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Several elements of the novel were drawn upon for Creator/DannyBoyle's ''[[Film/{{T2Trainspotting}}'']], ''Film/{{T2 Trainspotting}}'', but several elements, notably the whole porn production angle, were excised for reasons of pragmatism.
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Several elements of the novel were drawn upon for [[Creator/DannyBoyle]]'s ''[[Film/{{T2Trainspotting}}'', Creator/DannyBoyle's ''[[Film/{{T2Trainspotting}}'']], but several elements, notably the whole porn production angle, were excised for reasons of pragmatism.
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Mass fixing indentation and Sinkhole misuse. And "each other" is two words.
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** Of course, he starts the book in prison for murdering someone in rage due to Renton's actions in the [[{{Trainspotting}} previous book]]. He gets it down to manslaughter by [[DeliberateInjuryGambit stabbing himself to make it look like self defence]].
** Also, he beats his ex-wife mercilessly due to being misled by [[SmugSnake Sick Boy's snake tongue]]. Then he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown kicks Spud's head in to within an inch of his life]]. Admittedly Spud [[SuicideByCop wanted him to do this at first]] but when he changed his mind, Begbie was not going to stop.
** Also, he beats his ex-wife mercilessly due to being misled by [[SmugSnake Sick Boy's snake tongue]]. Then he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown kicks Spud's head in to within an inch of his life]]. Admittedly Spud [[SuicideByCop wanted him to do this at first]] but when he changed his mind, Begbie was not going to stop.
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** Of course, he He starts the book in prison for murdering someone in rage due to Renton's actions in the [[{{Trainspotting}} [[Literature/{{Trainspotting}} previous book]]. He gets it down to manslaughter by [[DeliberateInjuryGambit stabbing himself to make it look like self defence]].
**Also, he He beats his ex-wife mercilessly due to being misled by [[SmugSnake Sick Boy's snake tongue]]. Then he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown kicks Spud's head in to within an inch of his life]]. Admittedly Spud [[SuicideByCop wanted him to do this at first]] but when he changed his mind, Begbie was not going to stop.
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* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Chapter Naming]]: Each character has their individual chapter naming convention:
** Sick Boy has [[ManipulativeBastard Scam # 18,732-18,753.]]
** Nikki has [[BuffySpeak "...quote from chapter..."]]
** Spud has [[FunetikAksent Quote Fae Chapter.]]
** Renton has Whores Of Amsterdam Pt 1 through 12.
** Begbie has [[AxCrazy QUOTE FAE FUCKIN CHAPTER.]]
*** The three sections overall are named Stag, Porno and Exhibition (ironically, as each character's true nature becomes apparent for all to see, and Sick Boy makes an utter spectacle out of himself).
** Sick Boy has [[ManipulativeBastard Scam # 18,732-18,753.]]
** Nikki has [[BuffySpeak "...quote from chapter..."]]
** Spud has [[FunetikAksent Quote Fae Chapter.]]
** Renton has Whores Of Amsterdam Pt 1 through 12.
** Begbie has [[AxCrazy QUOTE FAE FUCKIN CHAPTER.]]
*** The three sections overall are named Stag, Porno and Exhibition (ironically, as each character's true nature becomes apparent for all to see, and Sick Boy makes an utter spectacle out of himself).
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* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Chapter Naming]]: IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming:
** Each character has their individual chapter naming convention:
** *** Sick Boy has [[ManipulativeBastard Scam # 18,732-18,753.]]
** *** Nikki has [[BuffySpeak "...quote from chapter..."]]
** *** Spud has [[FunetikAksent Quote Fae Chapter.]]
** *** Renton has Whores Of Amsterdam Pt 1 through 12.
** *** Begbie has [[AxCrazy QUOTE FAE FUCKIN CHAPTER.]]
*** ** The three sections overall are named Stag, Porno and Exhibition (ironically, as each character's true nature becomes apparent for all to see, and Sick Boy makes an utter spectacle out of himself).
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** Chizzie crosses it when he wins a hefty payout with Spud (who has taken tranquillisers as a downer) in the horse races. Going out on an epic bender, they find a drunken skank and take her to a secluded location. He first [[{{Squick}} demonstrates his preferred blowjob technique on Spud]] and then proceeds to rape first her mouth, then her arse, also forcing the two of them to have sex in their messed up state. Then he gets into a big fight with Spud in a pub and later threatens to [[NightmareFuel take his girlfriend Alison "on a date"]].
