Ecstasy

Critics

• Love's chemistry

  Irvine Welsh is the sort of writer who would make the very worst sort of boyfriend. There are bad bits even in the magnificent Trainspotting: the poorly-judged splattershock of Bad Blood, the studenty Junk Dilemmas which pop up like test cards right ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010

• Irvine Welsh: Ecstasy: Three Chemical Romances

  Chris Mitchell With the phenomenal success of Trainspotting (in all its various literary, filmic and dramatic guises), Irvine Welsh has moved from semi-literary obscurity to the centre of contemporary English writing. Trainspotting was one of those b ... (read full critics)

  spikemagazine published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  this book is all about drugs and sex, and it makes me feel kind of sick when I read it. I could not finish it, despite the fact that it's quite well written, and probably at least in part because I can't understand what a lot of the characters are saying. (the dialogue is written phonetically for th ... (continue)

  this book is all about drugs and sex, and it makes me feel kind of sick when I read it. I could not finish it, despite the fact that it's quite well written, and probably at least in part because I can't understand what a lot of the characters are saying. (the dialogue is written phonetically for the various accents)
  WARNING: this book involves dead babies cut into parts.

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• English Books
• Paperback 288 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0099590913
• ISBN-13: 9780099590910
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Sep 11, 1997
• Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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