Last Supper" Steal: Begbie's DMT hallucination is himself at a The Last Supper-style dinner with several people who are now dead. Cliffhanger Copout: We're told that Begbie waking up from his coma and grabbing Simon's hand as Simon was drawing a penis on his face at the end of Porno was just an involuntary spasm.

It’s bookended by a detached and oddly cursory subplot in which Begbie is being stalked by a rogue policeman who is convinced he’s a serial killer. Non aiuta in tal senso la consapevolezza di avere a che fare, non più con i baldi strafottenti giovanotti dei clamorosi esordi, ma con versioni attempate che rifiutano di crescere, rinchiusi in un loop di accumulo di eccessi che, per il più fragile di essi, è giunto (ahimé) al definitivo irreversibile congedo. The familiar cast are all here and in fine fettle, Renton is now managing and nuturing Djs , Begbie is a changed man and is settling nicely into his role as father and painter (as he was in The Blade Artist) , Sick Boy runs an escort service and is doing well and Spud … is Spud but he has a dog. Job-Stealing Robot: When Andrew talks about Spud getting laid off, he says in five or ten years his job as a lawyer will be made redundant by artificial intelligence.Then it's 400 more glorious pages of incident-laden plot with the usual highs, lows, and frequent hilarity. I’m with my dad, my sister-in-law Sharon, and my niece Marina and her infant twin boys Earl and Wyatt, who look indentical but have different personalities.

It is amazing how he shifts easily between the voices of four characters who are vastly different from each other. Taught by Television: Symes has to learn how to remove Spud's kidney by watching a YouTube video from a laptop sitting on his chest. Although it doesn’t happen until the book is almost over, the finger points to one of them pretty quickly.Welsh non è autore per tutti, che sia lasciato a noi bastardi potenziali che lo abbiamo nominato portavoce. A decent sequel to keep you on your toes, a hundred per cent recommended to everyone who's loved Trainspotting, Porno, Skagboys and Blade Artist. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Pochi libri hanno a che fare con il piacere di leggere (del tutto personale) come quelli di questa saga; mi ritrovo a girare le pagine con un ghigno beffardo, mi vien da credere che più di me si sia divertito solo il loro autore a scriverli.

Welsh makes these amoral misadventures so propulsive, so joyfully awful, that you have to go with the flow…this roues’ romp is about as much fun as you can have between two book covers. Straight Gay: Sick Boy is disappointed in his son for being one because he doesn't see the point in being gay if you aren't outrageous. Nonetheless the book is an excellent entry in the series and shows no signs of Irvine Welsh mellowing out and is in top form.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The story begins in 2015 when Mark Renton, now a successful DJ manager hopping between Amsterdam and LA, bumps into Franco Begbie on a transatlantic flight. I’m not exactly rich, but I’ve blagged my way into the system, onto the steerage class of the gravy train that bulldozes the poor. Then there's that novel Glue, featuring characters such as the perverted Juice Terry and DJ N-Sign--who have also been in more novels. He rolled on, through paragraph after paragraph of purplish prose about the horrors of war, until he was, eventually, interrupted by the woman at the other end of the phone.

But Begbie – now teetotal, and a successful artist living in California with a wife and two young children – comes over all Zen. We knew from social media (and, indeed, from the above blurb), that one of the boys wasn’t going to survive the novel. Never Suicide: Begbie drugs Harry and hangs him from the ceiling hoping to make it look like a suicide, but the roof collapses. I think it would have been utterly unrealistic to expect another Trainspotting - even though the 4 guys stay true to who they are as people, it would have been weird to find them in the same situations 20 years down the line.For the Welsh faithful, this is right up there with the rest of the Trainspotting series and is variously inventive, outrageous, hilarious, touching, and is, in short, a life reaffirming read. Heartbreak aside, DMT is a wonderful ending to these stories that span so many years, and another example of just how good Welsh is at what he does. Con il quinto ed ultimo, per ora, libro della saga di Trainspotting, i ragazzacci di Leigh ormai cresciuti chiudono più di un conto in sospeso, in una commedia tesa, sfrenata ed irriverente, che ti tiene incollato fino all’ultima pagina tra risate, brividi, e lacrime amare, in una trama imprevedibile a base di miserie umane, traffici di organi, droghe, sesso, volgarità ed omicidi vari, dove sentimenti e risentimenti di amicizie lunghe una vita alla fine esplodono colpendo il lettore allo stomaco ed al cuore. Most guys would love the powers Sick boy and Juice Terry have over the opposite sex at the same time as been appalled at the treatment these women get at the hands of these philanderers.