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Original Title:	Filth
ISBN:	0393318680 (ISBN13: 9780393318685)
Edition Language:	English URL http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=6491
Characters:	Bruce Robertson
Setting:	Edinburgh, Scotland

Filth Paperback | Pages: 393 pages

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With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gearing up socially—kicking things off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are some sizable flies in the ointment, though: a missing wife and child, a nagging cocaine habit, some painful below-the-belt eczema, and a string of demanding extramarital affairs. The last thing Robertson needs is a messy, racially fraught murder, even if it means overtime—and the opportunity to clinch the promotion he craves. Then there's that nutritionally demanding (and psychologically acute) intestinal parasite in his gut. Yes, things are going badly for this utterly corrupt tribune of the law, but in an Irvine Welsh novel nothing is ever so bad that it can't get a whole lot worse. . .

List Appertaining To Books Filth

Title	:	Filth
Author	:	Irvine Welsh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 393 pages
Published	:	September 17th 1998 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Mystery. Crime. Novels. Thriller. Dark

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Ratings: 3.73 From 24305 Users | 830 Reviews

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Can you say "Gimmick"? This book was all about gimmicks, and shock-value for shock-value's sake. Which frankly isn't all that interesting to me, especially for three-hundred-odd pages. The main character that Welsh creates is, as the title suggests, utter filth. Racist, sexist, coke-addled, perverted, etc etc etc. The etc's just keep going. Alright already, you don't have to beat us over the head with it. Oh, I guess you do. The gimmick of having part of the story narrated by Main Character's

Use quotation marks you limey bastard!

The ending, the damn ending to the book.Its been like five years since I last cried with a book, I actually had to step out of the office (I started reading the book on the bus ride to work, I had 20~ pages to go when I arrived and I sure as hell wasn't going to stop reading) and to the bathroom to try and cool myself down (view spoiler)[when I read the last two pages (hide spoiler)].The book is disgusting in every imaginable way, but it somehow keeps you going. Even though the situations he

I could NOT put this book down. It was so wonderfully dark and sick. I loved it. The characters were fantastically black. Great Welsh at his best.

Absolutely my favorite Welsh read.I loved the humor and Bruce was so relateable(to me and my type of humor) but sort of over-the-top in his slurs towards many controvercial subjects which only made me giggle,tsk and shake my head.He thought many of the things people would never admit to thinking in their own heads so they just right off the book as its namesake and dont read any further. But I loved the shocking twist and its completely original narrative style. And how Bruce and the tapeworm

The ending, the damn ending to the book.Its been like five years since I last cried with a book, I actually had to step out of the office (I started reading the book on the bus ride to work, I had 20~ pages to go when I arrived and I sure as hell wasn't going to stop reading) and to the bathroom to try and cool myself down (view spoiler)[when I read the last two pages (hide spoiler)].The book is disgusting in every imaginable way, but it somehow keeps you going. Even though the situations he

*Edit* I haven't been able to get this book out of my head, which is something that not a lot of books can claim to do to me, so I'm changing my rating to Five Stars, but keeping the review as is. 4.75 / 5 (if you can finish it)This novel took two attempts to read it and several years, plus the release of the movie, to successfully restart and complete it.Filth was the most roller-coaster-like novel I have ever read. It is written with two perspectives, though Bruce Robertson's is the dominant