Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.7 / 5.0

More realistic characters than Coupland's!!:

It's not a book for everybody.

Yes, it was dark. Yes, it had naughty, naughty language. Yes, parts of it depressed the hell out of me. But parts of it also touched me and even made me cry....

The characters were more real than those in any other book I have read to date. I have finally found an author who can rival Douglas Coupland at people-making! Mr. Welsh deserves a hurrah for his incredible talent for seeing and writing people as they truly are. Everybody knows somebody from Trainspotting, whether... more info

One of my favorites:

This is the story of Scottish heroin junkies and their friends. Drugs, HIV/AIDS, drugs, sex, drugs, welfare, drugs and more healthy fun is what you'll find in this exquisite novel.

Trainspotting is often compared to A Clockwork Orange... For one thing, they both write in slang (it takes a while to pick up but after a wee bit you'll find yessel typing the same wae, likesay... daft draftpaks) and are both very explicit. Still, they are different. Trainspotting is a little more "real," dealing with the... more info

Funny and frightening:

I came to this novel after seeing the film. I read it, enjoyed it, and didn't think much else of it. I reread the novel in an English Lit class wherein we dissected the use of dialect, the choice to not have a central character, and the somewhat unredemptive closing. Trainspotting's tough going for the first few pages, but once you're accustomed to the varying dialects represented, you'll find yourselves entertained and shocked by the stories within. This novel is gritty and uncompromising in its... more info

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