From Alex Reynolds Sent Wed, Sep 9th 1998, 13:37
For those with an interest for Irvine Welsh, I heartily recommend the bright and moving "Maribou Stork Nightmares", perhaps his best work to date. His caustic, cynical sense of humor, strangely enough, makes you empathize with the protagonist -- even though the main character is clearly a rat bastard, he's still a human being. I am currently reading Ballard's "Crash" and re-reading Hickman's "Twins" trilogy. Alex Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:53:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Clow <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx> Subject: Re: (idm) reading list ... The reason I've set it aside, though, is the second book I'm reading: "Filth" by Irvine Welsh (best known as the author of "Trainspotting"). I just started this one this morning, actually, and I'm about 50 pages in, but it's as good, funny and dark as I expected. Main character is a disgusting, hateful, racist, sexist, corrupt sargeant on the Edinburgh police force. Imagine "Bad Lieutenant" turned into a black comedy and relocated to Scotland, plus Welsh's usual playing about with the written word. ... __________________________________________________________________________ Alex Reynolds Distributed Support Specialist Department of Biology School of Arts & Sciences Computing University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA email:xxxxxxxx@xxx.xxxxx.xxx phone:215.573.2818 Interviewer--what do the words mean? Brian Eno--what do the chords mean?