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"Remember Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, and Spud? Well, they're back, and in POG form!"

Porno, by Irvine Welsh
Well, OK, they're not actually in POG form, but it was fun to catch up with everybody's favorite Scottish junkies and marvel at the fact that any of them were still breathing. This is the sequel to Trainspotting, ten years down the road (and yes, it really has been that long). As the title suggests, there is a little less heroin and a lot more sex this time around. Strangely, this made the events in this book seem far more sordid for me than in Trainspotting. Maybe it hit closer to home because I rarely shoot heroin, but I do have sex from time to time. Trainspotting made the former seem fun and hip; Porno makes the latter seem squalid and dirty. Or maybe it's just because our heroes are not getting any younger. Are any of us? Reading this book was a little like going to one's own ten-year reunion. Who are all these old gummers pretending to be the people I used to know? (I liked the quote [livejournal.com profile] wordwolf had (possibly quoting someone else?) about his ten-year reunion: "It was just as if everyone had swelled.") Anyway, good wholesome reading for you and the kiddies. Lots of sick laughs, lots of squirmy situations, lots of thick Scottish dialect ("It's goat her shitein hersel...") you have to read aloud to make heads or tails of.

p.s. In contrast to the slick content portal and community nexus at Palahniuk.net, check out Irvine Welsh's utterly slapdash and largely content-free web site. Hee. You get the distinct impression Welsh had Spud throw half of it together before fuckin oaf to the pub fir a bevvy.

Edit: Comments disallowed on this entry as the book title has attracted LJ spammers. Maybe I should have called it Pr0n0. (Weird: I didn't know they could comment without me getting an email notice. Clever spammers.)

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