Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, (Paperback)

from DavidSwindle

One of Welsh's weaker books. The shock doesn't work without a decent story and characters to back it up.

from TomSlee

All the gross-out drug-addled dialect-speak of Trainspotting, with a little corpse-buggering thrown in, but lacking the human impact. It revisits, without the flash of originality.

from jayne_charles

This book contains three separate stories, all connected by a subject close to the author's heart - drugs. I liked the middle one of the three best, which deals with a Thalidomide-style drug scandal, though there were good points about all three tales. The first story pushes the boundaries of tas...

from Daftboy1

3 short good funny stories by Irvine Welsh He is a genius to think this stuff up. I would recommend this book, good characters there is even somebody in the first story based loosely on Jimmy Saville.

from sggottlieb

It takes a while to get used to the very strong Scottish dialect and slang but once you do, the stories are gripping. Violent, vulgar and obscene but certainly gripping. All the stories have woven plot lines that come together at the end. The first is about a romance novel writer and a nurse. The...