Dead Men's Trousers

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Renton beats the cop that's stalking Melanie and about to shoot Begbie near to death with a baseball bat that Begbie got from an old client. There’s also a lot of stuff about the DJing and contemporary art businesses, kilos of coke and gallons of booze, a consciousness-altering experiment with DMT and an ongoing plot concerning the trafficking of stolen kidneys. 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.

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). Over the course of events friendships are re made and broken again and plot shards from several previous novels are brought together and resolved. Let’s be honest here, we all have a bit of - Begbie, Renton, Sick boy and Spud buried deep inside us. Carl’s been dragging his flight case ay records wi him, perspiring like a Thatcher Cabinet minister wi the education portfolio up for grabs, and looking dangerously red.I was lucky enough to see Mr Welsh do a reading from Dead Man's Trousers in London last year and I knew we were in for a treat with this final installment of the trainspotting story. Perché, dato il loro stile di vita non proprio morigerato, era inevitabile che qualcuno della banda prima o poi ci lasciasse, e quando questo alla fine accade, ci si sente quasi come aver perso un vecchio amico. But everyone other than Spud is comparatively rich – most especially the Miami-based Welsh himself – and they all spend their time in pursuit of the “more” that will finally fill their empty spaces. Never Suicide: Begbie drugs Harry and hangs him from the ceiling hoping to make it look like a suicide, but the roof collapses. For all we know, there's yet another episode in the works, and the split between the pure literary and entertaining will be even wider.

Straight Gay: Sick Boy is disappointed in his son for being one because he doesn't see the point in being gay if you aren't outrageous. Listening to them talk make me wish that I had friends like them, because their voices are so damn intimate. He added that "by the end, what could've been a fitting, apt, even startling counterweight to Trainspotting has been weighed down with so much awkward sex, so many grown men on drugs and so many antic, unlikely capers, that the great idea Welsh had at the beginning has been lost". 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. 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.Le Capocce di Leith” è il titolo di un’installazione artistica, improbabile prodotto dell’irrazionale ma ben redditizia attività di Francis Begbie che, come abbiamo potuto constatare in “L’artista del coltello”, ha fatto un bel po’ di strada dal violento e alcoolizzato teppista cresciuto nelle strade dei sobborghi di Edinburgo, personalità che tuttavia riaffiora di quando in quando dalla psiche imprevedibile di Francis. Perhaps he can settle down now that he does not need to check the rear view mirror for Begbie and the glint of a knife. Back in California Begbie largely transforms back into artist and family man, to all intents and purposes. 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.