Li ritroviamo baciati (tre su quattro) dal successo economico e “professionale”, anche se in professioni poco ortodosse come agente di DJ di fama mondiale o titolare di un’agenzia di escort di alto bordo…, ma sempre impegnati a cogliere ogni chance di trasgressione o di cospicuo guadagno ( ” Godiamoci i benefici del neoliberismo prima che vada a culo facendoci finalmente scoppiare sotto i piedi questo sventurato pianeta”), incasinati e instabili nonostante l’età ultracinquantenaria che comincia a chiedere il conto al loro fisico, in storie di sesso, di droga e, all’occorrenza, violenza. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Taught by Television: Symes has to learn how to remove Spud's kidney by watching a YouTube video from a laptop sitting on his chest.

You're nothing but a work-in-progress until that day you fall out of this world into the land ay dead men's trousers. It’s bookended by a detached and oddly cursory subplot in which Begbie is being stalked by a rogue policeman who is convinced he’s a serial killer.Rents, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie are back, drawn together by events and a chance meeting on a plane. In Welsh's current writing style, the chapters aren't singular anymore and part of a traditional storytelling structure.

Not to mention, this new novel also directly takes place after the solo Begbie novel Blade Artist which feels like required reading now. 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. It's ruined our politics: the controllers have been dripping it into us for decades, making us compliant, turning us against each other, while they rape the world. That should have been enough, but then the story keeps going and going as we find out what happens next and how the family responds and then he gets sucked into the whole organ transplant scheme. Dead men’s trousers will have you gasping in shock at the violence, laughing with guilty pleasure at the antics of Sick boy and Renton and feeling deep pity for the plight of poor spud.This is the fifth instalment and fellow long time readers will doubtless share my strong emotional attachment to Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie. 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. It is these three characters that really make the book an enjoyable ride, and a fitting conclusion to one of the greatest literary saga I have ever had the pleasure of enjoying.

Set in 2015, it follows the characters Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie as they meet up again as middle-aged men. However in the end, the true message is about the strength of friendship : no matter what happens, one will always defend their peers and that comes out clearly, especially in the conclusion. This is one of the great strengths of the novels in this series with picaresque characters from the Scottish working class community from Leith pitted against the boring and square outside world. So different from Armistead Maupin, whose creations negotiated loss, pain and love by developing their better selves. 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.I’m not exactly rich, but I’ve blagged my way into the system, onto the steerage class of the gravy train that bulldozes the poor.