Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Davaiştii by Irvine Welsh

8 reviews

cubit81's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is on par with Trainspotting. Better than Porno an amazing prequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

yer_real_da's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Great seeing the Leith Four before their rapid descent into addiction, crime and violence that we see at full-throttle in Trainspotting. Enjoyable but a very slow read, multiple parts of the books could have ended up on the cutting room floor to make the book drag a bit less.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy

bookshelf_book_reviews's review against another edition

dark funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Ableism, Rape, and Abortion

cleo_j's review against another edition

emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

slugreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Rape and Self harm

Minor: Abortion

veelaughtland's review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, and Pregnancy

chloe260497's review against another edition

dark funny sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Abortion, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

theneverendingtbr's review against another edition

dark funny reflective fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The first Irvine Welsh book I've read.

I absolutely loved it!! Pure barry man, ye ken?

When people ask me, what's the funniest book you've ever read I always say Choke by Chuck Palahniuk but now this definitely takes first place; I laughed out loud with that Claudia Rosenberg bit at the end.

It's not all laughs though as it's depraved and sad also, but that can be expected I suppose.

The insults are priceless!

I've probably seen the adaptation of Trainspotting over 100 times, never read the book though; Skagboys is the prequel book to that.

Throughout reading this I'm thinking to myself, how does anyone outside of Scotland understand this slang? (it's easy for me though, being Scottish and understand every word and even know similar people, especially of the Begbie kind) 😂

I'm going to make it a goal of mine to read every Irvine Welsh book I can get ma mittens oan. 

I've always been meaning to read the Mark Renton series so here we go, straight onto the second book - Trainspotting!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use