Porno - Irvine Welsh

...required capital to finance the porno project, one of which involves relieving hundreds of Glasgow Ranger’s football fans of the balances of their bank accounts, by illicitly obtaining details of their bank details and cash point pin numbers. (It’s both ingenious and totally hilarious!) Eventually the movie is completed, and is entered for a porno Film Festival, (in France) and the lads set off for sunnier climes in order to market their ...
...novel I have read since Trainspotting, although I have to admit I also thoroughly enjoyed his fourth novel, “Filth”, which chronicled the goings-on of a corrupt Edinburgh detective. (it wasn’t well received by the critics, however) Welsh returns once more to his favourite theme; the striking differences between working class and middle/upper class society in his native city. He laments the “gentrification” of his native ...

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Review of Porno - Irvine Welsh

...Sick Boy’s lover. Thus Porno moves us largely away from the heroin world and into that of the sex industry as the movie ‘Seven Rides for Seven Brothers’ is made. But don’t think this means we get no drugs in Porno – sick Boy’s got a voracious cocaine habit, Nikki’s a doper, Begbie likes a bit of ching himself and Spud can’t say no to anything. On a trip to Amsterdam, Sick Boy finds himself face-to-face with Rents and immediately puts his revenge ...
...often very funny scams. Porno is for me Welsh’s best work since Trainspotting, and I’m delighted to say that the transition from the 1990s to the present is seamless. The characters have all matured in their own ways, but all are instantly recognisable. It’s to Welsh’s great credit that he has been able to once again get under their skins and give them new life. Welsh’s trademark themes are also present, such as his innate dislike of the middle ...

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Review of Porno - Irvine Welsh

...another get-rich-quick scheme. Before reading Porno though, it would probably help to have read TRAINSPOTTING and/or GLUE. Porno is a direct sequel to Trainspotting, bringing back virtually all the characters from some ten years earlier, and adding some of the characters from Glue into the mix, most notably "Juice" Terry Lawson and Rab Birrell. Porno will lack a great deal of depth, resonance and familiarity for readers not acquainted with the characters ...
...The Plot • Porno is an entertaining and quite a deep read, sometimes funny, often disturbing. There's an interesting new cast of characters complimenting the old faces, and with several narratives running throughout the book, it gives each character's own, unique point of view. The original work, Trainspotting, was cutting edge but Porno gives the central characters greater dimension this time round, which also allows Welsh to make fools of ...

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Review of Porno - Irvine Welsh

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charliechuckle 06.02.2003 (12.06.2003) · Read full review
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...but overall quite similiar. Porno keeps these characters but they are not in the story a great deal. Welsh keeps up his unorthodox style by having each chapter narrated by a different character which overlaps other chapters. Very similiar to the film Jackie Brown by Quinton Tarantino but not going back in time as much. The plot is set a couple of years in the future from where Trainspotting left off. I'm not too keen to tell you the complete story ...
...But then again if you are reading a review about a book you can usually expect to hear some detail about it. The title "Porno" doesn't appear to be relevant for the first quarter of the book which I admit was a little slow going. However, you know that Simon "Sick Boy" will have a lot to do with it. But that doesn't take a genius to work out. Anyway. Mark Renton had done a runner to (predictably) Amsterdam and set up a night club. The book doesn't ...

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Review of Porno - Irvine Welsh

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, ...
...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 ...

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Wonderful! I'd often wondered what had happened to the likes of Renton, Simon, Spud & co following the scorching climax to 'Trainspotting'! We find the boys reunited several years later, where Simon is trying again to make it big, this time in the sleazy world of porn. Renton has been in hiding in Amsterdam since running off with the money, and Spud is attempting to do someting worthwhile with his life.. Welsh has reacquainted me with some of my ...
...a cracking pace with the narrative unfolding from several points of view. As ever, the dog-eat-dog working class world of Edinburgh is peppered with dodgy deals, ugly violence and brutally honest truths about human nature. It's a roller coater ride into the hearts and minds of the main players, providing us with plenty of humour and entertainment. This is undoubtedly one of Welsh's best books, a fabulous sequel. If you only read one book this summer, ...

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Porno is the sequel to trainspotting [one of the best drugs books ever written [right up there with junkie and fear & loathing in las vegas],most of the characters from trainspotting make an appearance and some from glue [juice terry,lawson] are also present although this book can be read without reading trainspotting and glue,but to get the best from the book you should read them both. characters ========== renton - the thinking articulate junkie ...
...in trainspotting. sick boy - pretentious entrepeneur but a hit with the ladies - still dreaming of being "a player". begbie - tattooed paranoid zenophobic psycho with the shortest fuse ever,betrayed by renton,released from prison for atempted murder and now hearing voices. spud - the ultimate loser,still a junkie and still being put on and cheated at every turn. juice terry - fat,lazy ex-van boy who thinks he will be the next john holmes [porn ...

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Review of Porno - Irvine Welsh