A review by monty_reads
If You Liked School, You'll Love Work by Irvine Welsh

4.0

Irvine Welsh has the uncanny ability to make everything seem sordid. There's always a sheen of filth covering his work, and that's true of the five stories in this collection. From the first story (where a camper has his junk bitten by a rattlesnake) to the last (featuring dogfights, decapitation, and cocaine laced with human ashes), there's just no escaping the fact that you finish all of Welsh's books feeling a little bit dirty. Not that that's a bad thing, mind. In these stories his language is as vibrant as ever, and even amid the dirt and desperation there's humor and the sense that his characters act the way they do only as a distraction on the way to something better.