Hey

I recently read Young Adam, and I really love the book. (The movie ain't half bad either) I'll be reading Trocci's other works in the future.

Reading the entries in this community, I noticed that people wonder the significance of the book's title. It bugged the crap out of me too, then I let it slip my mind. Later I was reading another book ( ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Young Adam....and I was wondering why it is titled as it is? I didn't catch it in the text if it was in there...can you explain?

I work for a magazine and we're trying to run an article on Alexander Trocchi for our next issue. We're desperately looking for a good portrait of him to run with the article, so if any of you can help, it'll be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

Thought I'd post a link shown to me about the upcoming Young Adam movie. Its released in the UK in September (the premiere is part of the Edinburgh Film Festival, yay!), but aparently its not sheduled for release in the US at all! Not good :(http://

Hopefully this won't be too embarassing and go for weeks and weeks with no posts, but hey...

Anyways, I've only started reading Cain's Book not too long ago, so not quite sure what to make of it yet. Writing is straight away to a great standard though, even bleaker than Young Adam, and I'm only on page 30 or so. Favorite line so far: 'His face ( Read more... )