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** Chizzie crosses it when he wins a hefty payout with Spud (who has taken tranquillisers as a downer) in the horse races. Going out on an epic bender, they find a drunken skank and take her to a secluded location. He first [[{{Squick}} demonstrates his preferred blowjob technique on Spud]] and then proceeds to rape first her mouth, then her arse, also forcing the two of them to have sex in their messed up state. Then he gets into a big fight with Spud in a pub and later threatens to [[NightmareFuel take his girlfriend Alison "on a date"]].date".
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** While it isn't a surprise to the reader, Sick Boy had no idea that Renton gave Spud his share of the money. He's honestly hurt to learn that his ex-HeterosexualLifePartner was ultimately more loyal to Spud, which prompts him to seek revenge (and, in turn, is the catalyst for the entire plot).
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* WhamLine: For Sick Boy, from Spud: ''"HE NEVER RIPPED ME OFF!"''
**OFF!"'' While it isn't a surprise to the reader, Sick Boy had no idea that Renton gave Spud his share of the money. He's honestly hurt to learn that his ex-HeterosexualLifePartner was ultimately more loyal to Spud, which prompts him to seek revenge (and, in turn, is the catalyst for the entire plot).
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Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is still scheming and burning his way through people in the [[LondonTown big smoke]], but something is missing. Leaving his bar job under acrimonious circumstances, he agrees to his auntie Paula's offer of taking over the ''Port Sunshine'' pub back in Leith. He recognises one last big chance to flourish his egotistical obsessions and cashflow: a feature length porn film named "''Seven Rides For Seven Brothers''" starring the hottest sluts and [[GagPenis best hung studs]] in town. Yet the only way to fund this project is to scam yet more people... like it's going out of fashion. All the while fuelled on a Colombian factory level quantity of cocaine.
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Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is still scheming and burning his way through people in the [[LondonTown [[UsefulNotes/{{London}} big smoke]], but something is missing. Leaving his bar job under acrimonious circumstances, he agrees to his auntie Paula's offer of taking over the ''Port Sunshine'' pub back in Leith. He recognises one last big chance to flourish his egotistical obsessions and cashflow: a feature length porn film named "''Seven Rides For Seven Brothers''" starring the hottest sluts and [[GagPenis best hung studs]] in town. Yet the only way to fund this project is to scam yet more people... like it's going out of fashion. All the while fuelled on a Colombian factory level quantity of cocaine.
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* BatmanGambit: Soon after taking over his aunt's pub, Sick Boy starts "Leith Publicans Against Drugs", an organization that gets coverage in the newspaper. He displays the article and a supportive letter from the local police sergeant prominently in the pub, reasoning that no rank-and-file officer would want to embarrass his boss by busting all the drug dealing that Sick Boy depends on taking place in and around the pub. [[spoiler:At the end of the book we learn that it didn't work]]
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* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Sick Boy credits himself with practically everything in the titular porno. Since Nikki and Rab actually wrote the film's script, they are not pleased that he's taking credit for it. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard It comes back to bite him when the police investigate him]].
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* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: InUniverse: Sick Boy credits himself with practically everything in the titular porno. Since Nikki and Rab actually wrote the film's script, they are not pleased that he's taking credit for it. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard It comes back to bite him when the police investigate him]].
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** While it isn't a surprise to the reader, Sick Boy had no idea that Renton gave Spud his share of the money. He's honestly hurt to learn that his ex-HeterosexualLifePartner was ultimately more loyal to Spud, which prompts him to seek revenge (and, in turn, is the catalyst for the entire plot).
** While it isn't a surprise to the reader, Sick Boy had no idea that Renton gave Spud his share of the money. He's honestly hurt to learn that his ex-HeterosexualLifePartner was ultimately more loyal to Spud, which prompts him to seek revenge (and, in turn, is the catalyst for the entire plot).
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** Allison also plays a bigger role this time around.
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* HeelFaithTurn: Second Prize has distanced himself from alcohol and, by extension, the lads, by becoming a Christian. Doesn't stop Begbie from getting him into further trouble...
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* MoralEventHorizon: InUniverse, various characters get alienated from eachother due to their views of this occurring, in actual fact or otherwise.
** From Begbie's perspective, certain people have just gone too far and therefore justifiably aroused his [[{{Wrath}} righteous anger]]. [[OhCrap This can only mean trouble.]] Chronologically:
*** Naturally Renton for absconding with the loot and never bothering to compensate him. He also comes to believe that it was Rents who sent him the gay porn while in the nick, unaware that it was in fact Sick Boy.
