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Loading... The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs: A Novelby Irvine Welsh
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. always sufficiently disturbing so as to awake my sense of schadenfreude and 'keep me at arms length from that but let me watch' - a bit like a train crash really (  ) boodgie | Aug 2, 2009 |  i like Irvine Welsh at an arm's lenght, and I mostly liked this book. It wasn't what I expected but..... Reading the dialog is always the best part of any of his books. ( ) redwoodcorners | May 19, 2009 | The first book by Welsh I've actually read and what a good read. Reviews seem poor for this book and I'd guess, from watching Trainspotting, that it follows a pattern of depicting the sleazy side of life and lots of substance abuse. Here we see the sordid side of life in the Edinburgh catering trade. But the relationship between Danny Skinner and Brian Kibby (which is Dorian Grayesque) is intriguing. (  ) ascapola | Sep 5, 2007 | Disappointing. Started out with extreme promise, then degenerated. The ending was exasperating, and left more questions then answers. There were a few good scenes, but overall this is not Welsh's strongest work. The characters don't grow or change in any significant way, and while I personally wouldn't mind being able to cast the sort of 'spell' the book discusses, the gimmick gets old quickly. In 'Trainspotting,' you feel bad for the characters, and can't wait to see what happens next. In this book, you feel bad for the characters, and want them to go away as quickly as possible. Welsh has no affection for these characters - neither did I. (  ) ellevee | Aug 6, 2007 | As a huge Irvine Welsh fan, I expect much from his work, and unfortunately I was disappointed by this book. I had attended his reading at Book Soup in Los Angeles, and he guaranteed that if someone did not like this book, he would personally paint the reader's bathroom. I could use some color in there, but... I liked the book well enough, I just did not love it like I love so many of his other works. And I hate to take advantage of unpaid labor. ( ) librarianarpita | Jun 27, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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