Kind of educated in various unconnected bits you mean? Sounds about right.
Is the new Palahniuk one called Rant out yet? I enjoyed that more than all of his others but I guess it doesn't really answer your question.
Seconded on Brett Easton Ellis, I think he's always good though and kinda similar to those two in some ways.
There is a book called Brass by Helen Walsh that is in a style very very similar to Irvine Welsh right down to the way she writes accents and has similar subject matter. I think it's the only book she's done and it's a bit derivative and naive but I remember enjoying it.
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