*** Sick Boy warns him that his ex-wife June was "washing up" i.e doing crack pipes with Spud in front of their children. Along with heroin, this is one of the drugs Begbie simply cannot abide, and the danger it represents for the boys [[BerserkButton is way too much for him to take]]. In reality, Spud was washing dishes with her to cheer her up after Sean beat up Michael and frazzled her nerves. Unfortunately for all parties, this misunderstanding never gets clarified over the course of the story.
*** Chizzie for being rumoured to have abused young children (while its heavily implied, Begbie doesn't know for certain what he did exactly). [[spoiler: He glasses Chizzie in the neck in front of several witnesses and very much traumatises Second Prize in the process. This also informs much of his paranoia during the latter third of the novel.]]
*** Spud wants to cash out on life insurance so [[SuicideByCop goads him into]] [[DrivenToSuicide killing him too]]. He infuriates Begbie by taunting him about the previous murders, headbutting him and gloating that Renton compensated him alone, all proceeds mainly going to further his heroin supply. But the thing that pushes Begbie over the edge is the simple fact that Spud has, perversely, given up and wants him to murder him. [[spoiler: After a lengthy beating Spud is only barely saved by the arrival of Alison and their wee boy]].
*** Finally, Sick Boy for leading him on throughout the novel and taunting him something fierce while he's in a coma on a hospital bed. [[spoiler: Franco wakes up...]]
** Renton [[{{Revenge}} burns his bridges with Sick Boy for good]] because he misled him into thinking Begbie was still safely behind bars and essentially was just using him for finances while always intending to sic Begbie on him when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the porn film was wrapped]].
** Chizzie crosses it when he wins a hefty payout with Spud (who has taken tranquillisers as a downer) in the horse races. Going out on an epic bender, they find a drunken skank and take her to a secluded location. He first [[{{Squick}} demonstrates his preferred blowjob technique on Spud]] and then proceeds to rape first her mouth, then her arse, also forcing the two of them to have sex in their messed up state. Then he gets into a big fight with Spud in a pub and later threatens to [[NightmareFuel take his girlfriend Alison "on a date"]].
** Nikki is appalled when Sick Boy [[ManipulativeEditing changes the tone of her fellow starlet's skin in the movie's final cut to make it seem as though Nikki had done anal when she had abjectly refused to]] and shown the whole thing to really be a cheap, tacky vanity project for him and him alone. He has misused her trust in the relationship and revealed himself for the nasty, cruel scumbag that he is.
** Sick Boy views this towards Renton [[spoiler: when he steals the money ''a second time'']] and the [[HumiliationConga dominoes start falling on Simon via everybody else]]. He's conveniently ignoring the fact that he really did deserve this punishment.
** From Begbie's perspective, certain people have just gone too far and therefore justifiably aroused his [[{{Wrath}} righteous anger]]. [[OhCrap This can only mean trouble.]] Chronologically:
*** Naturally Renton for absconding with the loot and never bothering to compensate him. He also comes to believe that it was Rents who sent him the gay porn while in the nick, unaware that it was in fact Sick Boy.
*** Sick Boy warns him that his ex-wife June was "washing up" i.e doing crack pipes with Spud in front of their children. Along with heroin, this is one of the drugs Begbie simply cannot abide, and the danger it represents for the boys [[BerserkButton is way too much for him to take]]. In reality, Spud was washing dishes with her to cheer her up after Sean beat up Michael and frazzled her nerves. Unfortunately for all parties, this misunderstanding never gets clarified over the course of the story.
*** Chizzie for being rumoured to have abused young children (while its heavily implied, Begbie doesn't know for certain what he did exactly). [[spoiler: He glasses Chizzie in the neck in front of several witnesses and very much traumatises Second Prize in the process. This also informs much of his paranoia during the latter third of the novel.]]
*** Spud wants to cash out on life insurance so [[SuicideByCop goads him into]] [[DrivenToSuicide killing him too]]. He infuriates Begbie by taunting him about the previous murders, headbutting him and gloating that Renton compensated him alone, all proceeds mainly going to further his heroin supply. But the thing that pushes Begbie over the edge is the simple fact that Spud has, perversely, given up and wants him to murder him. [[spoiler: After a lengthy beating Spud is only barely saved by the arrival of Alison and their wee boy]].
*** Finally, Sick Boy for leading him on throughout the novel and taunting him something fierce while he's in a coma on a hospital bed. [[spoiler: Franco wakes up...]]
** Renton [[{{Revenge}} burns his bridges with Sick Boy for good]] because he misled him into thinking Begbie was still safely behind bars and essentially was just using him for finances while always intending to sic Begbie on him when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the porn film was wrapped]].
