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Acid Plaid: New Scottish Writing

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A fascinating read. I was blown away by "Oneir/Onan: The Seduction of Professor Zero Tolerance" -- that alone is worth the price of the book! Other highlights include a typically funny and disgusting tale from Irvine Welsh and, erm, the "prophetic subway poetry" or what have you.

Stream of conciousness writing, wasted days of throwing caution and existential pranksters who take life way too seriously have NOT died, my friends. They have merely moved to the slums on the outskirts of Edinburough.

The manic desperation, the hypnotic sexuality and the vague but overpowering ambition of the great ones: Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs have been reborn in a haunting sea of realism and metaphysics, and it's name is Acid Plaid.

The emergence of new Scottish street poets and subway prophets like Alan Warner and Duncan McLean give rise to a renaissance of punk, excess, pointless violence and gratuitous sex that so many in our generation, in weariness, have settled upon for the answers to the question of who we are.

Irvine Welsh's contribution takes a seething look at the downside of adultery, abuse and falling hopelessly out of love with life...and at the same time it contains some of the funniest passages I've read in my life.

A great book. Get it, definitely.

Why only four stars out of five?

It wore me out..................