I tried this before the film came out and found the Scottish dialect difficult to cope with and gave up. Then I saw the film and was able to return to the book with their voices in my head and found it to be very different and absolutely brilliant; not for the faint-hearted.
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A beautiful hardback edition of the hilarious, dark, ingenious novel that changed the face of British fiction. Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life. 'The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible' Rebel Inc 'Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius' Sunday Times VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful
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