** Chizzie crosses it when he wins a hefty payout with Spud (who has taken tranquillisers as a downer) in the horse races. Going out on an epic bender, they find a drunken skank and take her to a secluded location. He first [[{{Squick}} demonstrates his preferred blowjob technique on Spud]] and then proceeds to rape first her mouth, then her arse, also forcing the two of them to have sex in their messed up state. Then he gets into a big fight with Spud in a pub and later threatens to [[NightmareFuel take his girlfriend Alison "on a date"]].
** Nikki is appalled when Sick Boy [[ManipulativeEditing changes the tone of her fellow starlet's skin in the movie's final cut to make it seem as though Nikki had done anal when she had abjectly refused to]] and shown the whole thing to really be a cheap, tacky vanity project for him and him alone. He has misused her trust in the relationship and revealed himself for the nasty, cruel scumbag that he is.
** Sick Boy views this towards Renton [[spoiler: when he steals the money ''a second time'']] and the [[HumiliationConga dominoes start falling on Simon via everybody else]]. He's conveniently ignoring the fact that he really did deserve this punishment.
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** Also, he beats his ex-wife mercilessly due to being misled by [[SmugSnake Sick Boy's snake tongue]]. Then he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown kicks Spud's head in to within an inch of his life]]. Admittedly Spud [[SuicideByCop wanted him to do this at first]] but when he changed his mind, Begbie was not going to stop.
*BecauseISaidSoBecauseISaidSo: One of Begbie's mantras, as per usual.
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** Begbie has spent most of The Nineties in prison and everyone has mobile phones when he gets out, much to his chagrin. Also, his furniture store he owned with [[MarabouStorkNightmares fellow bam Lexo]] has been converted into a Thai restaurant/cafe and he's not best pleased with the poxy payoff given as remuneration. And Sick Boy and Spud can hardly be bothered to play card games with him and the other nutters!
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** Begbie has spent most of The Nineties in prison and everyone has mobile phones when he gets out, much to his chagrin. Also, his furniture store he owned with [[MarabouStorkNightmares [[Literature/MarabouStorkNightmares fellow bam Lexo]] has been converted into a Thai restaurant/cafe and he's not best pleased with the poxy payoff given as remuneration. And Sick Boy and Spud can hardly be bothered to play card games with him and the other nutters!
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** Of course, he starts the book in prison for murdering someone in rage due to Renton's actions in the [[{{Trainspotting}} previous book]]. He gets it down to manslaughter by [[DeliberateInjuryGambit stabbing himself to make it look like self defence]].
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* BiggusDickus: Curtis, a shy teenager whom Sick Boy initially refers to as "an apprentice Spud" until his sees the size of his penis in the toilets. He is immediately signed up for the titular porno.
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Creator/IrvineWelsh's fifth novel, ''Porno'' is the sequel to the iconic ''Trainspotting'', following the original's four core characters plus a new female addition. It's a study of how far you can push friendship and relationships in the face of betrayal, past mistakes and differing agendas. Other major themes include paranoia in the context of the hunter and the hunted, and attempting to prosper in elder years amongst a cohort and environment which has changed almost unrecognisably [[TurnOfTheMillennium in the new millennium.]]
Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is still scheming and burning his way through people in the [[LondonTown big smoke]], but something is missing. Leaving his bar job under acromonious circumstances, he agrees to his auntie Paula's offer of taking over the ''Port Sunshine'' pub back in Leith. He recognises one last big chance to flourish his egotistical obsessions and cashflow: a feature length porn film named "''Seven Rides For Seven Brothers''" starring the hottest sluts and [[GagPenis best hung studs]] in town. Yet the only way to fund this project is to scam yet more people... like its going out of fashion. All the while fuelled on a Colombian factory level quantity of cocaine.
Mark Renton has, believe it or not, been enjoying a prosperous life in Amsterdam. Notoriously fleeing his friends at the end of ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' with thousands of pounds, he's cleaned up from hard drugs and invested in a popular nightclub.
Nevertheless, he's wary of an encounter with his old mates and has been practicing karate for an eventual encounter with the dreaded Begbie. What's more, he's tired of his relationship with a jaded German woman and knows that sooner or later he'll have to be moving onward. But even his cautious adminstration of the club behind the scenes can't keep him hidden from Leith eyes for ever...
Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is still scheming and burning his way through people in the [[LondonTown big smoke]], but something is missing. Leaving his bar job under acromonious circumstances, he agrees to his auntie Paula's offer of taking over the ''Port Sunshine'' pub back in Leith. He recognises one last big chance to flourish his egotistical obsessions and cashflow: a feature length porn film named "''Seven Rides For Seven Brothers''" starring the hottest sluts and [[GagPenis best hung studs]] in town. Yet the only way to fund this project is to scam yet more people... like its going out of fashion. All the while fuelled on a Colombian factory level quantity of cocaine.
Mark Renton has, believe it or not, been enjoying a prosperous life in Amsterdam. Notoriously fleeing his friends at the end of ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' with thousands of pounds, he's cleaned up from hard drugs and invested in a popular nightclub.
Nevertheless, he's wary of an encounter with his old mates and has been practicing karate for an eventual encounter with the dreaded Begbie. What's more, he's tired of his relationship with a jaded German woman and knows that sooner or later he'll have to be moving onward. But even his cautious adminstration of the club behind the scenes can't keep him hidden from Leith eyes for ever...
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Creator/IrvineWelsh's fifth novel, ''Porno'' is the sequel to the iconic ''Trainspotting'', ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'', following the original's four core characters plus a new female addition. It's a study of how far you can push friendship and relationships in the face of betrayal, past mistakes and differing agendas. Other major themes include paranoia in the context of the hunter and the hunted, and attempting to prosper in elder years amongst a cohort and environment which has changed almost unrecognisably [[TurnOfTheMillennium in the new millennium.]]
Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is still scheming and burning his way through people in the [[LondonTown big smoke]], but something is missing. Leaving his bar job underacromonious acrimonious circumstances, he agrees to his auntie Paula's offer of taking over the ''Port Sunshine'' pub back in Leith. He recognises one last big chance to flourish his egotistical obsessions and cashflow: a feature length porn film named "''Seven Rides For Seven Brothers''" starring the hottest sluts and [[GagPenis best hung studs]] in town. Yet the only way to fund this project is to scam yet more people... like its it's going out of fashion. All the while fuelled on a Colombian factory level quantity of cocaine.
Mark Renton has, believe it or not, been enjoying a prosperous life in Amsterdam. Notoriously fleeing his friends at the end of ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' with thousands of pounds, he's cleaned up from hard drugs and invested in a popularnightclub.
nightclub. Nevertheless, he's wary of an encounter with his old mates and has been practicing karate for an eventual encounter with the dreaded Begbie. What's more, he's tired of his relationship with a jaded German woman and knows that sooner or later he'll have to be moving onward. But even his cautious adminstration administration of the club behind the scenes can't keep him hidden from Leith eyes for ever...
Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is still scheming and burning his way through people in the [[LondonTown big smoke]], but something is missing. Leaving his bar job under
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** Begbie has spent most of The Nineties in prison and everyone has mobile phones when he gets out, much to his chagrin. Also, his furniture store he owned with [[MaribouStorkNightmares fellow bam Lexo]] has been converted into a Thai restaurant/cafe and he's not best pleased with the poxy payoff given as remuneration. And Sick Boy and Spud can hardly be bothered to play card games with him and the other nutters!
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** Begbie has spent most of The Nineties in prison and everyone has mobile phones when he gets out, much to his chagrin. Also, his furniture store he owned with [[MaribouStorkNightmares [[MarabouStorkNightmares fellow bam Lexo]] has been converted into a Thai restaurant/cafe and he's not best pleased with the poxy payoff given as remuneration. And Sick Boy and Spud can hardly be bothered to play card games with him and the other nutters!nutters!
-->''"Wits fuckin wrong with ivray cunt?!"''
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Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is still scheming and burning his way through people in the [[LondonTown big smoke]], but something is missing. Leaving his bar job under acromonious circumstances, he agrees to his auntie Paula's offer of taking over the ''Port Sunshine'' pub back in Leith. He recognises one last big chance to flourish his egotistical obsessions and cashflow: a feature length porn film named "''Seven Rides For Seven Brothers''" starring the hottest sluts and [[GagPenis best hung studs]] in town. Yet the only way to fund this project is to scam yet more people... like its going out of fashion.
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Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is still scheming and burning his way through people in the [[LondonTown big smoke]], but something is missing. Leaving his bar job under acromonious circumstances, he agrees to his auntie Paula's offer of taking over the ''Port Sunshine'' pub back in Leith. He recognises one last big chance to flourish his egotistical obsessions and cashflow: a feature length porn film named "''Seven Rides For Seven Brothers''" starring the hottest sluts and [[GagPenis best hung studs]] in town. Yet the only way to fund this project is to scam yet more people... like its going out of fashion.
fashion. All the while fuelled on a Colombian factory level quantity of cocaine.
