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 08:20:06 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 29 14:14:49 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 14:16:09 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 06:18:18 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 07 12:21:14 -0800 2007

This one goes on a really weird tangent, if that's actually possible. One story is about an up and coming director who cros...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 16:07:49 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 16:08:24 -0800 2009 ]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 16 13:06:32 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 13:09:16 -0700 2008
The first half is mostly stories that encompass the extreme depravity of the human race.

The second half deals with a young man named Jason from Scotland and tells the story from different points of view.

I've come t...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Mar 25 09:06:45 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 20:47:35 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 20:47:35 -0700 2008 Irvine Welsh needs to stick to Scottish losers. His American voice just plain fails. The short stories had a 'poorly done Palahniuk' feel to them. The novella achieves its rather pedestrian goals in an uncompelling manner. I love Welsh, but... (Of course there's a but...) I could set his l...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 17:27:17 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 17:32:34 -0700 2007
This was far and away the easist of his books to read. It's short stories, and not much of it is written phoenetically in a Scottish dialect.

The stories themse...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Dec 04 10:27:47 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 10:28:05 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 13:37:17 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 13:37:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Feb 09 21:56:56 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 21:58:35 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=774964