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Title: Poorly constructed drivel
Review: Irvine Welsh had quite some success with Train Spotting. However he has gone to the well once too often with this collection of stories. It is not that they aren't interesting - it is Welsh's fierce determination to use Scottish spellings to exclude the normal reader from understanding what it going on. Yes Scottish is a dialect, but it is not a written language...and I eventually grew tired of trying to guess what the characters were saying or perhaps trying to say.Perhaps Welsh has something to say... my inclination is he does, but his Scottish chauvinistic heavy handiness renders this book to unreadable and therefore boring... a veritable waste of trees.
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