David C. (xcom) - , reviewed on 6/24/2012 + 29 more book reviews

This was my first exploration into this author and I was not impressed. I only liked one story out of the whole bunch and it had nothing to do with graphic nature or subject matter anymore than just plain boring writing. I have often been told I should read books by Irvine Welsh and I thought the short stories would be a good beginning. However, most of these stories seemed to hide the fact that they were relatively mundane behind dialect. Also it seems the only way the author expresses his creativity is through drug use with the lone exception of The Two Philosophers, a story which I found to be really quite good. Since I am not reviewing just one short story but the lot of them I must say I will give this author one more chance in his more popular works with the hope I find better results.

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