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Col recalentada
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3.5/5

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En estas páginas puedes disfrutar de una cena de Navidad con el temible Begbie de Trainspotting y ver cómo reacciona ante el novio de su hermana y el anuncio de su compromiso. También descubrirás que alienígenas adictos a los cigarrillos Embassy Regal tienen el plan de colocar a algunos de sus jóvenes como los nuevos gobernantes de la Tierra. Y no te sorprenderá que dos tíos que pelean por una chica guapa descubran que la amistad entre ellos es más importante. Y te divertirá reencontrarte con «Juice» Terry Lawson, y presenciar lo que sucede cuando tropieza con su antiguo enemigo, Albert Black, en un club nocturno de Miami Beach? Los relatos aquí recopilados muestran en todo su esplendor los rasgos distintivos de Irvine Welsh: imaginación desenfrenada, humor negro y escandaloso, un finísimo oído para el habla cotidiana y la habilidad para crear algunos de los personajes más memorables de la ficción contemporánea. «Toneladas de diversión, frenesí, guarradas» (Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler). «La obra de Welsh continúa siendo conmovedora, repelente y escandalosamente divertida, todo al mismo tiempo» (Will Shutes, Times Literary Supplement). «Lo primero que llama la atención es la asombrosa energía de la escritura de Welsh, el suspense, la emoción visceral de estos relatos demenciales» (Doug Johnstone, The Independent on Sunday).

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Fecha de lanzamiento8 mar 2012
ISBN9788433933522
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Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh nació en 1958 en Escocia. Creció en el corazón del barrio obrero de Muirhouse, dejó la escuela a los dieciséis años y cambió multitud de veces de trabajo hasta que emigró a Londres con el movimiento punk. A finales de los ochenta volvió a Escocia, donde trabajó para el Edinburgh District Council a la par que se graduaba en la universidad y se dedicaba a la escritura. Su primera novela, Trainspotting, tuvo un éxito extraordinario, al igual que su adaptación cinematográfica. Fue publicada por Anagrama, al igual que sus títulos posteriores: Acid House, Éxtasis, Escoria, Cola, Porno, Secretos de alcoba de los grandes chefs, Si te gustó la escuela, te encantará el trabajo, Crimen, Col recalentada, Skagboys, La vida sexual de las gemelas siamesas, Un polvo en condiciones y El artista de la cuchilla. De Irvine Welsh se ha escrito: «Leer a Welsh es como ver las películas de Tarantino: una actividad emocionante, escalofriante, repulsiva, apremiante..., pero Welsh es un escritor muy frío que consigue despertar sentimientos muy cálidos, y su literatura es mucho más que pulp fiction» (T. Jones, The Spectator); «El Céline escocés de los noventa» (The Guardian); «No ha dejado de sorprendernos desde Trainspotting» (Mondo Sonoro); «Además de un excelente cronista, Irvine Welsh sigue siendo un genio de la sátira más perversa» (Aleix Montoto, Go); «Un genial escritor satírico, que, como tal, pone a la sociedad frente a su propia imagen» (Louise Welsh, The Independent); «Welsh es uno de nuestros grandes conocedores de la depravación, un sabio de la escoria, que excava y saca a la luz nuestras obsesiones más oscuras» (Nathaniel Rich, The New York Times Book Review).

