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Trainspotting Series

This series delves into the raw reality of life on the fringes of society in Scotland. It follows the fates of a group of young people grappling with drugs, unemployment, and despair. The stories are filled with black humor, shocking moments, and unforgettable characters. It offers a ruthless yet compelling look at the search for meaning in a chaotic world.

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Skagboys

Recommended Reading Order

  1. Skagboys

    • 560 pages
    • 20 hours of reading

    *Number #1 Bestseller** BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYS Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future. But there's no room for him in the 1980s and when his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control. The way out is heroin. It's no better for his friends - Spud Murphy is laid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence finds himself sucked into a life of petty crime, violence and the world of the psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all. Exhilarating and moving, Skagboys charts their journey from likely lads to young addicts in a decade which changed Britain forever. 'Masterful... its banter, outrage and razor wit sing off the page' Independent 'Funny...visceral and true... Welsh's finest work to date' The Times

    Skagboys1
    4.2

  2. На игле

    Это - книга, по которой был снят культовейший фильм девяностых - фильм, заложивший основу целого модного течения - т.н. "героинового шика", правившего несколько лет назад и подиумами, и экранами, и студиями звукозаписи. Это - Евангелие от героина. Это - летопись бытия тех, кто не пожелал ни "выбирать пепси", ни "выбирать жизнь". Это - книга, которая поистине произвела эффект разорвавшейся бомбы и - самим фактом своего существования - доказала, что "литература шока" существует и теперь. Это - роман "На игле". Самая яркая, самая яростная, самая спорная и самая откровенная книга "безнадежных девяностых". Это - роман "На игле". Исповедь поколения, на собственной шкуре познавшего страшную справедливость девиза "НЕТ БУДУЩЕГО"...

    На игле2
    4.0

  3. Trainspotting

    • 121 pages
    • 5 hours of reading

    One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts. schovat popis

    Trainspotting2
    3.7

  4. Trainspotting

    GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fucking embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you've produced. Choose life.

    Trainspotting2
    4.2

  5. Porno

    Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson (first met in "Trainspotting") returns to his native Edinburgh. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, this time around he's a nascent film director, dreaming of directing and producing a pornographic film.

    Porno3
    3.8

  6. The blade artist

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he’s a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary. But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies – and, most alarmingly, his former self – Francis seems to have other ideas. When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband’s violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly. The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel – ultra violent but curiously redemptive – and it marks the return of one of modern fiction’s most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.

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    3.8

  7. Dead men's trousers

    • 336 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He's then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he'd been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and - much to Mark's astonishment - doesn't seem interested in revenge. Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry - so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn't really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearing Dead Men's Trousers? Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting.

    Dead men's trousers5
    4.0