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Hardcover | Pages: 468 pages Rating: 3.44 | 4559 Users | 363 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins |
| ISBN: | 0224087886 (ISBN13: 9780224087889) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened homeless men, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind and, within hours, Lucy is a media hero. The solitary eye-witness is the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, who becomes obsessed with Lucy and signs up as her client – though she seems more interested in the trainer’s body than her own. When the two women find themselves more closely aligned, and can’t stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, the real problems start...In the aggressive, foul-mouthed trainer, Lucy Brennan, and the needy, manipulative Lena Sorensen, Irvine Welsh has created two of his most memorable female protagonists, and one of the most bizarre, sado-masochistic folies à deux in contemporary fiction. Featuring murder, depravity and revenge – and enormous amounts of food and sex – The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins taps into two great obsessions of our time – how we look and where we live – and tells a story so subversive and dark it blacks out the Florida sun.
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| Title | : | The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins |
| Author | : | Irvine Welsh |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 468 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2014 by Jonathan Cape |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Suspense. Mystery. Drama. Contemporary. Dark |
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Ratings: 3.44 From 4559 Users | 363 ReviewsArticle Of Books The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
Lena and Lucy are thrown together by a random event. They are like chalk and cheese, one is a stick thin personal trainer the other a blob of an artist. Both women are damaged, scarred by the past, and each has a different coping mechanism - eating to excess or compulsive exercise and casual sex.They begin a strange friendship in which the power balance is constantly shifting. This being Welsh we also have a mounting tension and escalation of seemingly innocuous trends until we reach a crescendoIt's no secret I am an Irvine Welsh fan. A huge fan. And after reading this novel, I remain so. By removing the action from his native Scotland, Welsh becomes only slightly (infinitesimally) less luminous and shocking in his writing than when he is comfy at home. And so is the case for "The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins", which sees the setting shift to the USA. South Beach, Miami to be precise. This adventure was unlike Welsh's other works that I had previously enjoyed, yet it was perverse enough
Was interested to see him write from a female protagonist, not only that but from an American and not his usual Scottish writing.I was sceptical but he did it so well and still kept me interested. Loved how he changed the chapters of point of view from both protagonists. He usually jumps and rarely is a full book by him from the point of view of one character and I love this style.I hated both Lena & Lucy but I doubt you were suppose to like them.Strong characters and fucked up situations is
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins came as a surprise for me. While you can see strong female characters throughout Welshs books, this was the first one for me where there were two female leads, each strong but fucked up in their own way.The story begins with one of the protagonists, Lucy Brennan, personal trainer extraordinaire, disarming a gunman chasing two unarmed men. Her bravery is recorded by the second protagonist, an overweight artist, Lena Sorensen, who quickly begins to idolize Brennan.
Wow. In this novel, Irvine Welsh has created some of his most engaging characters. I love the fact that he doesn't mind writing from the female point of view, and he doesn't mind making his characters incredibly fucked up. As always, no character is inherently bad. There's motivation, and even if you don't muster up empathy, there's at least some sympathy. This book is definitely twisted, and I loved every minute of it. "Vince Vaughn eyes" is one of the greatest descriptions I've ever read, and
Three stars a bit generous but two too harsh.Read this for book club. Haven't read anything else by Welsh and, as other reviews have intimated, this probably helped me to view it more generously as I believe this fares poorly compared to Trainspotting, Filth etc. TSLOST seemed to me to be a way for Welsh to channel some of his more sadistic fantasies under the guise of a compelling novel. Positives: it is more original than other crime/thriller novels and not predictable, which has to be a good
This is the first book by Irvine Welsh that I have read. Just the name alone suggests a trashy novel, but it's written by the same guy who wrote "Trainspotting", so it should be good, right? As for "Trainspotting", I haven't read the book, but I've seen the movie. I found it overrated and quite silly, honestly. Then again I often find sad things funny and funny things sad.In short, it's got nothing on "Requiem For a Dream", which is a great book and a great movie. Anywho, I was intrigued by the
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