Dead Men's Trousers

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Nonetheless, his immature selfishness is getting somewhat tedious at this point, and is nowhere near as amusing as Begbie’s mutated psychopathy, Sick Boy’s towering bastardry, and Spud’s endearing daftness. For the Welsh faithful, this is right up there with the rest of the Trainspotting series and is variously inventive, outrageous, hilarious, touching, and is, in short, a life reaffirming read.

The old grudges are still there, their knee-jerk reactions are the same; Begbie’s still a psycho, Renton’s still battling demons, Sick Boy’s still a selfish conceited shagger, and Spud - Spud is still that golden-hearted wee boy in a fifty year old’s body. 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.Off the Wagon: In contrast to his recovery and finding religion in Porno, Second Prize appears in a single scene and looks so worn from drink that he appears almost dead. Following virtually straight on from The Blade Artist's conclusion, once again the experienced Welsh reader finds him or herself back in the company of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie, the latter now successful artist, Jim Francis. Via a series of plausibility-stretching coincidences, the pair end up back in the orbits of Sick Boy (still in the pimping-and-mental-cruelty game) and poor old wild-eyed Spud, now self-employed as a full-time “jakey”, or street beggar. But Begbie – now teetotal, and a successful artist living in California with a wife and two young children – comes over all Zen.

Dead Men's Trousers is a very entertaining read after tepid and uninspired offerings like The Blade Artist and The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins. Corruption, Brexit, The Scottish referundum, capitalism , organ harvesting, materialism and prostitution are some of the themes that are expressed in Dead Men’s Trousers. I respect Welsh for pulling off Begbie's transformation from a psychotic force of nature to a well known artist, loyal teetotaler husband and responsible father of two kids.I rientri alla vecchia Edinburgo per far visita ai brandelli di famiglia rimasti in patria, sono doverosi ma sempre più penosi in occasione di ricorrenze vissute con acredine e distacco ( …in un miscuglio incessante di motivi pop natalizi dei Settanta e Ottanta ormai diventati un tale tormentone a ogni ritorno delle festività, che la gente bofonchia le parole sottovoce, come militari congedati per stress post-traumatico ). Contrived Coincidence: Sick Boy complains about the odds about he and Mark being in Berlin at the same time when he was so hard to get hold of when he owed Sick Boy money. In shifting POVs, we also catch up with Sick Boy (now the owner of a high-class escort agency) and Spud (still a loveable loser, but getting by the best he can), and as the four eventually all cross paths again for the first time in decades, Renton finds himself forced to pay off even more debts (which leads him to plead poverty despite a first class lifestyle and homes on two continents). Ma non solo i quattro protagonisti appaiono invecchiati in modo più o meno consapevole ( … più invecchi e più è dura combattere contro la tua sgradevolezza sociale, si diventa più facili alle esplosioni di emotività narcisa); anche lo stesso Welsh, per quanto si ingegni ad inventare nuove “avventure” sempre più sordide, perfide e scellerate, sconta il passare degli anni così che questo romanzo risulta troppo lungo, in alcune parti annoia e, duole ammetterlo, mostra una ripetitività che compromette gran parte della partecipazione che gli episodi precedenti suscitavano. After The Blade Artist, readers were left hanging with how Frank Begbie and Mark Renton react to each other on a flight from Edinburgh back to Los Angeles.

Take a Third Option: When Begbie refuses to take the money Mark owes him, Sick Boy suggests Mark use it to bid on some of Begbie's artwork. We knew from social media (and, indeed, from the above blurb), that one of the boys wasn’t going to survive the novel. 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.They are relatively free of heroine addiction, but work their way throught a pharmacist's of drugs throughout the book. The novel also features several cameo appearances from characters from the previous novels including Mikey Forrester and the hilarious Juice Terry. Dead man’s trousers begins in 2015, with Renton, now a successful DJ Manager, when he encounters Begbie (now a big time artist in LA, with a beautiful wife and two kids) on a transatlantic flight. Where The Blade Artist focuses on Begbie, showing us how he believes he’s changed, then highlighting how he hasn’t changed at all, DMT finally gets all of the boys back together again - successful, off the skag, but still inherently the same boys they were when we first met them in Trainspotting. More than this, a lot of characters' actions don't fit - not just with who the characters were in previous novels, but who they are within the internal context of this one; they are utterly changeable to the whims of the plot (e.