About Trainspotting
The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s hit film‘
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye’ve produced. Choose life.
- Complete Title: Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
- Format: Paperback
- Language: Scots
- Number of Pages: 431
- Publication Time: July 11, 1994
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 0099465892
- ISBN13: 9780099465898
About Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh
Probably most famous for his gritty depiction of a gang of Scottish Heroin addicts, Trainspotting (1993), Welsh focuses on the darker side of human nature and drug use. All of his novels are set in his native Scotland and filled with anti-heroes, small time crooks and hooligans. Welsh manages, however to imbue these characters with a sad humanity that makes them likable despite their obvious scumbaggerry. Irvine Welsh is also known for writing in his native Edinburgh Scots dialect, making his prose challenging for the average reader unfamiliar with this style.
Reviews Trainspotting
Jafar
Fuck me insensible. Oh ya cunt, ya! Ah dinnae watch the movie, bit ma heid’s spinnin fae readin this shite, ah kin fuckin tell ye. The book’s no novel – mair a collection ay short stories, likes…
Manny
Choose mainstream. Choose cheap ebooks that won’t challenge you, stretch you, change you or otherwise fuck with your mind. Choose YA and chicklit and bland massproduced airport thrillers with sanitise…
Emily May
I must have read the first page of Trainspotting more than twenty times since purchasing the book years ago, and each time I would put it back in fear of all the Scottish dialect. There’s no point lyi…
Baba
I had avoided reading this ‘generation defining’ book as I had previously struggled to grasp the hard Scottish vernacular used, but after thoroughly enjoying Filth, I thought I was ready to read this…
Luís
Edinburgh was a sick city in the 1990s. While the industrial and employment crisis raged in these post-Tatchérien years, a group of lost friends survived. This world revolves around dope: heroin, coc…
Paul Bryant
Everything you heard about this book is true. It will not only melt your face, but also the faces of anyone in the same room as you. Be prepared for a deluge of c-words from page one to page last, be…
Ahmad Sharabiani
Trainspotting (Mark Renton #2), Irvine WelshTrainspotting focuses on the lives of a group of friends from Leith, Edinburgh, three of which are deep into a heroin addiction. The novel is split up into…
Brett C
This initially was challenging similar to A Clockwork Orange but I quickly grew to enjoy it. The book is uniquely presented because it is a series of stories told from first-person and a third-person…
Daniel Clausen
Probably the most famous passage from the book: “Whin yir oan junk, aw ye worry about is scorin. Oaf the gear, ye worry aboot loads ay things. Nae money, cannae git pished. Goat money, drinkin too muc…