I brought this book after watching Trainspotting, I love the dialogue at the end, The Choose life one, when it suddenly occured to me that Irvine himself but be an alright sort of writer. After trawling all the bookshops for Trainspotting and not being patient enough for it to be delivered I decided to buy Porno, the sequel. I can honestly say this book changed my life, Welsh's depiction of how different personalities work, what makes them tick, what their motivations are and how they act or excellent and really hit home. The way we know Spud who really just hasnt a clue or the confidence to be himself, his need to be liked and loved by others leads to exactly the opposite. My favourite character though is Sick Boy who's always scheming, and ever growing coke habit lead to him being stupidly over confident and therefore eventually lead to his loss of money, girlfriend and anything else he ever had. I love the way his overconfidence and constant overworking of his mind, always trying to scam other people seem at first like this bloke is clever, you start the book of really liking this man, the way he speaks and operate is almost admirable, however as time goes on I actually started to detest this man, once you see all of the creepy flaws, Sickboy is like one of those boyfriends you see as being what your v always wanted he seems to have everything charisma charm, but once you get to know them you realise their just some local loser with a few big ideas and not much else. I'd say the only slight disappointment was Dianes role in the book, she only seemed to really be there for the sake of fans of the film. I loved the ending and like all good books felt a sense of sadness when i was coming to the end. I genuinely felt as though I was losing friends.
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Porno is a sequel to Trainspotting, and builds on the success of that caustic and very ... more
funny novel by taking some of the characters through some radical new catastrophes. Sick Boy returns to Edinburgh with his ventures as a pimp and hustler in London h...
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Pornois a sequel toTrainspotting, and builds on the success of that caustic and very funny ... more
novel by taking some of the characters through some radical new catastrophes. Sick Boy returns to Edinburgh with his ventures as a pimp and hustler in London hav...
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Porno is a sequel to Trainspotting, and builds on the success of that caustic and very ... more
funny novel by taking some of the characters through some radical new catastrophes. Sick Boy returns to Edinburgh with his ventures as a pimp and hustler in London h...
Postage & Packaging: £2.75 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Aug 12th, 2008
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