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  • Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas
    2/5
    After reading Trainspotting (and then later seeing the film adaptation), I was looking forward to more of Irvine Welsh's stories -- and that's pretty much what I ended up with: more of the same. I've picked up and put down this collection about 15 times since it turned up in my mailbox, and I'm not sure that it's really worth the trouble.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    Sorry to be so long with this review; I am still not sure where to begin. I'd first recommend that the first story or two be read twice, in order to get a good feel for the dialect. Once you reach a suitable comfort level with the scottish dialect, you will probably also be accustomed to the ever-present profanity. (Not that I was particularly offended, but I rarely find this level of profanity in anything I've read, let alone anything worthwhile.) Throughout the book, the characters seem to come from the near-bottom of working class society, and are purposely drawn with few if any redeeming virtues. The stories are compelling, sometimes mesmerizing. They draw you in, and hold you, as if you were watching a train wreck, or a house fire. As suggested by the title, most stories here are reprints, and are bitter, jaundiced stories in which the protagonist rarely finds escape from his situation, or redemption either in the story or the reader's perceptions. The only exception to this is the last story,I Am Miami, the only previously unpublished offering included here. One gets the impression that having achieved some modicum of success, the author has become a bit less cynical and hence more sympathetic with his creations. I give the book three stars because I enjoyed parts of it, and elsewhere it compelled me to go on. It is not a book you could casually recommend to anyone whose tastes you were not familiar with, but I'm sure we all know someone (not your mother) who might enjoy it.
  • Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas
    2/5
    Not a book I could realistically recommend to anyone. I opt to give it two stars because it had moments I enjoyed, but unfortunately they were few and far between.I came at this collection of short stories having neither read any of his previous material nor seen any of the resultant film adaptations. I did not know what to expect, but was hopeful that I would enjoy this as something of a 'taste test' of Welsh's work. Alas, I took a bitter bite. I was immediately hit with the thick Scottish brogue which made it excessively difficult to slog through even a few pages of the text. I have some background with Ireland's own interpretation of the English language, so I was hardly a remedial student, but even then I not-infrequently had to re-read a passage. And while that itself isn't necessarily a problem, I object to how frequently it occurred and to what little payoff. Oh, I see, the character is talking about the same things he was talking about for the previous six pages, hooray! It was a challenge each time I picked up this book to summon the will to finish.Save the first and last stories, and a slight twist to one in the middle, the characters all came off as cookie-cutter druggie youth, with little attention to character development. The first story is quite funny, the last features decent plot without the plodding of the priors, but overall the pieces blur together with little payoff. Not terribly important, but there were several apparent typos, though because I have a pre-release version of the book I assume these have been found and fixed. In summation, I think this book may be enjoyed by existing fans of the author, but the rest of us should probably steer clear.
  • Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas
    2/5
    I have to say the title of this book is perfect. Reheated Cabbage stinks and so does this book. To be fair- the stories themselves though vulgar, were compelling and darkly humorous, but Welsh's insistence on writing in the dialect of his characters makes each story extremely difficult to read. His antagonist in each story is without any redeeming qualities and the reader is never given an opportunity to feel anything for the characters but loathing and disgust. If you are familiar with the vernacular of hardcore Scots English, you will have an easier time.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    “Reheated Cabbage” had some good stories and some lesser ones and one I just couldn’t get into enough to read the whole thing.My favorite one was “I Am Miami,” bringing back some of my favorite Welsh characters, Carl “N-Sign” Ewart and Terry “Juice” Lawson. It’s told from the perspective of one of their old school teachers, who’s sort of unhappily living in Miami, long after his retirement and his wife’s passing. He just happens to bump into Carl and Terry, who are in Miami for a party…Of course, any story or chapter of a story with Terry Lawson is going to be fun, he’s simply a hardcore, fun-loving guy.“I Am Miami” was worth the price of the book alone.The story, “State of the Party” was pretty good, too, with a couple of characters, Crooky and Calum, taking drugs in a bar and going to a party with some serious mishaps that get them kicked out of the party onto the street.I also enjoyed “Victor Spoils” and “Elspeth’s Boyfriend” the latter of which starred Frank Begbie ruining his family’s Christmas dinner because he doesn’t like his sister, Elspeth’s new boyfriend.“A Fault on the Line” was a completely shocking story about a man who doesn’t care about much of anything except drinking and football.The remaining stories I didn’t enjoy all that much.There was definitely some spice in the, uh, reheated cabbage to keep it from being bland and boring. I probably wouldn't recommend this to someone else as their first Welsh book (start with "Trainspotting" or "Glue"), but an absolute must read for Welsh fans.
  • Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas
    3/5
    Irvine Welsh's uncanny ability to present deeply flawed, twisted characters in an honest and humorous way—without pulling punches or offering extranarrative psychological justifications of the characters' personality or actions—is on fine display in many of the gritty, dingy works in this collection. That said, it was difficult to retain interest in some stories (especially the longer ones), while one or two seemed very rough around the edges, even accounting for Welsh's trademark "raw" style. All in all, it's worth flipping through for some of the character studies, but it is a bit uneven throughout.
  • Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas
    5/5
    Reheated Cabbage is a collection of eight stories from Irvine Welsh. All eight stores have a Scottish connection and most of the dialog is written with a very heavy Scottish brogue and full of Scottish slang. While it may be difficult for many Americans to understand, I suggest you take the time to get the full meaning, even reread passages until you do understand them, because the payoff is worth it.The stories all have a dark side, some with a twist, but all dark and steeped in drug use. I hope the people represented here are purely fictions and not representative of the Scottish people, because if these are real people, they men care more about drinking and football than their wives, the young roam about in drugged up gangs that can make Alex and his gang from Clockwork Orange seem tame.Like many collections, the stories are uneven, not all are great. Three stand-outs for me were Catholic Guilt (You Know You Love It), The Roswell Incident and I Am Miami. Catholic Guilt had a plot twist worthy of a twisted O. Henry storyline. Welsh gives us a new reason why you should be more tolerant of other people’s life style choices and a possible view of purgatory. As I said, a very twisted O. Henry story. The Roswell Incident takes place in another Roswell and shows that authority figures are the same all over, wherever in the galaxy you happen to be, and why you should not boast of being the toughest gang on Earth as that really does not mean much in some places. The last story, I Am Miami, was the deepest in scope and offered a change in venue, if not in theme. This story is set in Miami, Florida and tells of the struggle of a former school teacher coming to grips with his age, loss of his wife and the estrangement he feels from his family. While he feels he may have been a failure as a teacher back in Scotland, a chance meeting with some of his past students shows this is not the case at all. If I enjoyed Catholic Guilt because of the twists, I enjoyed I Am Miami because of the moral and resolution.If you can get through the written dialect, this is a great collection. I highly suggest it to people who only know him through the film adaptation of his story Train Spotting. While it will not add any dimension to the world he writes about, it does indeed show that Irvine Welsh’s writing can stand on its own without any graphic help from Hollywood.

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