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** HumiliationConga: Sick Boy gets ''fucked over'' at the end of the novel. Just look at his [[Characters/Trainspotting [[{{Characters/Trainspotting}} character tropes]] to learn the myriad ways in which this transpires.
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Creator/IrvineWelsh's fifth novel, ''Porno'' is the sequel to the iconic ''Trainspotting'', following the original's four core characters plus a new female addition. It's a study of how far you can push friendship and relationships in the face of betrayal, past mistakes and differing agendas. Other major themes include paranoia in the context of the hunter and the hunted, and attempting to prosper in elder years amongst a cohort and environment which has changed almost unrecognisably [[TurnOfTheMillenium in the new millennium.]]
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Creator/IrvineWelsh's fifth novel, ''Porno'' is the sequel to the iconic ''Trainspotting'', following the original's four core characters plus a new female addition. It's a study of how far you can push friendship and relationships in the face of betrayal, past mistakes and differing agendas. Other major themes include paranoia in the context of the hunter and the hunted, and attempting to prosper in elder years amongst a cohort and environment which has changed almost unrecognisably [[TurnOfTheMillenium [[TurnOfTheMillennium in the new millennium.]]
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And last but not least, Danny "Spud" Murphy is at a crossroads with his girlfriend Alison. He's almost finally kicked heroin, but minor relapses, thefts and continued unemployment are doing nothing to impress her. Forced to live independently from Ali and their son, he decides to write a celebration of local Leith history to turn his fortunes around. However, a horrific drinking session with his prison [[SarcasmMode chum]] [[SexOffender Chizzy]] and difficult reunions with the old school crew threaten his hopes for a better life.
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And last but not least, Danny "Spud" Murphy is at a crossroads with his girlfriend Alison. He's almost finally kicked heroin, but minor relapses, thefts and continued unemployment are doing nothing to impress her. Forced to live independently from Ali and their son, he decides to write a celebration of local Leith history to turn his fortunes around. However, a horrific drinking session with his prison [[SarcasmMode chum]] [[SexOffender [[PaedoHunt Chizzy]] and difficult reunions with the old school crew threaten his hopes for a better life.
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* FreestateAmsterdam: Renton's place of safe haven since the original novel, and Rab's stag do get away of choice. Sick Boy eagerly joins the stag just so he can track down Mark to demand his money back and bring Rents back to the fold.
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Sick Boy has [[ManipulativeBastard Scam # 18,732-18,753.]]
Nikki has [[BuffySpeak "...quote from chapter..."]]
Spud has Quote Fae Chapter.
Renton has Whores Of Amsterdam Pt 1 through 12.
Begbie has [[AxCrazy QUOTE FAE FUCKIN CHAPTER.]]
** The three sections overall are named Stag, Porno and Exhibition (ironically, as each character's true nature becomes apparent for all to see, and Sick Boy makes an utter spectacle out of himself).
Nikki has [[BuffySpeak "...quote from chapter..."]]
Spud has Quote Fae Chapter.
Renton has Whores Of Amsterdam Pt 1 through 12.
Begbie has [[AxCrazy QUOTE FAE FUCKIN CHAPTER.]]
** The three sections overall are named Stag, Porno and Exhibition (ironically, as each character's true nature becomes apparent for all to see, and Sick Boy makes an utter spectacle out of himself).
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** Sick Boy has [[ManipulativeBastard Scam # 18,732-18,753.]]
** Nikki has [[BuffySpeak "...quote from chapter..."]]
** Spud has [[FunetikAksent Quote FaeChapter.
Renton has Whores Of Amsterdam Pt 1 through 12.
Begbie has [[AxCrazy QUOTE FAE FUCKIN CHAPTER.Chapter.]]
** Renton has Whores Of Amsterdam Pt 1 through 12.
** Begbie has [[AxCrazy QUOTE FAE FUCKIN CHAPTER.]]
*** The three sections overall are named Stag, Porno and Exhibition (ironically, as each character's true nature becomes apparent for all to see, and Sick Boy makes an utter spectacle out of himself).
** Nikki has [[BuffySpeak "...quote from chapter..."]]
** Spud has [[FunetikAksent Quote Fae
Renton has Whores Of Amsterdam Pt 1 through 12.
Begbie has [[AxCrazy QUOTE FAE FUCKIN CHAPTER.
