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Cargando... A Decent Ridepor Irvine Welsh
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  wandaly | Jun 30, 2016 |   E a nessuno frega un tubo Della Scozia" "There's a controversial new app on the market, called Clean Reader, which removes naughty words from books printed in electronic form. Confronted with the e-book of A Decent Ride, it would quickly collapse through overwork" - J. Cape, Herald Scotland Un libro che doveva finire 150 pagine prima. La storia è ben costruita, anche se l'adattamento italiano non rende al massimo, purtroppo però alla lunga i personaggi diventano ripetitivi. (  ) Bruno_Farinelli | Jun 22, 2015 | Jonathan Cape call A Decent Ride, Irvine Welsh’s tenth novel, as his ‘filthiest book yet’, it may be his filthiest and the laughs are from the pit of your stomach. What I enjoyed about A Decent Ride is that it is written in the vernacular and if you cannot get your head around that then stay out of this book. The use of the vernacular is one of the strengths of this book as it brings it to life and you can visualise Terry ‘Juice’ Lawson in his black cab around the streets of Edinburgh giving you the guided tour. A Decent Ride can be seen as an extended monologue by Terry, who first appeared in Glue and a mention in Filth with a sub-monologue by Jonty who is a ‘simpleton from Penicuik’. We learn from the book that Juice loves shagging birds and making porno movies for Sick Boy with a side line of running drugs and looking after The Poofs ‘sauna’. At the same time Juice picks up a fair at the Airport who happens to be a reality star and a sideline on being a billionaire. He is in Scotland to buy some very expensive scotch and play some golf and get some good PR especially after his recent development in Scotland had turned him in to a bad guy. The main part of the action takes place during December 2011 during the event that became known is Scotland as Hurricane Bawbag. While Bawbag caused disaster something worse happens to Juice he has a life changing event that means he can no longer have his decent ride, and replaces his loss with golf, something about middle aged men, golf and sex metaphors. While A Decent Ride is a work of fiction one cannot help thinking of certain American developers that could do with improving their PR after building a golf course in face of opposition. There are some wonderful questions that Welsh poses throughout the book, such as who actually owns Scotland and not all of them are English and should Scotland be independent (yes I find myself saying). A Decent Ride shows that Irvine Welsh has never lost touch with what made us like his writing twenty years ago. Yes there is misogyny there are plenty of comic capers that writing in the vernacular really illustrates far better than if it has been written in Standard English. Irvine Welsh really is on form with A Decent Ride and you cannot help loving Juice especially when he turns to golf to take his mind off sex. There is something of every one of us in the book, and the great thing is this book is unashamedly not politically correct – I love it! (  ) atticusfinch1048 | Apr 13, 2015 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Despu de sus devaneos por Miami con La vida sexual de las gemelas siamesas, Irvine Welsh regresa a Edimburgo, piedra angular de su universo literario alrededor de la cual orbitan unos personajes que se van entrecruzando en las sucesivas novelas ambientadas en la ciudad. Aquel protagonista es un viejo conocido, Juice Terry Lawson, que ya hab asomado la jeta en Cola y Porno. Resumamos sus credenciales: de profesi taxista, pero tambi chulopiscinas e incansable seductor de ts buenas, traficante de drogas, encargado de una sauna regentada por mafiosos, adicto al sexo y actor porno amateur, que rueda pelulas cutres para la web de SickBoy. Y mientras un tremebundo hurac amenaza con arrasar Escocia, Terry se ve envuelto en andanzas de lo m variopintas: se reencuentra con una antigua amante en un funeral; ayuda al simpl Wee Jonty a buscar a su chica desaparecida, la hermosa Jinty Magdalen; lleva en su taxi a una joven dramaturga suicida; le detectan un problema de coraz que le obliga a guardar abstinencia sexual, y hace de cher para un americano llamado Ronald Checker, rico promotor inmobiliario y presentador de un exitoso reality (s el personaje tiene evidentes paralelismos con Donald Trump) que ha venido a Escocia en busca de un exclusivimo y carimo whisky... Un polvo en condiciones es Welsh en estado puro: desmelenada, escatolica, pornogrica, lisgica, iconoclasta, argica y descacharrante. En ella, el lector que no se amilane ante las emociones fuertes se encontrarcon escenas de incesto, violaci y necrofilia, hasta con un par de inauditos capulos en forma de pene! No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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