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Dead Men's Trousers

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While comparisons can be made to the first sequel novel Porno, which was about gentrification after coming home to the ol' scene, suddenly all our old friends are middle-aged and very successful. I suppose it has to do with the author's journey himself. But Begbie as a rich artist, Rents as a globe-trotting music manager, does it work? I don't know. Somehow, it does seem to diminish the brutality of our first impression all those years ago. At least Spud is still a loser. Ever since reading Trainspotting, all those years ago, I’ve been a huge fan of Irvine Welsh and especially of his novels involving the main protagonists from that first novel. I love these boys, and reading this book was murder. Desperate to just zoom through, to inhale the violence, the shagging, the plots, the revenge, I forced myself to go as slowly as possible and savour every moment. It was torture.

Danny Murphy (Spud) is the only one still living in Edinburgh and is still an addict, spending his days begging on the street for change. Chekhov's Skill: Renton's martial arts training from the previous book, which he learned to defend himself from Begbie, ironically gets used to save Begbie's life towards the end of the book. Perché, dato il loro stile di vita non proprio morigerato, era inevitabile che qualcuno della banda prima o poi ci lasciasse, e quando questo alla fine accade, ci si sente quasi come aver perso un vecchio amico. Since reading Trainspotting, when it came out in 1993, I have read all of Irvine Welsh's books and, to one degree or another, enjoyed them all, so - full disclosure - I came to Dead Men's Trousers as a massive and long time fan of Irvine Welsh's work. Organ Theft: Spud gets a kidney removed to make up for the one he was supposed to deliver but was eaten by his dog.I Have Your Wife: Symes keeps Spud's dog, Toto until he goes through with the second kidney delivery. If you go for Welsh’s stuff, as I do, you’ll go for Dead Men’s Trousers with great enthusiasm. If you don’t … well, you were warned. For all the sound and fury about “neoliberal Christmas” (the subhead for part one), Renton and Begbie have become a cultural brand, safe and replicable. Afterlife Express: Begbie has another fantasy similar to his DMT hallucinations where he has dinner with his dead enemies. He said the dining room felt like a bus terminal or a railway station where they'd move on and go somewhere else when they finished their meals. I loved Dead Men’s Trousers the first time around and after rereading Trainspotting just before rereading DMT, I loved it even more this time.

Job-Stealing Robot: When Andrew talks about Spud getting laid off, he says in five or ten years his job as a lawyer will be made redundant by artificial intelligence. They were nice lads and the fact that they're in soldier uniform is constant proof that a nation state isnae a kind of construct if you urnae rich. Never Suicide: Begbie drugs Harry and hangs him from the ceiling hoping to make it look like a suicide, but the roof collapses. There is a major plot arc starting from a drink spiked with MDMA powder, the consequences of which flow throughout the book and are truly but believably sordid. This brings in repressed sex addiction, gangster exploitation and the illegal organ trade. A dog reaching and chewing a human kidney is not convincing; has this dog got primate hands that can undo clasps? The plot skids on the bank of complete absurdity, but never quite falls in the pond. The parts with Begbie are also a huge improvement from the disappointing The Blade Artist. I respect Welsh for pulling off Begbie's transformation from a psychotic force of nature to a well known artist, loyal teetotaler husband and responsible father of two kids. He is still a psycho to people who try to mess with his family. I guess Welsh was trying to make the point that truly great artists are not what they seem to be on the surface.

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Begbie changes his name to Jim Francis and re-fashions himself as a successful artist in LA, a collegial, thoughtful man, or so it seems. Right for the Wrong Reasons: Spud has a dog called Toto which he named after the band and didn't realize there was a dog called Toto in The Wizard of Oz.

Mikey gies ays a grim smile. Looks around, lowers ehs voice, leans intae ays. — A kidney, Spud. A human kidney: for a life-saving operation. That said, there's a lot of plot in latter-day Welsh. It's not just about the misery of the human condition by way of a decrepit Scottish junkie setting. This time, there are crazy imaginative scenarios organ transplants and various murders. Welsh non è autore per tutti, che sia lasciato a noi bastardi potenziali che lo abbiamo nominato portavoce. Welsh considers drugs a given part of modern life. “How would you actually imagine a world without drugs?” he asks. “It’d be almost impossible to consider what that may be like. So many things are made through people ingesting drugs. Our whole culture, our whole social life is about people ingesting drugs and becoming intoxicated.”Mi sgomenta un po' adesso iniziare un nuovo romanzo, ho riso parecchio per alcuni passaggi, ho rallentato perché la lettura durasse il più possibile. Mark Renton is finally a success. He now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms, and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with life. The most crazed and vicious of the four, Begbie had appeared in other Welsh works — "coming out of jail for violent cameos" — but Welsh says he had to “completely reboot him and give him a second life.” Off the Wagon: In contrast to his recovery and finding religion in Porno, Second Prize appears in a single scene and looks so worn from drink that he appears almost dead.

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