** Renton has Whores Of Amsterdam Pt 1 through 12.
** Begbie has [[AxCrazy QUOTE FAE FUCKIN CHAPTER.]]
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Creator/IrvineWelsh's fifth novel, ''Porno'' is the sequel to the iconic ''Trainspotting'', following the original's four core characters plus a new female addition. It's a study of how far you can push friendship and relationships in the face of betrayal, past mistakes and differing agendas. Other major themes include paranoia in the context of the hunter and the hunted, and attempting to prosper in elder years amongst a cohort and environment which has changed almost unrecognisably [[TurnOfTheMillenium in the new millennium.]]
Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is still scheming and burning his way through people in the [[LondonTown big smoke]], but something is missing. Leaving his bar job under acromonious circumstances, he agrees to his auntie Paula's offer of taking over the ''Port Sunshine'' pub back in Leith. He recognises one last big chance to flourish his egotistical obsessions and cashflow: a feature length porn film named "''Seven Rides For Seven Brothers''" starring the hottest sluts and [[GagPenis best hung studs]] in town. Yet the only way to fund this project is to scam yet more people... like its going out of fashion.
Mark Renton has, believe it or not, been enjoying a prosperous life in Amsterdam. Notoriously fleeing his friends at the end of ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' with thousands of pounds, he's cleaned up from hard drugs and invested in a popular nightclub.
Nevertheless, he's wary of an encounter with his old mates and has been practicing karate for an eventual encounter with the dreaded Begbie. What's more, he's tired of his relationship with a jaded German woman and knows that sooner or later he'll have to be moving onward. But even his cautious adminstration of the club behind the scenes can't keep him hidden from Leith eyes for ever...
Nicola Fuller Smith or "Nikki" is a twenty five year old English student and proud super-bitch who feels her life is stalling with no decent opportunities ahead of her. She's bored of her modules, changes uni and programme frequently and relies on illicit massage therapy at a local sauna to make up the bills. Joining her highly strung flatmate Lauren and their new friend [[Literature/{{Glue}} Rab Birrel]] on the Edinburgh film studies course, she gets introduced to his sex crazed mate from way back, Terry "Juice" Lawson and his posse of stag video associates. Enjoying the company, and encouraged by Rab's ideas of making a "thinking man's porno", she signs up for a leading role and gets into a torrid affair with Simon. She also is a main player when it comes to the writing and financing of the picture.
Franco Begbie has been serving further prison time for a murder of one of his psycho contemporaries (albeit he managed to disguise it as a justified self defence kill). Tormented by anonymously-sent gay erotica magazines and brooding heavily about revenge on various parties (not least of which Renton), he walks out of Saughton with the intention of never returning. But he's eager to pick up things exactly where they left off and find a new "burd" to replace his battered ex-wife, June. Parenting their two sons however isn't high on his priority list.
And last but not least, Danny "Spud" Murphy is at a crossroads with his girlfriend Alison. He's almost finally kicked heroin, but minor relapses, thefts and continued unemployment are doing nothing to impress her. Forced to live independently from Ali and their son, he decides to write a celebration of local Leith history to turn his fortunes around. However, a horrific drinking session with his prison [[SarcasmMode chum]] [[SexOffender Chizzy]] and difficult reunions with the old school crew threaten his hopes for a better life.
* AxCrazy: Begbie [[UpToEleven outdoes himself here]], popping his murder cherry for the first time. Well, that we know of, at least.
* BecauseISaidSo
* Fish Out of Temporal Water: To lesser and greater degrees, all of the lads:
** Begbie has spent most of The Nineties in prison and everyone has mobile phones when he gets out, much to his chagrin.
** Sick Boy's ability to charm women is diminishing as his gut widens, his nose rots and his looks fade. This was the primary interest of his in 1980s Leith. Also, he forgets once again that if you're going to use people, they might just bite back. They're wiser to his game this time round.
** Renton has spent the last decade in [[FreestateAmsterdam the Dam]] and finds Leith to have morphed beyond his comprehension in the interim.
** Spud is still hitting bad luck again and again, and the new order has even less place for him than it did back in the day.
* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Chapter Naming]]: Each character has their individual chapter naming convention:
Sick Boy has [[ManipulativeBastard Scam # 18,732-18,753.]]
Nikki has [[BuffySpeak "...quote from chapter..."]]
Spud has Quote Fae Chapter.
Renton has Whores Of Amsterdam Pt 1 through 12.
Begbie has [[AxCrazy QUOTE FAE FUCKIN CHAPTER.]]
** The three sections overall are named Stag, Porno and Exhibition (ironically, as each character's true nature becomes apparent for all to see, and Sick Boy makes an utter spectacle out of himself).
