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Originally Posted by jennthebenn
Read everything of his except Crime and The Acid House.
Favorites are Trainspotting and Marabou Stork Nightmares.
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I think the massive media attention he received (in the UK at least) after Trainspotting sort of put people off him for a bit. For a good year it seemed impossible to switch on the tv or the radio without hearing his name. He sort of ended up being bracketed with the likes of Damien Hirst as a kind of enfant terrible within the whole 'Cool Britannia' thing. I think it made a lot of people quite cynical about him, which is a shame because i do think Trainspotting is a great book.
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Originally Posted by flashlight69
porno is the sequel to trainspotting welsh brings all the main caracters back renton spud sick boy baggbie.well this is a sequel.sick boy makes a porno with a few bitches then he meet renton again but this time they are not really friends andymore.and then the showdown with begbie who is more phsycho than ever before.i love it really.perfect
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I keep seeing 'Porno' whenever I'm in a book shop looking for something else (usually by Evelyn Waugh, hence my being in the 'W' section) and wondering whether to give it a go or not. I'll probably pick it up at the weekend. Thanks for the recommendation.