The Wasp Factory How Late It Was How Late Swing Hammer Swing Cain's Book (Scottish author but set in New York City) Young Adam
Lucas Jenkins
following for interest
also Jekyll and Hyde obvs
Thomas Thomas
Trainspotting
>inb4 meme
Juan Evans
Boswell's Life of Johnson, Journals Smith's Wealth of Nations Hume passim.
John Flores
ALEXANDER TROCCHI
GEORGE MACKAY BROWN...his fiction is good, particularly greenvoe.
I mean, I'm scottish and its difficult to think of great scottish writers....especially compared to ireland.
Wyatt Carter
Read Waverley lads, it's great
Jackson Bell
Looking through my book collection
>James Kelman
often compared to welsh, because he writes regional dialects phonetically and concentrates on the seedy underside of city life (in this case glasgow). not so much if a poofter because he's from glasgow, not edinburgh. Welsh is too derivative of too many writers (kelman, denis johnson, trocchi, louise ferdinand celine, burroughs, ballard, brett easton ellis, hubert selby jr etc)
Joshua Mitchell
welsh is a one-trick-pony, really.
I remember after glue he said he would never write anything else about 80's 90's leith again.......then found out he could write about fuck all else and released skagboys.
Ms-Dos cunt
Ayden Gray
I think he's really done Scotland a disservice by defining ''Scottish contemporary literature'' as basically being cheap Burroughs rip-off but written with a Scottish accent and without any of the talent or intrigue Burroughs had
Elijah Carter
Poetry of James Clerk Maxwell. That guy was a smart guy.
Matthew Rogers
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Jayden Edwards
I had to read pic related in school and in retrospect it was actually breddy gud, weird how i never seemed to have caught on though
it's basically about a middle class teacher in who takes one of his poor students on holiday with him
Jordan Cox
i don't really see much Burroughs correlation apart from heroin abuse.
there is a sense of place and character caught very well in trainspotting. I grew up in leith from the early 90's to the ealy 2000's. the superficial characters like begbie and spud were captured fantastically well. I knew many people like them.....but thats about it.
Leith is completely gentrified now
Alexander Rodriguez
I hear slab boys is good
1982 janine and poor things are also worth reading.
Lincoln Gomez
Quentin Durward, Kenilworth, The Heart of Midlothian all GOAT. Curious that RLS is so underrepresented in this thread, as he was surely one of the greatest writers in English in the late 19th c. If youre Scottish read the short essay The Lantern Bearers immediately. And where's fucking Thomas Carlyle? I'll list a title: The French Revolution. Carlyle is what Emerson, Dickens, and Nietzsche hold in common.
Christopher Ramirez
OP Here. Spent a few hours fucking around on Wikipedia, (a step which in hindsight I should've taken initially). Came up with the following list. (Not yet gotten to 19th Century)
Early History/Mythology: Book of Aneirin Annales Cambriae Fenian Cycle Mythological Cycle Historical Cycle Ulster Cycle Adomnan - Life of Columba
Medieval Romances: John Barber - The Brus Blind Harry - The Wallace James I - The King's Quair
Enlightenment Era Poetry: Alan Ramsay - The Ever Green Alan Ramsay - Tea-Table Miscellany James Macpherson - Ossian Cycle Works of Rabbie Burns Works of Alexander Wilson Works of Robert Tannahill
Theatre (15th-17th Centuries): The Three Estaitis Archibald Pitcairn - The Assembly Catherine Trotter - Fatal Friendship Catherine Trotter - Love at a Loss David Crawford - Courtship A-la-Mode David Crawford - Love at First Sight Newburgh Hamilton - The Petticoat-Ploter Newburgh Hamilton - The Doating Lovers James Thompson - Sophonisba James Thompson - Agamemnon James Thompson - Tancrid and Sigismuda David Mallet - Eurydice Masque of Alfred (Opera) Works of Johanna Bailie
18th century Novels: Tobias Smollett - The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias Smollett - The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker Henry Mackenzie - The Man of Feeling John Moore - Zeluco Jean Marishall - Miss Fanny Renton
Ethan Sullivan
>Leith is completely gentrified now It wasn't much better when I lived there but that was ages ago. People setting your shit on fire for fun was pretty shite. I don't see how it could be much worse now.
Samuel Gonzalez
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
Seriously so good. I thought the atmosphere was similar to that of The Witch (2015).
Jaxson Ross
Oor Wullie
Justin Thompson
Great stuff lads, not op but i screenshot Ted this. Thanks again.
Joseph Hall
Cute trap
Wyatt Price
All Irishmen.
Grayson Nguyen
>mfw americans can't understand a word this says
Alexander Jenkins
trainspotting: origins
Noah Campbell
this confirms my suspicion that the people making charts haven't even read the books they're recommending.