* SexEqualsLove: Dianne and Mark finally end up together, making this trope applicable even though it takes them ten years to get there.
* SmallNameBigEgo: This comes to shine very clearly through the cracks of Sick Boy's deceit.
Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is still scheming and burning his way through people in the [[LondonTown big smoke]], but something is missing. Leaving his bar job under acromonious circumstances, he agrees to his auntie Paula's offer of taking over the ''Port Sunshine'' pub back in Leith. He recognises one last big chance to flourish his egotistical obsessions and cashflow: a feature length porn film named "''Seven Rides For Seven Brothers''" starring the hottest sluts and [[GagPenis best hung studs]] in town. Yet the only way to fund this project is to scam yet more people... like its going out of fashion.
Mark Renton has, believe it or not, been enjoying a prosperous life in Amsterdam. Notoriously fleeing his friends at the end of ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' with thousands of pounds, he's cleaned up from hard drugs and invested in a popular nightclub.
Nevertheless, he's wary of an encounter with his old mates and has been practicing karate for an eventual encounter with the dreaded Begbie. What's more, he's tired of his relationship with a jaded German woman and knows that sooner or later he'll have to be moving onward. But even his cautious adminstration of the club behind the scenes can't keep him hidden from Leith eyes for ever...
Nicola Fuller Smith or "Nikki" is a twenty five year old English student and proud super-bitch who feels her life is stalling with no decent opportunities ahead of her. She's bored of her modules, changes uni and programme frequently and relies on illicit massage therapy at a local sauna to make up the bills. Joining her highly strung flatmate Lauren and their new friend [[Literature/{{Glue}} Rab Birrel]] on the Edinburgh film studies course, she gets introduced to his sex crazed mate from way back, Terry "Juice" Lawson and his posse of stag video associates. Enjoying the company, and encouraged by Rab's ideas of making a "thinking man's porno", she signs up for a leading role and gets into a torrid affair with Simon. She also is a main player when it comes to the writing and financing of the picture.
Franco Begbie has been serving further prison time for a murder of one of his psycho contemporaries (albeit he managed to disguise it as a justified self defence kill). Tormented by anonymously-sent gay erotica magazines and brooding heavily about revenge on various parties (not least of which Renton), he walks out of Saughton with the intention of never returning. But he's eager to pick up things exactly where they left off and find a new "burd" to replace his battered ex-wife, June. Parenting their two sons however isn't high on his priority list.
And last but not least, Danny "Spud" Murphy is at a crossroads with his girlfriend Alison. He's almost finally kicked heroin, but minor relapses, thefts and continued unemployment are doing nothing to impress her. Forced to live independently from Ali and their son, he decides to write a celebration of local Leith history to turn his fortunes around. However, a horrific drinking session with his prison [[SarcasmMode chum]] [[SexOffender Chizzy]] and difficult reunions with the old school crew threaten his hopes for a better life.
* AxCrazy: Begbie [[UpToEleven outdoes himself here]], popping his murder cherry for the first time. Well, that we know of, at least.
* BecauseISaidSo
* Fish Out of Temporal Water: To lesser and greater degrees, all of the lads:
** Begbie has spent most of The Nineties in prison and everyone has mobile phones when he gets out, much to his chagrin.
** Sick Boy's ability to charm women is diminishing as his gut widens, his nose rots and his looks fade. This was the primary interest of his in 1980s Leith. Also, he forgets once again that if you're going to use people, they might just bite back. They're wiser to his game this time round.
** Renton has spent the last decade in [[FreestateAmsterdam the Dam]] and finds Leith to have morphed beyond his comprehension in the interim.
** Spud is still hitting bad luck again and again, and the new order has even less place for him than it did back in the day.
* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Chapter Naming]]: Each character has their individual chapter naming convention:
Sick Boy has [[ManipulativeBastard Scam # 18,732-18,753.]]
Nikki has [[BuffySpeak "...quote from chapter..."]]
Spud has Quote Fae Chapter.
Renton has Whores Of Amsterdam Pt 1 through 12.
Begbie has [[AxCrazy QUOTE FAE FUCKIN CHAPTER.]]
** The three sections overall are named Stag, Porno and Exhibition (ironically, as each character's true nature becomes apparent for all to see, and Sick Boy makes an utter spectacle out of himself).
* SexEqualsLove: Dianne and Mark finally end up together, making this trope applicable even though it takes them ten years to get there.
* SmallNameBigEgo: This comes to shine very clearly through the cracks of Sick Boy's deceit.
