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Clean Bristow
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T2 perfectly compliments the first film.
Irvine Welsh / Trainspotting
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Travis Bickle
Striker
Aye his short stories are brilliant. It’s in ‘If you liked school you’ll love work’
I love his books. Maribor Stork Nightmares and Filth are my 2 favourites. Might dig them out again.
The Red Telephone
Striker
Should have made a film based on the life of Juice Terry Lawson.
Chap78
Central Defender
Jason king, class!
the dude
Striker
If you like his stuff you might like this:
www.goodreads.com
It's not as good as Welshs stuff but still decent. You can pick it up for next to nothing on Amazon (for kindle).
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It's not as good as Welshs stuff but still decent. You can pick it up for next to nothing on Amazon (for kindle).
Jabberwocky
Winger
Should have made a film based on the life of Juice Terry Lawson.
There’s a really good mini series to be made from that whole group of mates from the 80’s through to 2000.
In order
Skagboys - canny
Trainspotting - brilliant
Porno - really good, enjoyed the mix of characters
The Blade Artist - awful, but read on to see how ridiculous it got.
Dead Man's Trousers - canny good. Poor Spud. Felt like a nice way to round of the whole story though and I'm not sure there's a need for any more.
Skagboys - canny
Trainspotting - brilliant
Porno - really good, enjoyed the mix of characters
The Blade Artist - awful, but read on to see how ridiculous it got.
Dead Man's Trousers - canny good. Poor Spud. Felt like a nice way to round of the whole story though and I'm not sure there's a need for any more.
One of the few books I’ve read more than once.
To the OP read trainspotting, if you like it you’ll enjoy the rest of his books. Regardless of it being close to the film.
I loved the novella “A Smart C*nt” at the end of Acid House
In ecstasy he makes reference to a DJ who is into necrophilia. This was at least a decade before the Jimmy Saville stuff came out.
Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs is a good read as well.
To the OP read trainspotting, if you like it you’ll enjoy the rest of his books. Regardless of it being close to the film.
I loved the novella “A Smart C*nt” at the end of Acid House
In ecstasy he makes reference to a DJ who is into necrophilia. This was at least a decade before the Jimmy Saville stuff came out.
Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs is a good read as well.
Aye it's a great book. Much, much darker than the film. Fairly sure that was published just after Glue so he was on a good run of form there.
Scunny Dan
Midfield
The Neebor Watson, Big Monty, The Young Team, Kravy, 50 cent obsessed father, yon gangster radge Tam Cahill......
It's top drawer ya hoor!
Jabberwocky
Winger
Read an interview with IW when Blade Artist came out. He basically admitted that he wrote it because Begbie books sell really well. It was completely unnecessary, thought Skagboys was a good way to round off the character as a book end to Porno.
Scunny Dan
Midfield
The Blade Artist was awful. Turned Franco from an exaggerated version of the sort of pub / football casual nutcase everyone knows, to some sort of 'Jigsaw' type torture killer. Shite.
Definitely 100%
Whilst in prison Francis Begbie meets and falls in love with a stunning American psychology student in her 20s doing a placement there. They marry and move to America upon his release after his having made a name for himself as a successful artist defacing busts of celebrities. All the while he continues to be a secret serial murderer. Welsh, his agent and publisher must have been pissing themselves.
I read Trainspotting when it first came out and it’s still one of my favorites- it was a good add-on and amp-up to my Iain Banks obsession. The film was excellent at the time, if very much abbreviated from the collection of stories and characters in the book.
Thoroughly enjoyed Glue, which I read when it was out as well - good spin-off in that you get a back story on Juice Terry, and the boys make a brief appearance as well, if memory serves.
I’m reading Porno at the moment but I’ve been reading it for more than a year, so it’s a bit stop-start - it’s clearly good but I just don’t get time to read these days. I have Skag Boys on the shelf, waiting, but don’t know when that’ll be at this rate. Agreed with what those have said about T2 being very little more than a nostalgia exercise.
Thoroughly enjoyed Glue, which I read when it was out as well - good spin-off in that you get a back story on Juice Terry, and the boys make a brief appearance as well, if memory serves.
I’m reading Porno at the moment but I’ve been reading it for more than a year, so it’s a bit stop-start - it’s clearly good but I just don’t get time to read these days. I have Skag Boys on the shelf, waiting, but don’t know when that’ll be at this rate. Agreed with what those have said about T2 being very little more than a nostalgia exercise.
Scunny Dan
Midfield
Must have read the Trainspotting chapter 'Inter Shitty' hundreds of times. Superb. "I hate hassle, bit this John Lennon **** will no be telt" ,
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Harry Monk
Striker
What’s the book when it’s about a copper in miami?
and also the one where the lad can do anything to his body and be bullet proof but someone else takes the pain
and also the one where the lad can do anything to his body and be bullet proof but someone else takes the pain
Scunny Dan
Midfield
First one is 'Filths' Ray Lennox in 'Crime'.
I know the second. It's that Hibs football lad switching with his fat nerdy workmate. Name escapes me.
Second is Sex Lives of the Master Chefs
Or Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs. Silly boy.
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