Superbly written coming of age novel (Glue - Irvine Welsh)

Member Name: adstmh

Product:	Glue - Irvine Welsh
Date:	25/06/09 (14 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Humour and real life situations

Disadvantages: -

Ever since I read 'Filth' whilst working in a call centre I fell in love with Irvine Welsh's books. Glue is a classic Welsh novel, football, drugs, sex and violence told in a way only Welsh could.

The book focuses on 4 friends, Carl, 'Juice' Terry, Billy and Gally who seem to equally love and hate each other and they grow up together in Edinbrugh, each having their own story told from teenage years to adulthood, the way Irvine Welsh writes his novels is unique, he writes them with a Scottish twang, replacing words like 'know' with 'ken' and 'football' with 'fitba', you soon figure these out and the book almost becomes a Scottish lesson by the end!

Glue tells funny stories about the gang of 4 and also harrowing and disturbing stories about them also.

If you liked the film Trainspotting then there is no reason you won't like reading Glue, you'll find yourself painting pictures of the characters in your head and becoming attached to them and by the end of the book you become rather upset it's all finished, but looking forward to the next Welsh offering.

Summary: A huge success and one of Welsh's finest pieces of work