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The Book: Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh
ISBN: 0-393-31581-9
Suggested By: Unnamed Grad-Student
Where: Home
When: 9:30-10P
Music: None
Company: The Family
Pages: 1-55 (55)
The Lead In: Don’t like drug culture, don’t like drug culture, don’t like drug culture....
The 411 on the 55: The book is told in separate chapters that follow the story-line from different points of view, to better explain this, let me outline the major characters:
Rebecca: Writes a series of romance novels, eats too much. Is married to Perky.
Perky: Is milking Rebecca for money to feed his deviant lifestyle: prostitutes, porn, videotaping sex, etc.
Lorraine: Rebecca’s nurse after her stroke. Pushes her to pay Perky back after discovering his secret life.
Glen: Works at the hospital in the morgue, has big crush on one of the girls, either Lorraine or Yvonne, not sure which.
Freddy: Some sort of media big shot, works at the hospital. Insane pervert, main squeeze is corpses.
Line of the Day: “That’s just it, Lorraine sniffed, - I don’t want to find someone, not yet at any rate. I want to find me first.” pg 42
Fact on the Fiction: “Irvine Welsh was born in the great city of Edinburgh, Scotland. He can't quite recall if it was Simpson's or Elsie Inglis maternity pavilions. In fact he remembers little of the birth, though his mother assured him later that it was fairly routine. This selective memory at key points in his life would continue.” IrvineWelsh.Net
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