Long time in coming... I finished these months ago
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
I'm very proud that I finished this book because the whole time I was reading it people were sceptical that I would finish it. The ones who had started it said they couldn't get past the language and the ones who didn't just said that they heard it was hard so they never started. It is like the movie, but then again it is so not like the movie. Most of what happens in the movie happens in the book, but it doesn't necessarily happen in the same order or to the same people. They make a reoccuring role out of the young girl that Mark sleeps with, but she isn't a big part in the book. Also Tommy isn't the one who dies from the kitten's poop. And the biggest change is that the whole book is not told from Mark's perspective. It changes and it is always a slight challenge at the beginning of the chapter to figure out if the character who is speaking is one you've already been introduced to, or if they are entirely new. I've only seen the movie once or twice so neither the book nor the movie have endeared themselves to me completely. Oh! I almost forgot, Scottish accents rock! Even reading them is kinda hot.
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
After a book becomes this infamous you feel silly reading it on the MARTA. I imagine it to be like if you just started to read the Da Vinci Code now. He made stuff up (well yeah duh! you don't stay completely lucid during a root canal with no anesthesia by any stretch of the imagination). So considering it fiction, it is not well written fiction. His language is repetative (at least he didn't say phony) but it is an interesting story at least. You feel compelled to get to the end. A short recap is: a guy gets sent to rehab, he is incrediably willful and thinks AA is a bunch of crap, he starts an illicit relationship with a girl and we watch it spiral from there. Eh, you could read worse.
I'm very proud that I finished this book because the whole time I was reading it people were sceptical that I would finish it. The ones who had started it said they couldn't get past the language and the ones who didn't just said that they heard it was hard so they never started. It is like the movie, but then again it is so not like the movie. Most of what happens in the movie happens in the book, but it doesn't necessarily happen in the same order or to the same people. They make a reoccuring role out of the young girl that Mark sleeps with, but she isn't a big part in the book. Also Tommy isn't the one who dies from the kitten's poop. And the biggest change is that the whole book is not told from Mark's perspective. It changes and it is always a slight challenge at the beginning of the chapter to figure out if the character who is speaking is one you've already been introduced to, or if they are entirely new. I've only seen the movie once or twice so neither the book nor the movie have endeared themselves to me completely. Oh! I almost forgot, Scottish accents rock! Even reading them is kinda hot.
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
After a book becomes this infamous you feel silly reading it on the MARTA. I imagine it to be like if you just started to read the Da Vinci Code now. He made stuff up (well yeah duh! you don't stay completely lucid during a root canal with no anesthesia by any stretch of the imagination). So considering it fiction, it is not well written fiction. His language is repetative (at least he didn't say phony) but it is an interesting story at least. You feel compelled to get to the end. A short recap is: a guy gets sent to rehab, he is incrediably willful and thinks AA is a bunch of crap, he starts an illicit relationship with a girl and we watch it spiral from there. Eh, you could read worse.