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Irvine Welsh
Born
in Leith, Scotland
September 27, 1958
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Genre
Influences
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Trainspotting
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published
1993
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7 editions
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Filth
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published
1998
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81 editions
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Porno (Mark Renton, #3)
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published
2002
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2 editions
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Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
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published
2012
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4 editions
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The Acid House
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published
1994
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10 editions
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Glue
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published
2001
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52 editions
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Marabou Stork Nightmares
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published
1997
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37 editions
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Ecstasy
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published
1996
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64 editions
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The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)
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published
2016
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29 editions
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The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs
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published
2006
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61 editions
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“Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
Polls
May 2016 New School Group Read
1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 478 pages
1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages
1903, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, 172 pages
1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 288 pages
1996, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 835 pages
1914, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages
1913, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 134 pages
1957, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 296 pages
1993, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, 448 pages
1949, The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, 276 pages
1922, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 356 pages
1936, Mephisto by Klaus Mann, 272 pages
1924, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 225 pages
1933, Lost Horizon by James Hilton, 241 pages
1989, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 544 pages
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