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Filth door Irvine Welsh
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Filth (editie 1998)

door Irvine Welsh (Auteur)

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With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, a string of increasingly demanding extra-marital affairs. The last thing he needs is a messy murder to solve. Still it will mean plenty of overtime, a chance to stitch up some colleagues and finally clinch the promotion he craves. But as Bruce spirals through the lower reaches of degradation and evil, he encounters opposition - in the form of truth and ethical conscience - from the most unexpected quarter of all: his anus. In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most corrupt, misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction , and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleaze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name.… (meer)
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Titel:Filth
Auteurs:Irvine Welsh (Auteur)
Info:W. W. Norton & Company (1998), 416 pages
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I remember the first time I read this book I was 16 and ignoring English class to read this book. My mouth was agape at the ending and I had to leave the room to gasp audibly.

12 years later wow this book is so so awful. I hate the tropes and the "dressed as a woman" schizophrenic who was a child of rape blah blah.

I will give this book only a slight pass in the way that it formed my love for trash in a significant way.
  fleshed | Jul 16, 2023 |
The best schizoid worm-infested shit you could pick up at a service station to endure a trip on a plane, train or automobile. Pulp so decentralised it can’t even be mashed together. Same rules apply. ( )
  theoaustin | May 19, 2023 |
Beautifully horrifying, as one would expect!
I'm glad I didn't see the film before reading this, as no matter how hard I try I simply can't imagine James McAvoy as such a character. ( )
  Styok | Aug 25, 2022 |
Filth You know about hard boiled crime fiction and noire?....well this is more than that.....it is putrid, it is decaying, rotting, stinking, disgusting, it is foul. It leaves a bad taste in your mouth as you read it. You will start to itch and feel scabby. You will want to vomit ad probably will then wish you hadn't. You will want to hold your nose and block your ears. You will cringe and shrink from normal human beings, you will forget about nice and wonder if you will ever know clean  again. But you won't put it down until it is finished. It is vile. ( )
  Ken-Me-Old-Mate | Sep 24, 2020 |
If you indulge in Irvine Welsh then expect to be shocked, his writing and his descriptions are at times excruciatingly painful to read. Sergeant Bruce Robertson is a typical Welsh character, he takes what he wants lives life to access and does not care if his actions harm or destroy anyone in the process. He is at heart a narcissist possessing an inflated sense of his own importance involved in numerous female liasions with little or no empathy for others. However underneath this facade is a very troubled possibly suicidal man, and the author uses a very clever way to disclose this to the reader. Robertson's use of alcohol and recreational drugs, with little or no intake of nutrition, have caused a deterioration in his health and he appears to be harboring an intestinal worm. This parasite becomes the main source of information for the detectives's increasingly bizarre behaviour, a very original and highly entertaining element in a narration not for the faint hearted. ( )
  runner56 | Aug 9, 2020 |
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Those who make it through Bruce's gruesome abuses and the difficult Scottish dialect will be left with something to think about.
toegevoegd door girlunderglass | bewerkBooklist, Kevin Grandfield (Jul 14, 1998)
 
As in the past, Welsh himself sometimes seems rather compromised as a satirist by the glee he takes in his characters' repulsiveness. Yet if this hypnotic chronicle of moral and psychological ruin (funnier and far more accessible than Welsh's last full-length novel, Marabou Stork Nightmares) fails to charm a wide readership, it will not disappoint devotees.
toegevoegd door girlunderglass | bewerkPublishers Weekly, Gerald Howard (Jul 14, 1998)
 

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With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, a string of increasingly demanding extra-marital affairs. The last thing he needs is a messy murder to solve. Still it will mean plenty of overtime, a chance to stitch up some colleagues and finally clinch the promotion he craves. But as Bruce spirals through the lower reaches of degradation and evil, he encounters opposition - in the form of truth and ethical conscience - from the most unexpected quarter of all: his anus. In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most corrupt, misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction , and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleaze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name.

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