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    A Decent Ride
    Audiobook14 hours

    A Decent Ride

    Written by Irvine Welsh

    Narrated by Tam Dean Burn

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane 'Bawbag'?

    Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison?

    Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker?

    And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without... a decent ride?

    A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey.

    In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an unreconstructed misogynist hustler — a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent — and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy...

    A Random House UK audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House UK Audio
    Release dateApr 16, 2015
    ISBN9781473521247
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    A Decent Ride
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    Irvine Welsh

    Irvine Welsh nació en 1958 en Escocia. Creció en el corazón del barrio obrero de Muirhouse, dejó la escuela a los dieciséis años y cambió multitud de veces de trabajo hasta que emigró a Londres con el movimiento punk. A finales de los ochenta volvió a Escocia, donde trabajó para el Edinburgh District Council a la par que se graduaba en la universidad y se dedicaba a la escritura. Su primera novela, Trainspotting, tuvo un éxito extraordinario, al igual que su adaptación cinematográfica. Fue publicada por Anagrama, al igual que sus títulos posteriores: Acid House, Éxtasis, Escoria, Cola, Porno, Secretos de alcoba de los grandes chefs, Si te gustó la escuela, te encantará el trabajo, Crimen, Col recalentada, Skagboys, La vida sexual de las gemelas siamesas, Un polvo en condiciones y El artista de la cuchilla. De Irvine Welsh se ha escrito: «Leer a Welsh es como ver las películas de Tarantino: una actividad emocionante, escalofriante, repulsiva, apremiante..., pero Welsh es un escritor muy frío que consigue despertar sentimientos muy cálidos, y su literatura es mucho más que pulp fiction» (T. Jones, The Spectator); «El Céline escocés de los noventa» (The Guardian); «No ha dejado de sorprendernos desde Trainspotting» (Mondo Sonoro); «Además de un excelente cronista, Irvine Welsh sigue siendo un genio de la sátira más perversa» (Aleix Montoto, Go); «Un genial escritor satírico, que, como tal, pone a la sociedad frente a su propia imagen» (Louise Welsh, The Independent); «Welsh es uno de nuestros grandes conocedores de la depravación, un sabio de la escoria, que excava y saca a la luz nuestras obsesiones más oscuras» (Nathaniel Rich, The New York Times Book Review).

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    • 4/5
      A Decent Ride – A Good Old LaughJonathan Cape call A Decent Ride, Irvine Welsh’s tenth novel, as his ‘filthiest book yet’, it may be his filthiest and the laughs are from the pit of your stomach. What I enjoyed about A Decent Ride is that it is written in the vernacular and if you cannot get your head around that then stay out of this book. The use of the vernacular is one of the strengths of this book as it brings it to life and you can visualise Terry ‘Juice’ Lawson in his black cab around the streets of Edinburgh giving you the guided tour.A Decent Ride can be seen as an extended monologue by Terry, who first appeared in Glue and a mention in Filth with a sub-monologue by Jonty who is a ‘simpleton from Penicuik’. We learn from the book that Juice loves shagging birds and making porno movies for Sick Boy with a side line of running drugs and looking after The Poofs ‘sauna’.At the same time Juice picks up a fair at the Airport who happens to be a reality star and a sideline on being a billionaire. He is in Scotland to buy some very expensive scotch and play some golf and get some good PR especially after his recent development in Scotland had turned him in to a bad guy.The main part of the action takes place during December 2011 during the event that became known is Scotland as Hurricane Bawbag. While Bawbag caused disaster something worse happens to Juice he has a life changing event that means he can no longer have his decent ride, and replaces his loss with golf, something about middle aged men, golf and sex metaphors.While A Decent Ride is a work of fiction one cannot help thinking of certain American developers that could do with improving their PR after building a golf course in face of opposition. There are some wonderful questions that Welsh poses throughout the book, such as who actually owns Scotland and not all of them are English and should Scotland be independent (yes I find myself saying). A Decent Ride shows that Irvine Welsh has never lost touch with what made us like his writing twenty years ago. Yes there is misogyny there are plenty of comic capers that writing in the vernacular really illustrates far better than if it has been written in Standard English. Irvine Welsh really is on form with A Decent Ride and you cannot help loving Juice especially when he turns to golf to take his mind off sex. There is something of every one of us in the book, and the great thing is this book is unashamedly not politically correct – I love it!