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Irvine Welsh - Porno

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The Trainspotting lads are back...and in worse shape than ever.
In the last gasp of youth, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is back in Edinburgh. He taps into one last great scam: directing and producing a porn film. To make it work, he needs bedfellows: the lovely Nikki Fuller-Smith, a student with ambition, ego, and troubles to rival his own; old pal Mark Renton; and a motley crew that includes the neighborhood's favorite ex-beverage salesman, "Juice" Terry.
In the world of Porno, however, even the cons are conned. Sick Boy and Renton jockey for top dog. The out-of-jail and in-for-revenge Begbie is on the loose. But it's the hapless, drug-addled Spud who may be spreading the most trouble.
Porno is a novel about the Trainspotting crew ten years further down the line: still scheming, still scamming, still fighting for the first-class seats as the train careens at high velocity with derailment looming around the next corner.
 

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Average Rating: 3.5
 
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The Boys Are Back In Town

Date of Review:  Jun 3, 2004
The Bottom Line: Worth the read.
Review: ~ ~ The title for this opinion came to me as I was sitting in my 'joe maxi' (taxi) at a red light, and the song "The Boys Are Back In Town" by the old Belfast band Thin Lizzie came on the radio.
I've been planning a review of the Irvine Welsh...
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  4.0

by: cujimmy
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
A cracking good read.
Cons
A bit hard for non-Scottish readers to...
 

Pornspotting Doesn't Satisfy

Date of Review:  Oct 21, 2002
The Bottom Line: Unnecessary sequel follows the lives of the Scottish gang of junkies and thugs. But they're so deeply stuck in their old ruts, you may as well just reread Trainspotting.
Review: Oh, sequels. What's the motivation? I guess it's one thing if you've planned to do a series from the beginning, like Harry Potter (not that Irvine Welsh has much in common with J.K. Rowling, shudder). And, although I don't necessarily condone film...
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  3.0

by: disinclined
Recommended to buy: No

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No more sleepless nights of wondering...
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Well, what do you expect? They're...
 

Where were you when we were doing Porn?

Date of Review:  Apr 12, 2005
The Bottom Line: Porno is worth a read because I spent a long time just wondering what had happened to the terrible foursome.
Review: The novel starts off with a 30-something Simon moving into a studio hovel in a most undesirable location in London while keeping down a job as a barman. He pimps "crack hoors" on the side and when he's given boot due to chronic tardiness by the...
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  3.0

by: siddy
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Decadently ruthless ways of life
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Slow reading, pearls of delight and...
 
 

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Authors Irvine Welsh
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  Taylor, D.J., Literary Review: "Doled out in the usual first-person splurges and rambling on..., PORNO shares many of its prequel's characteristics, which is to say that it is on the one hand...dead scary, and on the other hugely funny. In particular, Welsh has a whale of a time sending up drugs moralising and the pornography trade....On the down side, what emerges from this groaning pile of serial duplicity and self-abuse...is not so much a novel as a series of skits, weakened by the fact that Welsh plays all the parts himself."

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Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
ISBN: 9781846575662
 

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