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title: "Skagboys"
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# Skagboys

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Skagboys

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Fitting Start to the Trainspotting Trilogy
  

*by T***7 on Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2012*

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, Begbie. Only this time, we meet Leith's finest schemies in their early twenties - just as they're developing that nasty little heroin habit which was the focal point of Trainspotting.So yes, it's a prequel to Trainspotting, featuring characters that should be familiar to fans of the earlier book or its cinematic adaptation. But, as always, Welsh is not afraid to delve a little deeper. While on the surface a simple story of a hopeless descent into addiction, the novel also chronicles the sad devolution of the working class in dystopian mid-eighties Scotland.It's quite interesting, but also quite depressing, to bear witness to the slow ravaging of blue collar Scottish society, whose denizens turn to drugs and violence to numb the economic and social hardships incurred by the rise of Maggie's Farm. The novel also deals with the rampant incursion of AIDS into Edinburgh - once Europe's AIDS capital - which spreads all too rapidly through shared needle use and illicit sex.If you're a fan of Trainspotting, or it's excellent sequel Porno (which revisits our anti-heroes in their mid thirties) then I simply can't recommend this read enough. In the off chance you've read some of Welsh's other works, and haven't got around to Trainspotting, then I'd advise you to start here. Be warned, though - as with all the author's works, this is definitely NOT for the faint of heart.Vintage Welsh. It's a good thing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Loved it
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2021*

I loved this book.As an American, the slang and written accents were hard at first that I wasn't sure I'd be able to make it through to the end. I found the best way is to just keep reading and not focusing on each word you don't know. They're mostly words you know like "to" and "cold", just spelled differently to get the effect of the Scottish accent.That being said, I loved getting the back stories of the characters. Welsh has an insanely awesome ability to describe the feelings of the characters and situations they're in, in a way that's relatable (even though I've never been a male junky in Scotland). I thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn't put it doon.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great book.  Maybe a bit long.
  

*by E***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2013*

This book is a must read for Welsh fans.  If you read the cover, you know how it starts, and if you read or saw Trainspotting, you know how it ends, so it would be hard to give any spoilers even if I were inclined to.The central story is the decline of Mark Renton, who starts out as a university student with a wonderful girlfriend and a real shot at "getting out" and ends up, well, you know.  That theme is compelling, but the book also cycles through vignettes of the other main characters: Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie, as well as several other peripheral characters.  With the exception of Begbie - who is a constant through all three books - they all "fall", but since they don't have as far to fall as Renton, they pretty quickly end up in the state you meet them in Trainspotting.  The stories are poignant and well written, but after a while, I did find that they became a bit repetitive, and it became a bit of a slog to get to the end - particularly, as I said, when I knew pretty much what the end was going to be.  Personally, I think it would have been more effective if it had been pruned a bit.Much has been said about the phonetic dialectic writing.  I only saw the movie Trainspotting, but if I remember Porno correctly, he only used dialectic writing for some characters (Spud?).  In this book, it's most characters.  I'm pretty ambivalent about it.  I think it adds a bit of flavor, but on the other hand, I would have been happy for him to only use it when someone was talking.  Since he used it for everything, I eventually just stopeed noticing.So definitely well worth reading, but you may find yourself skimming in places.

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