Screen and Cinema The Acid House, (Paperback)

from DavidSwindle

Irvine Welsh's collection of short stories is a fun read -- plenty of strong humor and characteristic Welsh shock.

from stuartechambers

Once again you need to be able to read "Scottish" but if you can get your head around the vernacular this is a really great collection of often profoundly shocking short stories told in the inimitable Welsh style! Well done Irvine!

from amandrake

To steal a phrase, reading this is like getting your head smashed in with a lemon wrapped around a gold brick... in a good way. I find Irvine Welsh's short story collections to be better than his novels.

from AaronPt

The common theme in the reviews quoted inside my edition of 'The Acid House' is 'exhilirating'. They're definitely startling stories, full of weird twists. Irvine Welsh does his best to avoid any sort of literary convention of language, structure, subject matter or taste. It has a feel of being p...

from sixwoolsocks

Welsh's overuse of dialect often drives the reader to distraction in this collection of short fiction.