The Acid House

As good now, as the last time I read it, when it was first published. I'd pretty much forgotten every word!

If you've read anything by Irvine Welsh (or seen the film Trainspotting), you should know what you're getting here: drugs and alcohol, working-class and chavvy Edinburghians., football, and a healthy dose of punk rock attitude. What Welsh also shows here, though, is a sharp, wicked sense of humour.
This collection of short stories definitely isn't for everyone (especially due to the language issue – Welsh writes half the time in a working-class Scots dialect, and uses a lot of four-letter words when doing so), but some of the stories in here are just excellent, especially The Sexual Disaster Quartet, Granny's Old Junk, The Two Philosophers, and Disnae Matter.