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Dead Men's Trousers

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An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. The adage goes, "With age comes wisdom," but alas, this isn't the case with Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.

Ma non solo i quattro protagonisti appaiono invecchiati in modo più o meno consapevole ( … più invecchi e più è dura combattere contro la tua sgradevolezza sociale, si diventa più facili alle esplosioni di emotività narcisa); anche lo stesso Welsh, per quanto si ingegni ad inventare nuove “avventure” sempre più sordide, perfide e scellerate, sconta il passare degli anni così che questo romanzo risulta troppo lungo, in alcune parti annoia e, duole ammetterlo, mostra una ripetitività che compromette gran parte della partecipazione che gli episodi precedenti suscitavano. Natürlich nicht jedes Wort, da Welsh ja bekanntermaßen viele schottische Slangwörter benutzt und die findet ntürlich auch das Kindle-Wörterbuch nicht.There are plenty of hints of another book on the way and a sub-plot left hanging, so I don't think we have seen the last of these characters, but what will the mash up be? However, one thing we've learned throughout the Trainspotting series is that no matter how much someone tries to change, deep down inside they're the same person.

As much as I enjoyed the movie T2 despite it being far off from the book, I would actually be kind of excited to see Dead Men's Trousers as a movie. Welsh’s writing is also very crude and the violence and sex scenes are very graphic but hey you wouldn’t be reading this book if you knew otherwise. You're nothing but a work-in-progress until that day you fall out of this world into the land ay dead men's trousers. Provate a scrivere rinunciando completamente al congiuntivo, è una fatica cane (o più precisamente cagnolo), si tratta di dover rimettere mano alla scrittura e peggiorarla ad arte.

Then it's 400 more glorious pages of incident-laden plot with the usual highs, lows, and frequent hilarity. I guess Welsh was trying to make the point that truly great artists are not what they seem to be on the surface. Carl’s been dragging his flight case ay records wi him, perspiring like a Thatcher Cabinet minister wi the education portfolio up for grabs, and looking dangerously red.

Last Supper" Steal: Begbie's DMT hallucination is himself at a The Last Supper-style dinner with several people who are now dead.The central quartet of characters – Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud – are back, and there are cameos from the priapic cabbie Terry Lawson ( Glue and A Decent Ride) and, off stage, from the Miami fitness trainer Lucy Brennan ( The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins). The men are depicted as misogynist – perhaps true to character, but women are little more than sex aids. sconfiggendo con un goal al 92° gli odiati atavici rivali del Glasgow Rangers (fatto storico: 21 maggio 2016).

Dead Men's Trousers feels like a mad dash through a pre-determined series of events rather than the exploration of character, circumstance and setting which astute readers and fans of the original might be seeking. Potrebbe essere una degna conclusione della serie, ma sono sicuro prima o poi Welsh vi rimetterà mano, fortunatamente nel frattempo tra la serie spin-off di Terry Lawson ed un’altra ventina di libri ambientati nel mini-universo edimburghese dell’autore, ho abbastanza letture tra cui scegliere per non sentirne troppo la mancanza. Must admit I’m sad to see the end of Rents, Sick Boy, Begbie and Spud but hopefully the individual characters may still pop up in Welsh’s future publications. Dead Men's Trousers is a very entertaining read after tepid and uninspired offerings like The Blade Artist and The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins.Let’s be honest here, we all have a bit of - Begbie, Renton, Sick boy and Spud buried deep inside us. Anyone expecting harrowing junkie trauma probably shouldn't have read Trainspotting in the first place. Ye cannae open the boax cause it’s aw sealed n sterile, wi the kidney packed in ice or some frozen cauld chemical that isnae ice but works like ice. The more things change with these boys, the more they stay the same and the running theme of betrayal is ever present – it’s as though they simply cannot get ahead without it being at the expense of a mate. I don't really think this is a five-star literary novel, but I did get five stars-worth of enjoyment out of it.

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