Im for real this book is amazing this is like mt 10th time reading it since I got it a few years ago. I saw the movie around the first time I did heroin and thought it was brilliant so I went out and bought the book but I got scared off by the scottish writing style. It languished for awhile while my life happened I got addicted to heroin and learned what it was all about. I rediscovered the book during my first real run with heroin I can remember reading it on nights when I was sick in my room waiting for sunrise and the relief it might bring. I fell in love the book just captures so many things that only a junky would know it seriosly will take my breath away when I realize that Welsh just made so much sense of things in my life.
To this day I will read a chapter or so a week or whenever I am thinking about dope as I am tonight. I really cant recomend the book enough it is a little bit daunting at first because of the language and the way it is written each chapter is an individual story told from a different persons perspective but it comes together nicely it is so worth the investment of time I promise. I wanna type out the choose life quote as I dont think the movie gave it the perspective that the book does.
The chapter is searching for the inner man from page 18 in my copy.
Background Renton is talking about his interactions with a drug counselor and how society doesnt get dope addiction.
"Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken aw the pros and cons, know that ah'm gaunnae huv a short life, am ay sound mind etcetera, etcetera, but still want tae use smack? They won't let ye dae it. They won't let ye dae it, beacuse its seen as a sign ay thir ain failure. The fact that ye jist simply choose tae reject whit they huv to offer. Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mouth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.
Well, ah choose no tae choose life. If the cunts cannae handle that, it's thair fuckin problem. As Harry Lauder sais, ah jist intend tae keep right on to the end of the road"
To this day I will read a chapter or so a week or whenever I am thinking about dope as I am tonight. I really cant recomend the book enough it is a little bit daunting at first because of the language and the way it is written each chapter is an individual story told from a different persons perspective but it comes together nicely it is so worth the investment of time I promise. I wanna type out the choose life quote as I dont think the movie gave it the perspective that the book does.
The chapter is searching for the inner man from page 18 in my copy.
Background Renton is talking about his interactions with a drug counselor and how society doesnt get dope addiction.
"Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken aw the pros and cons, know that ah'm gaunnae huv a short life, am ay sound mind etcetera, etcetera, but still want tae use smack? They won't let ye dae it. They won't let ye dae it, beacuse its seen as a sign ay thir ain failure. The fact that ye jist simply choose tae reject whit they huv to offer. Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mouth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.
Well, ah choose no tae choose life. If the cunts cannae handle that, it's thair fuckin problem. As Harry Lauder sais, ah jist intend tae keep right on to the end of the road"
