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Before trainspotting came skagboys. Mark Renton has it all: he’s good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future.

Irvine Welsh is the author of seven previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. Ah dinnae need that much encouragement; the adrenalin’s leaking intae me, buzzing us up. There’s no way ah’m missing this yin. He currently lives in Chicago. Also by irvine welsh. Granny Renton’s up tae see us off; small, white-heided in her quilted dressing gown, but robust and ever-alert, peerin at us ower her glesses, duffel bag in her hand. She gapes at us for a second, makes some kind ay gesture, then she’s off fussing eftir ma dad in the hallway. Ah can hear her soft sing-song voice.

Tell us it’s no true, son, tell us! Ma pleads, standin behind the chair she’d vacated Normal service between us is evidently resumed, so ah openly regard the muppet in sheer fuckin contempt.

Tell us it’s no true, son, tell us! Ma pleads, standin behind the chair she’d vacated. She’s hudin oantae the back ay it, white-knuckled, as if braced for impact. Normal service between us is evidently resumed, so ah openly regard the muppet in sheer fuckin contempt. As opposed tae the mature, sensible and socially cohesive practice ay rammin the nut oan total strangers in public places? Billy looks angry for a beat, but he lets it go as a lenient smile creeps across his coupon.

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Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is a prequel to his 1993 novel Trainspotting, and its 2002 sequel Porno. It follows the earlier lives of characters Renton and Sick Boy as they first descend into heroin addiction

Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It follows the earlier lives of characters Renton and Sick Boy as they first descend into heroin addiction. When Welsh described the novel he said: "I think I’m going to call it Skag Boys: skag is my favourite word for heroin

After the joys of watching T2, I knew it was about time I finally got round to reading Skagboys

After the joys of watching T2, I knew it was about time I finally got round to reading Skagboys. I have struggled to enjoy Irvine Welsh as much as I used to, finding his prose unnecessarily explicit . .t times - a trait I loved when I was younger, but now less so. In places, this is the case with Skagboys, and I would expect no less. Irvine Welsh goes too far - that's what makes his books so popular. However, I enjoyed the story itself more than I thought I would

Irvine Welsh's prequel to Trainspotting just goes over the same old ground, argues Theo Tait. This is a simplification: the desire to shock runs deep in Welsh, and all his books are at least slightly sick and sensationalistic

Irvine Welsh's prequel to Trainspotting just goes over the same old ground, argues Theo Tait. This is a simplification: the desire to shock runs deep in Welsh, and all his books are at least slightly sick and sensationalistic. But when it comes down to brass tacks, Welsh has one great story to tell; and much of the rest of his career has been spent failing to find another one in ever more desperate and revolting ways, apparently feeling that he's letting the side down if there isn't a ng scene or a ruptured penis or child being dismembered. I was really looking forward to Skagboys, which falls clearly into the first category.

Skagboys,’ Irvine Welsh’s ‘Trainspotting’ Prequel. Twenty years ago, Irvine Welsh roared onto the British literary scene with Trainspotting, a first novel that traced the exuberant depravities of Scottish drug fiends. A few years later, the filmmaker Danny Boyle adapted the book for the screen, and a franchise was born.

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