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can't really write any more sequels when one of your main characters is dead. but you know what we CAN write?? prequels!!! 😁

I haven't started reading yet but the blurb on the back of this book says "One of these four will not survive. Who is wearing Dead Men's Trousers?" OK? WHY would you tell me that BEFORE I even start. now I'm scared!! yes they're largely awful people but I've spent like 4 books and 2 films with them you can't just dump that info on me like that!!

anyway if it's Sick Boy this book gets 5 stars. if it's Spud... 1 star

Begbie artiste era. instead of battering people's heads in, he's now battering some clay in the shape of people's heads to make beautiful sculptures. how inspiring ❤️

you know Spud is sometimes portrayed as sort of like Irvine Welsh's self-insert. which signals to me that Welsh is egotistical (Spud is the only tolerable and genuinely kind-hearted person in any of these books) but also somehow extremely self-loathing (nothing good EVER happens to Spud and nothing ever changes because he's a victim of his own complacency)

if Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson has a million haters, I am one of them
if Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson has ten haters, I am one of them
if Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson has one hater, I am that hater
if Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson has 0 haters, I am dead
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every time I think Irvine Welsh can't possibly come up with something even more messed up to write about, he somehow does. I am horrified. I am clutching my pearls so hard every blood vessel in my hand has spontaneously combusted