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The film was directed by danny boyle and written by john hodge, based on characters created by irvine welsh in his novel trainspotting and its followup porno. Ghosts of the past, both literal and figurative, haunt t2 trainspotting, danny boyles droll and wistful return to the scottish reprobates who, 21 years ago in trainspotting, made. The best book ever written by man or serves to sell more copies than the bible. Continuum contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.
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Tristar has chosen life, chosen a job and has chosen trainspotting 2 moving fast to a preemptive deal. A t this months guardian book club we heard more uses of the two worst fourletter words in the english language than at all the previous book clubs combined. The narrative cycles through a number of different users, pushers, scamartists, and general hooligans, though it focuses on a core group of five addicts. Trainspotting mark renton series book 2 kindle edition. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched irvine welshs spectacular careeran authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It takes the form of a collection of short stories, written in either scots, scottish english or british english, revolving around various residents of leith, edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed.
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