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| Original Title: | Glue |
| ISBN: | 0099436922 (ISBN13: 9780099436928) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Terry Lawson #1 |
| Setting: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Irvine Welsh
Paperback | Pages: 556 pages Rating: 3.79 | 13288 Users | 282 Reviews
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| Title | : | Glue (Terry Lawson #1) |
| Author | : | Irvine Welsh |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 556 pages |
| Published | : | 2002 by Vintage (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. Drama |
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Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. Four boys becoming men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers; Billy the boxer: driven, controlled, playing to his strengths; Carl, the Milky Bar Kid, drifting along to his own soundtrack; and the doomed Gally - who has one less skin than everyone else and seems to find catastrophe at every corner. As we follow their lives from the seventies into the new century - from punk to techno, from speed to Es - we can see each of them trying to struggle out from under the weight of the conditioning of class and culture, peer pressure and their parents' hopes that maybe their sons will do better than they did. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality: back up your mates, don't hit women and, most importantly, never grass - on anyone. Despite its scale and ambition, Glue has all Irvine Welsh's usual pace and vigour, crackling dialogue, scabrous set-pieces and black, black humour, but it is also a grown-up book about growing up - about the way we live our lives, and what happens to us when things become unstuck.Rating Based On Books Glue (Terry Lawson #1)
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for me, i found 'glue' to be an epic novel. 556 pages that i read in 48 hours. i don't remember anything about those days other than totally immersing myself in this novel. i really hadn't felt truly excited by a novel in a long time, although i'm often reading things i enjoy. it was everything about it that made me really love what i was reading. the characters start off as children, not really aware of their surroundings [like most children who are more concerned with playing with friends thanA tale of friendship and life. A concept novel that follows 4 males as they grow up together in the same working class area. The story is set in 4 parts, each 10 years advanced from the last. We get to see the boys at 5 years old, and then again as awkward teenagers before seeing how they have developed into adults in the final two sections. This novel is Welsh's finest in my estimation. Juice Terry is probably my favourite of his characters and that's saying a lot!
This novel follows several decades of the lives of four Scottish friends, from their high school days in Edinburgh until their thirties, when circumstances have put them each on separate paths. In essence, this is a story about life growing up in "the scheme" (government housing projects aimed at eliminating Edinburgh's slums), and the rules that come along with that life: edicts like "always back up your mates" and "never grass on anyone". The title refers to friends sticking together when
This guy flabbergasts me, especially this one, Glue. It is an absolute wank-fest. The beer-fest holiday in Germany was so over the top I was wondering if it might have been a fantasy plagiarized from some hormone-crazed schoolboy son of a Presbyterian minister. What utter implausible garbage it was, the whole book, from cover to cover. And then the irresponsible glamorization of drug taking this moron indulges in. Speed is like sucking lollipops, real heros do skag. Mind, you might get AIDS and
DNF. No ranking. No review. I gave it a little over 100 pages (110, to be honest). It is written in a language I do not understand.
This is a hard one to review. I have not finished it and I don't know that I will, which would usually earn a one star scathing review, but the fact is, it's an excellent book, just very difficult to read. Glue is a well told, many faceted linked narratives of victims and victimizers living hand to mouth. The writing is fresh, the characters equal parts appalling and captivating, but the novel is in dialect which means this takes about 4x the amount of time to read and some words are just
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