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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Sometimes we seek to project ourselves as the custom essay essay  Gina_Carano | Oct 5, 2009 |  I LOVE everything about Trainspotting. I love the language, though it may be confusing at first, once you get the hang of it its beautiful. I love every character (especially Sick Boy and Spud, they're hilarious). The story has gritty realism and fantasy at the same time. It's moving, compelling, disturbing and one of my favorites. The film is also great; Danny Boyle gives Trainspotting the respect it deserves. (  ) ryannc62 | May 11, 2009 | Perfect read and not as intimidating as the first page makes it out to be. Like the movie but added bonus of different narrators throughout. I loved it. ( ) stipe168 | Oct 28, 2008 | 1  Iain_S | Oct 7, 2008 | Fan-fucking-tastic. This book was incredible, very bizarre, but great. The movie of the same title is based on it and that also is good. I read this for work, but loved it anyway. I’m glad I read it for work, otherwise I probably wouldn’t have. Written in dialect with no quotation marks, stylistically very interesting. About a bunch of junkies running around Scotland trying to live. (  ) burningtodd | Jun 3, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0749396067, Paperback)For the first time in hardcover with the original jacket art: "The best book ever written by man or woman...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."—Rebel, Inc.Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (A Shallow Grave). (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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