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The Book: Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh
ISBN: 0-393-31581-9
Suggested By: Unnamed Grad-Student
Where: Home
When: 5:30-6:15P
Music: None
Company: Alone
Pages: 112-167 (55)
The Lead In: Skipping the gym today to read and something came to mind. Not having to go to the gym today really freed up my reading “mindset.” I feel more focused and centered on my reading and I really enjoyed today.
The 411 on the 55: Samantha is a victim of Tenazadrine. Pushed to the market too soon, birth defects abound until the connection is made and the drug is pulled. She is left with stubs of arms, basically flippers on her shoulders. She meets Dave.
Dave is a soccer hooligan into fighting and pretty much being a screw-up. He falls in love with Samantha, ignoring her strange arms. His love is pure, while hers is not. She needs him to help her get even with life. Her target, the man who marketed the drug, Sturgess. Lucky for them, he likes young men, which Dave is.
The story culminates with Dave picking up Sturgess in a bar, bringing him back to the autoshop he co-owns, and Samantha chainsawing his arms off while the cops surround the building. Kind of pretty in the book, to be honest.
Line of the Day: “I’m forever blowing bubbles...pretty bubbles in the...” pg 150
Fact on the Fiction: The line of the day comes from the closing page of the story and, after some research, is found in the West Ham United (soccer) fight song. Originally introduced in the 1920s, its sung before all the matches. Here is a Youtube clip.
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