The cover of this Minerva edition is slightly different.

This is another book that I have greatly enjoyed, but which is gathering dust now on my shelves.
I've read the book after seeing the film, it is hard to say if one is better than the other, I think both are brilliant. The film helped me to understand and get through the book, because the language was quite a challenge. "A vernacular spectacular" as it is called in a quote from the Scotland on Sunday on the back of the book. With the film in mind I have tried reading parts out loud which made it a lot easier.

Mind, this is not a book for the faint of heart. Harsh subject matter and strong language. Life as tough as it can get.

Released on Monday, November 08, 2004 at about 8:00:00 AM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Post office in By post, Sent to another BookCrosser Controlled Releases.

RELEASE NOTES:

On its way to Imn60 in Australia. Mailed it standard, estimated time that it'll take to travel across the globe is about 2 weeks.

Arrived safely... a lovely RABCK from eMeReS... thanks so much. Straight onto the mountain of 'to be read' books.

Wow! I totally agree with eMeReS - this book is not for the faint hearted. To be honest, at times I found it to be too confronting and could barely bear to read on...
Welsh's use of colloquial Scottish also makes the book difficult to read sometimes, though, as I said, it was the actual subject matter and the imagery that I struggled with...
An important book - and a challenging one - but not really for me.