Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Reviews of Porno

Porno
Author: Irvine Welsh
ISBN-13: 9780965478199
ISBN-10: 096547819X
Rating:
  ?

0 stars, based on 0 rating
Book Type: Paperback
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

4 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed Porno on + 39 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Trainspotting author. Very weird. Funny in a dark way. lots of shock value
Farscapegirl avatar reviewed Porno on + 180 more book reviews
Porno is a sequel to Trainspotting, and builds on the success of that caustic and very funny novel by taking some of the characters through some radical new catastrophes. Sick Boy returns to Edinburgh with his ventures as a pimp and hustler in London having gone pear-shaped. Desperate for money, he comes up with a new idea, one that (he hopes) will really rake in the cash: the production of a low-rent porn film. Now Welsh introduces us to a new development: the novels Sick Girl, Nicola Fuller-Smith, the object of Sick Boy's fevered lust, whom he also believes will be his passport to all kinds of substance-abusing happiness needless to say, hes in for a rude awakening.

Other favourite characters from Trainspotting make a welcome reappearance: Renton, Begbie (even more psychotically dangerous than in the earlier book) and the unfortunate Spud, still unable to kick the drugs. Welsh fans need not hesitate: this is every bit as exuberant, hilarious, disgusting and irresistible as its predecessor.
reviewed Porno on + 32 more book reviews
Cool to see what happens to the folks from Trainspotting.
reviewed Porno on + 11 more book reviews
The Trainspotting lads are back... and in worse shape than ever. This is a novel about the Trainspotting crew ten years further down the line: still scheming, still scamming, still fighting for the first-class seats as the train careens at high velocity with derailment looming around the next corner.