Trainspotting?
Sup, i was woundering if anyone has read [U]Trainspotting[/U] i heard Chuck talk about it in the Documentary "Postcards From The Future." I looks interesting and i didn't want to rent it from the library. So if anyone has read it please tell me if it is worth the time and money?
yeah but i like to write in them, mark the pages and stuff. I also like to read while in the bathroom.
Why can't you take a library book into the bathroom?
People aren't going to know what you've been up to unless one of the things you like to write in your books is 'I'm taking a dump!'
No, but when i purchase a new book it is a clean book. Call me a germaphob but i don't want to touch and get totally imeresed in a book that some guy/girl took a crap with.
[QUOTE=GasPoweredBrontosaurus]No, but when i purchase a new book it is a clean book. Call me a germaphob but i don't want to touch and get totally imeresed in a book that some guy/girl took a crap with.[/QUOTE]
i find this very funny and grose
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it is a problem that prevents me from living a normal life. I have a antibookpoopaphobia- fear of touching a book that someone has done thier business with.
The fecial matter is all over the book. Then it gets all over you as you go about your day.
wtf? mate
thanks dude i will pick it up tomorrow
A box of disposable latex gloves goes for pretty cheap these days, and a lot of drug stores have them. It's certainly cheaper than therapy.
didn't they make a movie called trainspotting? was it based on the book? i know the movie has ewan macgreggor in it.
yeah it was a book and then became a movie
[QUOTE=GasPoweredBrontosaurus]it is a problem that prevents me from living a normal life. I have a antibookpoopaphobia- fear of touching a book that someone has done thier business with.
The fecial matter is all over the book. Then it gets all over you as you go about your day.[/QUOTE]
When you're taking a dump do you get poop all over it? Maybe I'm reading on the toilet wrong, but usually don't you settle onto the toilet and then pick up your book, putting it down again when the time comes to wipe?
maybe he was out of TP and had to use some pages
you people write on your books? how dare you.
p.s. if there is fecal matter on books, then there is fecal matter on doorknobs, fecal matter on silverware at restaurants, fecal matter on your keyboard, fecal matter on phones, fecal matter on your chair, etc...
What percentage fecal matter are the peanuts in the bowl on the bar? I forget, but it's high.
By the way, Trainspotting is an excellent book, though I hear for some it's like reading Swahili.
yes, it took me a good 6 months to finish it. it was my favorite book for a long time.
i cannot read an irving welsh novel, the slang is soo soo hard to figure out for me (i tried glue first). The story behind trainspotting is phenominal from what i can understand but dammit the dialouge kept taking me away from the story.
The movie is one of my favourites, but I didn't know there was a book until now. Unhygenix says it was written by Irving Welsh, that's weird because somebody named Irvine Welsh plays Mikey Forrester in the movie. Is that a coincidence or an author cameo and a misspelling?
It's an author cameo. He's a little bald drug dealer I believe.
The author is Irvine Welsh. Unhygenix just mispelled it. He'll have to look into his own soul for forgiveness on that one.
Yes, classic. Definitely a writer who had NO fear on the page.
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
[QUOTE=Riddlegimp]It's an author cameo. He's a little bald drug dealer I believe.
The author is Irvine Welsh. Unhygenix just mispelled it. He'll have to look into his own soul for forgiveness on that one.[/QUOTE]
ah im sorry im not keen with the spelling of brittish names.
Hrmm i didnt know he made a cameo at all.
Learn something new everyday. And yeah, the Scottish-phrasings are initially something to get used to, but it's not THAT bad. Try reading them aloud or least aloud within your own head. Now, [B]A Clockwork Orange[/B] is one that takes a bit of real effort to get used to, language-wise... but the words flow so much more smoothly due to the choice of style & once its initial shock is out of the way. Same with Irvine Welsh.
[QUOTE=ralphthompsonxxx]Learn something new everyday. And yeah, the Scottish-phrasings are initially something to get used to, but it's not THAT bad. Try reading them aloud or least aloud within your own head. Now, [B]A Clockwork Orange[/B] is one that takes a bit of real effort to get used to, language-wise... but the words flow so much more smoothly due to the choice of style & once its initial shock is out of the way. Same with Irvine Welsh.[/QUOTE]
i had no problem with a clockwork orange, it might have been the flow of the story, but the dialouge was easy to me
viddy and varny were the only words i had problems with, devotchka, gulliver, yarbles, velocette, all those made perfect sence to me.
