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Porno
Author: Irvine Welsh
The Trainspotting lads are back...and in worse shape than ever. In the last gasp of youth, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is back in Edinburgh. He taps into one last great scam: directing and producing a porn film. To make it work, he needs bedfellows: the lovely Nikki Fuller-Smith, a student with ambition, ego, and troubles to rival his ow...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780393057232
ISBN-10: 0393057232
Publication Date: 9/16/2002
Pages: 420
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3.8 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Trainspotting author. Very weird. Funny in a dark way. lots of shock value
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Farscapegirl avatar reviewed Porno on + 180 more book reviews
Porno is a sequel to Trainspotting, and builds on the success of that caustic and very funny novel by taking some of the characters through some radical new catastrophes. Sick Boy returns to Edinburgh with his ventures as a pimp and hustler in London having gone pear-shaped. Desperate for money, he comes up with a new idea, one that (he hopes) will really rake in the cash: the production of a low-rent porn film. Now Welsh introduces us to a new development: the novels Sick Girl, Nicola Fuller-Smith, the object of Sick Boy's fevered lust, whom he also believes will be his passport to all kinds of substance-abusing happiness needless to say, hes in for a rude awakening.

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.
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Cool to see what happens to the folks from Trainspotting.


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