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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

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ABSOLUTELY PERFECT	Customer Rating:
My first Welsh experience, and one of the best books I have ever read!! Simply superb: the characters, plot, prose, everything about this book rocks. Welsh is a genius. If you've got a pretty sick twisted sense of humour this is absolutely the book for you - you'd be insane not to read this book! Well done Mr Welsh my hat off to you sir!

after drugs, sex	Customer Rating:
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"

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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	Customer Rating:
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.

Doesn't cut the mustard

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Porno to the world of blue movies should be what Trainspotting was to the world of hard drugs. Unfortunately, it is not. The comparison to Trainspotting is inevitable, as this is intended to be a ten years on type sequel. However, while I admired the ability of Welsh to write so crudely and vividly about the use (and abuse) of heroin, it is fair to say that writing about making porn movies doesn't deserve such high praise. The writing in Trainspotting was more to do with emotions, feelings, experiences, and it did truly take you somewhere else. The writing in Porno, is... well, just about that, and I'm sorry to say, the internet is flooded with that kind of material, pretty much anyone can do it, though admittedly there are some truly grotesque and disgusting passages in the book. Some of the characters take on a much more secondary role that perhaps they deserved, such as that of Rab, where his personal struggle could have expanded on a bit further. All in all, compelling reading, but only due to the curiosity of learning what happened to the characters we loved and hated in Trainspotting.