Someone on my LJ f-list recently reviewed Trainspotting and said it was hard to read (or something along these lines). I got that book quite a while ago, because I like the film and I always wanted to read the book and I found a pretty hardcover edition. Now, our unread books are piled in the living room and my Trainspotting copy sticks out because the back is bright orange, so I had a couple of people asking me if I read the book ... and now, while I'm on a mission to shrink my "to read" pile before it collapses, I finally started with this one.

Well, it IS hard to read. Not that I don't understand it or anything ... it's just that you get bits and pieces from the lives of several characters in what seems to be no particulare order. I'm like half way through and I still don't have an idea about the timeline. It all feels so very random. On the plus side, it's the perfect book to read between things, because you can put it down after a few pages. And I might even put it down more permanently, since the new Sookie book is really calling me ...


Lost: Smokey didn't even get a name? No wonder he wants to get the hell off that island ...