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| Title | : | Skagboys (Mark Renton #1) |
| Author | : | Irvine Welsh |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 548 pages |
| Published | : | April 19th 2012 by Jonathan Cape |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Suspense. Drama. Contemporary |
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Paperback | Pages: 548 pages Rating: 4.08 | 14818 Users | 547 Reviews
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Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas. The way out is heroin. It's no better for his friends. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence feels himself being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence - the worlds of the thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy, the supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all. Skagboys charts their journey from likely lads to young men addicted to the heroin which has flooded their disintegrating community. This is the 1980s: a time of drugs, poverty, AIDS, violence, political strife and hatred - but a lot of laughs, and maybe just a little love; a decade which changed Britain for ever. The prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, this is an exhilarating and moving book, full of the scabrous humour, salty vernacular and appalling behaviour that has made Irvine Welsh a household name.
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| Original Title: | Skagboys |
| ISBN: | 0224087916 (ISBN13: 9780224087919) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Mark Renton #1 |
| Characters: | Spud, Mark Renton, Sickboy, Francis Begbie |
| Setting: | Edinburgh, Scotland,1985 |
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Ratings: 4.08 From 14818 Users | 547 ReviewsCritique Based On Books Skagboys (Mark Renton #1)
Since reading 'Trainspotting' around the time it came out I have read and, to one degree or another, enjoyed every one of Irvine Welsh's books. Before writing this review I had a look round at some of the other reviews and notice that this book does seem to polarise opinion, generally though most of the readers who have enjoyed previous Irvine Welsh books have enjoyed this one - though certainly not all. One reviewer likened 'Skagboys' to the extras that turn on up on some DVDs, specificallyI confess I listened to this novel on audible, which means I understood about 60% of the content (I am more fluent in Swahili than I am in Scottish). Nevertheless, this was a gorgeous explosion of profanity, sexuality, violence, class despair and drug use. It barely had a beginning and certainly no obvious ending; the novel could have concluded a half dozen times before it actually did, but each time I was pleased when there was more to come, and I was sad when it actually finished.In 2018, much
As a long time Welsh fan, I suppose I could be considered a little biased - but really, in all honesty, this is one of the cult Scottish author's finest efforts to date.Skagboys revisits the sunny port of Leith and adjoining Edinburgh, and the eclectic cast of characters that made up Welsh's debut effort - the drugged-out classic Trainspotting. All your skeevy old pals are here... ever-acerbic Mark Renton, sweet natured Spud, scheming Sickboy and, naturally, the delightfully psychotic pugilist,
The best book I've read in a while. Don't ask me if it was as good as Trainspotting because that was ages ago. Skagboys sounds right. The dialogue written in phonetic Edinburghese(?) was tricky at the start but I soon got into it and was calling my wife a c**t in no time. Seriously, be careful of that. Your head will be taken over by an angry foul-mouthed Scot. (As if there is any other kind.)Skagboys sounds right because it is written in the first person from a number of perspectives. So you
Irvine Welsh takes readers back to the days before Trainspotting. Exactly how did so many young people end up on heroin? Not just taking, but completely addicted, destroying personal relationships, and with no major fear of AIDS, which is all over Edinburgh, dubbed the AIDS capital of Europe?Welsh makes no easy connections for readers. When Renton's chronically ill (with practically every chronic illness a person can be born with) brother dies, Renton notes his relief, relief at an end to the
Having visited Irvine Welsh's website I couldnt help but smugly chortle at the irony of the unfortunate placement of his two most recent titles, "Reheated Cabbage" and "Skagboys"(his *third return to Renton & co.), side by side.So what makes this outing any different?In short absolutely nothing. Coming in at close to 550 pages the book is a very laborious rehash of "boy meets drugs". In fact the only reason I actually finished the book was so I wouldn't concede ground to a hipster defence
For the purposes of this review I decided to read Skagboys, Trainspotting and Porno one after another to get a true feel for the quality of each. I'd read prior to embarking on this epic trek through the 'trilogy' that Skagboys is simply too long-winded and meandering compared to the pithy set-pieces of Trainspotting. However, as a massive fan of Irvine Welsh I found Skagboys to be utterly enthralling and potentially even better than Trainspotting. This is a complicated judgement though because
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