Filth

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Ok, enough about the filth in Filth. Aside from the bombastic protagonist, it is actually an excellent crime novel. Full of misdirection, twists, turns, and surprises; if you enjoy the Angels In the Moonlight and The White Trilogy, you will probably enjoy filth. Obviously Filth takes the "bad cop" concept and offensive rhetoric up several notches, but it's a brilliantly written investigation novel. The true meaning of "filth". This was not a joke anymore. The final chapters of the book took on a seriousness that was difficult to deal with, and incongruous to the warped speed the rest of the book drove at. I cannot stress enough how much the ending shook me. It left me NUMB. Irvine Welsh remek író, és bár nem minden könyvét, azért sokat elolvastam: egyik-másik kiemelkedett, a Trainspotting, a rövid történetek, de voltak laposabb járatok is. A Filth nem az, valójában nem is számítottam rá hogy ennyire behúz egy szöveg – azt hihettem, hogy a javán már rég túlvagyok, és nem ér el hozzám igazán mélyre ez az írói eszköztár: a hihetetlen durvaság, a mindennapi hiperrealizmus, amit módszeresen kegyetlen pszichológiai hitelességgel tol az arcodba, gondoltam, sokkolódik a fene, de rámfér egy kis lazulás. Aztán szétestem, mint a főhős.

FILTH' is the story of Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, and the first thing you should know about him is that he's a complete and utter Bastard. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. And I mean, the caring up until you’re actually crying, that’s no small feat of Mr. Welsh here. Those final chapters were simply amazing.Clifford Blades: Registrar General for Scotland's Office, a member of Bruce's masonic lodge; a neurotic, insecure man, Clifford's marriage problems form one of the novel's major subplots.

Reading this is like fast forwarding on a nightmare where the same elements keep repeating and everything spirals out of control slowly. Bruce hates everything and everyone and his only joy left is making people's live hell around him with perfectly planned scheming. Most if not all of his thoughts are racist, misogynistic,homophobic, hateful, angry and nihilistic. At a certain point the only sound of reason is the tapeworm inside him. At a certain point in the book, the narrative starts to be interrupted by a tube-like structure that appears on top of the text, and at first is only made of the word "eat" being repeated amid the zeros that fill the empty space within the tube. It is later revealed that this is actually the thoughts of the tapeworm growing inside Bruce's intestines. We’ll be hopping over to Ireland and joining our friend Bunny McGarry soon. That should be fun. *** Amanda Drummond: A third co-worker of Bruce's, and the only one who openly disapproves of his behaviour and lifestyle.The ending brings a true catharsis, it shows that the things that happened weren't just pointless rants from the writer and one could close the book with a sense of every piece falling to its place. First off, the elephant in the room. Filth is maximally offensive in just about every way possible, and it is not for the faint of heart. It's a great book, but I could see the content being a deal breaker for many people. I honestly believe Welsh wrote the book like this to describe "the cycle of abuse" as vividly as possible. It's not unfair to say the amount and severity of offensive content was overkill, BUT it you have the intestinal fortitude to soldier through to the end, it works, and it's worth it. It took me a while and a few conversations with my bestest book buddy Nat K to organize my thoughts, and figure out what to even say in a review of filth. Rhona – Bruce's childhood girlfriend, in which the history of said relationship is revealed not by Bruce, but the tapeworm.

Filth is not an entertaining play. It’s not an easy play to watch. But the questions and ethical dilemmas it raises are relevant to us all. And it contains the finest stage performance this city has seen. Maybe this is a statement in itself about human nature when faced with atrocities over which we have no control, like the heavy descriptive prose in American Psycho, but like AP, the point had been made quite a while before anything came of it.Despite the drugs, meaningless affairs, betrayals and tortures 'Filth' is actually very funny. Irvine Welsh has a flair for dialogue that cuts to the bone and a writing style that engrosses the reader. Forthright and unabashed in it's overtly controversial opinions, it stands out like the best stand up comedian. Daring to be dark, disgusting, and horrible; saying and doing things so that the reader (or any well adjusted member of society) does not have to. Bruce is not to be taken seriously, he's not where you draw your morals from (that would be Drummond, his antagonist). You just pity him or point at him and laugh at his ignorance. I loved this book, and I will read more from Welsh once my nerves settle down. My buddy reader and I were both a little out-of-sorts after finishing, the ending is jaw dropping. I won't recommend this to anyone, especially kids. If you ever see an underage person reading this, take the book away from them, and sent them to bed without their dinner. Read at your own risk.