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Original Title:	Marabou Stork Nightmares
ISBN:	0393315630 (ISBN13: 9780393315639)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Roy Strang
Setting:	Edinburgh, Scotland South Africa

Marabou Stork Nightmares

Irvine Welsh

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 9822 Users | 341 Reviews

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Title	:	Marabou Stork Nightmares
Author	:	Irvine Welsh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	January 17th 1997 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary

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The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspotting and The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been hailed as "the best thing that has happened to British writing in a decade" (London Sunday Times). This audacious novel is a brilliant (and literal) head trip of a book that brings us into the wildly active, albeit coma-beset, mind of Roy Strang, whose hallucinatory quest to eradicate the evil predator/scavenger marabou stork keeps being interrupted by grisly memories of the social and family dysfunction that brought him to this state. It is the sort of lethally funny cocktail of pathos, violence, and outrageous hilarity that only Irvine Welsh can pull off.

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Summer Reading Challenge 4/27Continental Drift [1/7: Europe] - Read a book set on every continentThis might be the toughest book Ive had to write a review for. How do you rate a book that had a compelling story, from a culture and writer you have a connection to, but with a writing style that made it very difficult for me to read?I first picked up Marabou Stork Nightmares (MSN) back in December. I immediately missed the main concept of the book, which is that the main character is in a coma - so

Mind. Blown.The angle of this story is incredible to begin with; a coma patient tell his story.Sometimes, he (Roy) slipps close to the surface and hears conversations or music around him, a level below that he recounts actual memories from his life, and even deeper, he hunts the metaphorical stork with his friend and companion, footballer Sandy Jameison. He feels that he will be ready to resurface and wake up when he finally kills the stork, which he believes encompasses everything negative and

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In many ways, this book was brilliant: the structure of flitting between his coma state, memories of his childhood, and an African hunting fantasy. Also, the way he physically structures words on the page really conveys the polyphonic stream of consciousness of a person in a coma. And the Scottish phonetic spellings are just plain fun. That said, this book disturbed me as no other book has done--and not in a good way. I genuinely feel traumatized by it. It is not so much the fact that violent

the usual stomach-churning stuff, compelling as ever, and love the style it's written in but not one of my favourites.

Turns out that Irvine Welsh is not a one-trick pony, he's a one and a half trick pony. He wowed us all with his filthy funny tales of Scottish smackheads in Trainspotting, one of the ALL time black comedies, they don't come any blacker or funnier, and then it was kind of - follow that. So this one does involve similar young Scottish druggies, but it has a plot, which emerges in a similar manner to the spring in Monty Python's Spring Surprise from the Crunchy Frog sketch :Health inspector: What's

This is a deeply unpleasant story. There is nothing to like about Roy Strang or his family, or his friends, or his world of mindless and casual violence.But as Roy's story forces its way through the grotesque nightmares - themselves repulsive - based around a hatred of the marabou stork, you realise that the nightmares are a shield against the unpleasantness of his current predicament and his even worse and more frightening memories. Memories that led to desperation even in someone as callous as