Porno - Irvine Welsh > Reviews

Advantages: Slightly funny in bits
Disadvantages: Mostly not very funny or clever

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Advantages: You already know the characters
Disadvantages: Can you handle another instalment?

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Great insight to what these characters we love to hate have been doing
Disadvantages: you'll be up all night not being able to put this down

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Find out what happened to the boys after 'Tainspotting'!
Disadvantages: Scottish dialect is occasionally difficult to follow at times

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 ... Read review

Advantages: all the boys from trainspotting are back
Disadvantages: not as good as trainspotting [how could it be]

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 ... Read review