[INDENT][I]When they viddied us a-coming they let go of this boo-hooing ptitsa, there being plenty more where she came from, and she ran with her thin white legs flashing through the dark, still going "Oh oh oh". I said, smiling very wide and droogie: "Well, if it isn't fat stinking billygoat Billyboy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou." And then we started.[/I][/INDENT]
You're right. It's fucking great.
Have you read any of his other books?\
[B]Filth[/B] or [B]Porn[/B]
Dude i know [B][SIZE=7]Colin Meloy[/SIZE][/B] ahaaahahahahhahahaha.
Slowest week ever. Dude diary is getting very good. So i think i'm going to buy the trainspotting book
like my avatar vic.
[QUOTE=GasPoweredBrontosaurus]Dude i know [B][SIZE=7]Colin Meloy[/SIZE][/B] ahaaahahahahhahahaha.
Slowest week ever. Dude diary is getting very good. So i think i'm going to buy the trainspotting book[/QUOTE]
Why do you guys just keep saying Colin Meloy to each other? Are you going to see him?
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nnnnnnnnnooooooooo!!!!!!!! we just like how the name Colin Meloy words roll off our lips. He isn't the lead singer of the best band ever, [SIZE=7]The Decemberists[/SIZE]
Yeah and he is playing at Park West in Chicago and everyone better be there.
I know who he is. I advocate The Decemberists.
sweet. yeah man me and dansemacabre saw them at the Metro in down town chicago by Wrigley Field(where the Cubs play). It was a great show. What is your favorite song and have you seen them play?
[QUOTE=GasPoweredBrontosaurus]sweet. yeah man me and dansemacabre saw them at the Metro in down town chicago by Wrigley Field(where the Cubs play). It was a great show. What is your favorite song and have you seen them play?[/QUOTE]
I haven't seen them play. When were they over here, in England? Not recently, if ever.
I guess my favourite song is Shiny or Soldiering Life, Los Angeles, I'm Yours. It's hard to choose a favourite, every song I've heard of theirs so far I've liked.
Yeah they were, they did a little tour in Europe. I am almost positive but you can check thier website if you want.
[url]http://www.decemberists.com/[/url]
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Shut up, tool.
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[QUOTE=GasPoweredBrontosaurus]Have you read any of his other books?\
[B]Filth[/B] or [B]Porn[/B][/QUOTE]
I attempted to read glue, i made it 50 some pages in and my head hurt, not only did the slang/odd grammar fill almost every sentence it jumped from narrorator to narrorator each with slighly different bits of odd grammar. I dont hate irvine welsh i am just insanely frustrated that i cannot get into one of his books, i know the storys...i know they are phenominal, but the grammar/slang takes me out of the story.
I found I enjoyed his books after I had the basic rythym down but didn't neccessarily know every single word. Nonetheless, the man is still a genius. I advocate Trainspotting first, but my personal favorite is always going to be Marabou Stork Nightmares.
i just picked up the movie from the library. i think i will watch it today.
i reveled in the hypocrisy and humour of me and a buddy watching this last night while snorting cocaine like scarface and saying man what fucking junkies
im giving this book a go right now, and i like it, for the most part it is easy to read, things happen fast so your not stuck muddling around with the grammar (unlike the book glue).
My only problems so far are figuring out who is involved with the different little parts; that and keeping the pace going when begbie is narrorating.
its seems once your through the magical "KEN" barrier in irvine welsh novels the language is a piece of piss. "filth" is by far his best book followed by "porno" but "trainspotting" was a rollicking read so enjoy.ive still got "ecstasy" and "the acid house" in a pile of books to read. he seems to like writing about drugs all the time, oh well.
malcolm glazer eh ?
[FONT="Arial Black"]rock over london, rock on chicago[/FONT]
You don't have to pay to borrow books from the library, you know.