The Bedroom Secrets of Master Chefs - join me

[antigonemuse]

Anyone out there reading Irvine Welsh's new book, Bedroom Secrets of Master Chefs?. I am a pretty hardcore Welsh fan. I know there are alot of us out there. This is actually a romance, and seems to have an interesting edge on it. As with all Welsh's literature, I take it slow. So, if anyone needs time to pick up a copy... Id be excited to wait, and hopfully have some book chatter with.

So, Im a dork.


Peace

Dont be scared by romances... Fight Club was a romance.... Really...

[Seedy]

Oh yeah Irvine Welsh is da muthafukkin mannn!!!

I was the first person to reserve it at my local library and couldn't put it down till the end. Less comedy than most of his stuff but still some hillarious moments. My god, just thinking about it makes me wanna read it again. Then all his other books. Yeah, I'd be up for discussing the literary genius of the wasted scotsman (one of us, that dude, he's be down with this forum for sure!)

Irvine Welsh! What a fookin good cunt!

[dorje]

I have read everything that cunt has written except this new book. Give me a day and i'll be glad to minge with you about the wideo. BTW Antigone-Really the Blues has three pages in the back of hipster talk that is as thich as Welch's street Scottish and it's translated. Basically a copping weed conversation (weed in Harlem was known as "The Mezz" ) He introduced it via the Mexicans he knew from his wife's family to the musicians he knew (Black) from his job-thus good viper weed =the Mezz.

[antigonemuse]

cool, look forward to some book talk

[HistoryofMadness]

Cool, like-minded folks... imagine, finding Welsh fans here of all places...

Yeah that's witless sarcasm I know anyway where I live the man himself came down, introduced Trainspotting (rescreen of course) and then everybody got a copy of the new book, and then he signed everybody's books... I got two (shhh!) but anyway I'll be starting the book soon...

[dorje]

Just finished this book. Sorry it took so long Antigone. I liked the book AND it seems our author is about to get married, has some $$$ and has mellowed a bit. Only DOC mentioned was coke and then sparingly. The sex wasn't as explicit as say Porno (of course) no Reverse
Cowgrls, etc. The plot device (The Double, Jekyl and Hyde,The Picture of Dorian Grey,etc) has been done a lot. Those are the only critiques other than the usual improbables every author indulges in-protagonist's hat falls off just as antagonist is on his knees asking for his ladies hand in marriage and they eye to eye each other. But it does seem as if authors write burn down wonderful first novels (Trainspotting) to be followed by sequels Filth,Glue,Porno and then the money and slack and cocktail parties hit and the prose gets somehow less intense. Now some keep on trucking-Hunter Thompson, Celine-but they are desperate,strung out or crazy enough that it doesan't matter that things are doing fine in their life. Their outlook stays sharp, funny, insightful. I guess I'm not that into romances as I have had a 24 year relationship end last year. I rather read the first novels again (Trainspotting, Fight Club,
Infinite Jest, Neuromancer, Snow Crash,etc)

[antigonemuse]

I had to start from the begining... I realized (now sober for a few days) that i had spaced what i read.

anyhow... Im a-reading.. (migraines permitting)

[RThompson]

I'm slooooooowwwwwly getting around to this novel. Had it since it was published in the US, but at the time was trying to get through Dennis Cooper's George Miles Cycle of five novels, and finally did; and since, I've been rereading old shit I've not read since the mid-90s, Big Sur & the like. Trying to finish writing another novel also, and that's going slow as hell.

I suppose it's time to get this Welsh book out...