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The Trainspotting author returns with a novel about rival restaurant inspectors, set in Edinburgh and San Francisco.
W.W. Norton & Company, 400 pages
08/07/2006
$24.95
ISBN: 0393064530
Fiction
General Literature & Fiction
All reviews are classified as one of five grades: Outstanding (4 points), Favorable (3), Mixed (2), Unfavorable (1) and Terrible (0). To calculate the Metascore, we divide total points achieved by the total points possible (i.e., 4 x the number of reviews), with the resulting percentage (multiplied by 100) being the Metascore. Learn more...
The average user rating for this book is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
tristan h gave it an8:
something a bit different from welsh, and handled well. His prose is more complex, but sharp as ever. Masterful use of language, bizarre plot, if a bit slow at the outset. well worth the read!!
Zoe V gave it an8:
Enjoyable but definitely not his best. He lost me with the loss of reality.
Dave G gave it a2:
Terrible. A desperately disappointing read, comfortably Welsh's worst effort since the dire "Ectasy". As usual, the victims are irredeemable saps with dreadful taste in music and boring hobbies while the "heroes" are Hibs supporters with a taste for drink violence. As always, there's Welsh's customary, gratuitous animal violence scene. If I wanted to read a poor man's "Picture of Dorian Gray", I'd ask a 6th form college lecturer for some essays. Welsh has admitted "Ectasy" was poor as he (allegedly) wrote it under the influence of cocaine. What on earth was he taking when he wrote this? Truly awful.
aislinn k gave it a9:
i thoroughly enjoyed this book, in fact i thought it was fantastic.. irvine welsh is an amazing author, but it aint my favourite, porno is much better, or glue.
Stephen D gave it an8:
Welsh writes with an appealing imagination on behalf and for the ordinary people. Being able to relate to Welsh is vital but its so easy here. Alcohol, enemies, relationship problems, entangled into the nightmarish scenarios which helps to fuel more of the above. Porno still tops the list of Welsh books, but Master chefs is showing there's plenty of diamonds in the Leith still to come.
Neil B gave it a3:
A thoroughly disappointing read. The story meanders aimlessly at points and while the characters and their psyches are explored quite well, the plot really lets it down. Actually found it quite hard to finish in the end.
RJ in Toronto gave it an8:
If you are a fan of Welsh's, as I am, you'll appreciate how the main characters were developed, as well as some recurring themes previously explored in other novels. But if you are not, you may find this offering not to be for your tastes. Mercifully, the store is full of other books for you to choose from ...
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