Skagboys by Irvine Welsh

Great to hear that Irvine Welshs Skagboys will be out soon. By all accounts it is his greatest work. Trainspotting was a beautiful book that changed or opened possibilities for the novel. Though some found the dialect difficult it sopoke to me in a way no book had before. Using the first person narratives of strikingly different characters and rejecting conventions of symmetry it gave voice to a generation of young disenfranchised men. The players were as if I knew them and the thought of seeing them on the screen was exciting. I have seldom been so disappointed in a film as I was when I walked out of Trainspotting. All intelligence was thrown away in favour of a 'Carry on up the hypodermic' comedy. 

Time went by, Welshs cash in books of its' back such as Ecstasy weren't bad but it wouldn't be until Glue that he found his way again. Skagboys doesn't sound promising, playing in to the drug porn hand yet, if al,l I read is true the book delivers. Essentially Trainspotting is an accurate look at a group of working class males growing up together and as such is peerless.