· “Welsh renders [A DECENT RIDE] with the same comedic precision and messy obscenity that he’s been refining since Trainspotting.” —bltadwin.ru “The 10th novel by this Scottish transplant to Lake View is as crass as you would expect from the man who wrote Trainspotting.” —Chicago MagazineBrand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. About the Author. IRVINE WELSH is the best-selling author of Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Glue, Porno, Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares, The Acid House, Skagboys, and, most recently, The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins. He currently lives in Chicago, IL. Start reading A Decent Ride: A Novel on your Kindle in /5(). A Decent Ride – A Good Old Laugh 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/5().
A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back in Edinburgh, this time with one of his most compelling and popular characters front and center: the rampaging force of nature that is "Juice" Terry Lawson, first seen in Glue. Juice is a man who contains multitudes: He's a top shagger; a drug-dealing, gonzo porn star; and taxi driver. A Decent Ride. (3, ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. English. By (author) Irvine Welsh. Share. Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, 'Juice' Terry Lawson. A Decent Ride has everything you'd want and expect in a Welsh novel: drugs, sex, and scam, with just enough heart and humanity for the reader to latch on to. Although the phonetically-written Scottish dialogue will be a challenge to some, it yields a huge payoff to those looking for some good ol' fashioned across-the-pond transgressive lit.
A Decent Ride Irvine Welsh ‘An intellectual is someone who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.’ Aldous Huxley Part One Pre-Bawbag Innocence 1 TAXI DAYS — YI’LL NIVIR GUESS whae ah hud in ma cab the other day, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson explains, his solid build contained by a luminous green tracksuit. A Decent Ride – A Good Old Laugh 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. A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh review – poor writing and penis jokes. An outing for Irvine Welsh’s cabbie lothario is slow going thanks to half-baked typographical experiments and lifeless.
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