Product Description

'Brilliantly written, inventive, funny, appalling, frightening and every bit as good as Trainspotting' Mail on Sunday

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32101 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-22
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Porno is a sequel to Trainspotting, and builds on the success of that caustic and very funny novel by taking some of the characters through some radical new catastrophes. Sick Boy returns to Edinburgh with his ventures as a pimp and hustler in London having gone pear-shaped. Desperate for money, he comes up with a new idea, one that (he hopes) will really rake in the cash: the production of a low-rent porn film. Now Welsh introduces us to a new development: the novel's Sick Girl, Nicola Fuller-Smith, the object of Sick Boy's fevered lust, whom he also believes will be his passport to all kinds of substance-abusing happiness - needless to say, he's in for a rude awakening.

Other favourite characters from Trainspotting make a welcome reappearance: Renton, Begbie (even more psychotically dangerous than in the earlier book) and the unfortunate Spud, still unable to kick the drugs. Welsh fans need not hesitate: this is every bit as exuberant, hilarious, disgusting and irresistible as its predecessor.--Barry Forshaw

Synopsis
In the fag-end of his youth, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson is back in his native Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity, which to him represents one last throw of the dice. To enable this scam to work out, Sick Boy needs bedfellows. A desirable one may be the lovely Nicola Fuller-Smith, a young student with enough ambition, ego and troubles to rival his own. However, to realize his dream of directing and producing a pornographic movie, Sick Boy gets teamed up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton and a motley crew that includes the city's favourite ex-aerated-water-salesman, 'Juice' Terry Lawson. In the world of Porno, however, nothing is straightforward, as Sick Boy and Renton find out that they have unresolved issues to address, concerning the increasingly unhinged Frank Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, and, most of all, with each other. Porno is a novel about the Trainspotting crew ten years further down the line: still scheming, still scamming, still trying to fight for the first-class seats as the locomotive careers at high speed towards the buffers.

From the Publisher
Hardback edition of the sequel to Trainspotting

Customer Reviews

after drugs, sex
Welsh comes back to us with the new adventures of Renton and Sick Boy. Renton is now pretty much honest, while Sick Boys his aunt's pub and makes it a swinger's venue. It's a completely different direction Welsh is taking here, but it's all the same shocking, shattering, and rather funny (often), moving (sometimes) and revolting (the rest).

Good but inevitably will be compared unfavorably to "Trainspotting"
This as a stand alone work is engaging and well worth reading. As it is the sequel to the masterpiece "Trainspotting" it will naturally be compared to it. On that front it never reaches the heights of its predecessor. The drug, drink, rock and roll and sex fueled exploits of the characters are still there in abundance as is the hilarious dialogue. One cannot but help but feel that the originality and freshness of "Trainspotting", which helped make it great is not there with this novel. Still recommend though.

Trainspotting revisited
I adore Irvine Welsh for bringing me back into the lives of the characters i had come to love during Trainspotting. This book was just as brilliant as trainspotting, if not better and if you enjoyed following Renton, Sick boy, Begbie and Spud this is just the ticket. Seriously though...This book is awesome.