Crime
September 24, 2019 - Comment
Title: Crime Binding: Paperback Author: Irvine Welsh Publisher: VINTAGE Bestsellers 2021 Auto Amazon Links: No products found.
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A book of challenges – but, so worth it… “Crime” is somehow very different from Irvine Welsh’s other books. It has his feel and style, but it is very touching and ultimately more heartfelt than other Welsh novels I have read.The main character Ray is a Scottish policeman who is painfully flawed, but you grow to like him and when you learn why he is like he is you grow to love him, very rarely does a character in a book hit me like Ray managed to, he is a very broken hero who has an uncomfortable path to follow to…
One of Welsh’s best ‘Crime’ is a bizarre work for Irvine Welsh for a few reasons. Firstly, it feels very restrained compared to his other novels; ironic considering the subject matter and surprising when it is the sequel to the harsh and disturbing masterpiece ‘Filth’ (though feels more like a spin-off). Secondly, Welsh has held back on his sweary characters and ditched the heroin and ecstasy for cocaine, though this time it is merely there for the development of the disturbed ‘wounded mammal’ that is Ray Lennox…
Who said it doesn’t pay ! What with him being a writer an all that young Mr Welsh does seem to have a way with words. I thoroughly enjoyed this bit of fiction, it draws a little bit from the frame of reference drawn up in Filth although this time the copper is goodie (despite his fondnes for the Bolivian Bicarb) who goes on holiday to Florida with his bride to be, only to get himself caught up in child sex ring.Irivine has a clever knack of addressing challenging issues while still keeping them entertaining…