--- product_id: 202271660 title: "Trainspotting" brand: "irvine welshtam dean burnrandom house audiobooks" price: "FREE" currency: VUV in_stock: false reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/202271660-trainspotting store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Trainspotting **Brand:** irvine welshtam dean burnrandom house audiobooks **Price:** FREE **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Trainspotting by irvine welshtam dean burnrandom house audiobooks - **How much does it cost?** FREE with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/202271660-trainspotting) ## Best For - irvine welshtam dean burnrandom house audiobooks enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted irvine welshtam dean burnrandom house audiobooks brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Trainspotting - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71rI3CS5jbL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It hit me in the gut. *by K***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2014* If you ever told me I'd cry reading this book, I'd be like, what? I've seen the movie, you see, a long time ago. But I did. I cried like a baby. I cried at a part in the middle of the book, the part that starts off the movie, the famous words of "Choose life. Choose…" Well, in case you haven't read the book and haven't seen the movie, you'll get what I mean, once you do both. I'm actually about to jump into re-watching the movie again, now that I'm done reading. And, WOW. Just, WOW. This is not prose, this is poetry, a powerful cocktail of juxtaposition, Scottish profanities galore injected with searching for the answer to this persistent question. Why live? Why go for hypocrisy, for squalor, for stark morose grim existence of the so called life if we're all going to die anyway? Why not get on the needle and not bother about anything, basking in that mythology of everything will be just splendid? There are so many layers here, I feel like I only started digging. And then, of course, I don't think I can read proper English after this, after indulging on phonetically spelled Scottish awesomeness, on top of it, me being not a native English speaker. It's a feast.Well, so the story itself is a maze of episodes taken from the lives of junkie mates and their friends, narrated primarily by Rents, or Mark Renton. We jump back and forth between scenes of scoring drugs, injecting drugs, withdrawing from drugs, getting on drugs again, all the while revolving around everything that goes with it, HIV infections, sex, violence, death, neglect, you name it, everything under the sun is here, and more, the constant background of moral choice against pure survival. Which outweighs which? We get to see several different perspectives of different characters, most of them colorfully doused with all kinds of human liquid, like puddles of urine, vomit, feces, blood, and everything in between, with rare glimpses of love here and there and this strange soberness that causes them to look up and realize what hole they've sunk into, but only for a moment, before returning back to the needle. The power of language is such that when you raise your head to catch a breath from reading, you're disoriented for a while, not sure where you are and how you got there. The only wish I had was to get back into the book, annoying those around me, perhaps because the topic rung true to me. I've never been on drugs, but I've been suicidal, and maybe that's why I cried. I felt this desire to destroy yourself behind the rage, the anger, the need to escape it all, for not being accepted, for being lonely, for being so numb that the only way to feel something was to get high. You know it's an illusion, but you don't care. Anything goes. it hit me in the gut, this book, and it will hit me again and again, as I plan to reread it. Now I'm off, watching the movie, and I hope you're off to read this book, because you bloody have to. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you've seen the movie first.. *by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2021* Then you know what you're getting into. I read Skagboys first, so by the time I got to Trainspotting, I was used to the slang and spellings of words people seem to have so such trouble with. A bit of advice that helped me, don't focus on each word you don't understand. I'm American, so the Scottish accent of the characters was a bit hard at first, but if you read it normal and don't spend so much time trying to focus on words like "thit" and "ayewis", you'll see them as "that" and "always" as intended. Also, I found out much too late, there's a glossary in the back (in the Kindle version, at least).Other people had trouble with first person point of view, too, trying to figure which was which. Understandable, but each character is written differently. Renton is more straight, Spud says "likesay" and "ken" a lot and Begby, well, I'll just say he uses a particular vulgar word for a female part to refer to everyone.If the movie was a bit much for you, this may not be for you. I loved the movies and now the books. Gritty, raw and realistic. Welsh's ability to describe feelings and social situations is so spot on, even relatable in a sense. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not a novel but a short story collection *by T***A on Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2019* So, I hate the film Trainspotting and have never been able to sit through the entire thing. I got the book because I was looking to practice Scots dialect, and I'd lived in Edinburgh for a while so it was of interest because of that. Now, the book isn't so much a novel as a collection of short stories, and it takes a few to get into the rhythm of what you can expect of these stories. Once I had it down I was quite hooked. This is an older book at this point (the action seems to take place in the late 1980s or so) and I suppose the kind of topics dealt with are a little more common of older books (political correctness has kind of run amok in the last decade or two and hardly anyone publishes anything that might be offensive to someone.) For example we get, in Trainspotting, short stories that involve one of the main characters having brief but pretty graphic sex with a 14 year old, obviously a ton of drug use, characters getting AIDS and HIV, unpleasant gay sex, animal abuse, touches of racism, physically abusive relationships, misogyny, the notorious dead baby (whose haunting in the book is much more sexually graphic), and so forth. Moreover, it's usually done with a tinge of humor about the whole thing. Man, I don't think anyone would dare publish this nowadays but I loved it. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/202271660-trainspotting](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/202271660-trainspotting) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-17*