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Mark Renton's got it all: he's young, smart, and good-looking with his own flat, girlfriend, and a place at Aberdeen University. But there is no room for him in the 80s. As Thatcherism demolishes working-class communities across the UK, Renton's family fractures and he finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into the unsavory, drug-infested side of the Northern Soul scene as he succumbs to defeatism and despair. His life begins to fall apart, but nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse.His friends aren't doing much better. Frank Begbie's increasingly unhinged and violent behavior is making him a feared name across Leith. Spud is laid off from his furniture removals job and unable to find new employment. Tommy Lawrence is unwillingly sucked into the world of petty crime by Begbie and Matty Connelly. And Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is becoming more and more at the mercy of the inner rage which compels him to scar, manipulate, and torment everyone he can. But with bust comes opportunity...The highly-anticipated prequel to Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, Skagboys tells the story of the disintegration of these friends against the backdrop of Edinburgh in the 1980s: a time and place of drugs, poverty, AIDS, violence and rapidly vanishing hope for the future. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Begbie goes way beyond the embryonic football hooligan he was first chronologically introduced as in Glue. He gets caught up in a paternity dispute with another rough local family. Needless to say, he doesn't want to raise the kid. After stabbing one of her brothers and hospitalising him, Begbie decides to take matters into his own hands. Attacking the eldest, hardest brother with a fence railing, he breaks the guy's jaw and sends several of his teeth flying. As if that wasn't enough, he accentuates the point by driving the spiked end into the poor lad's crotch and smacks him twice more in the face. Much to Tommy's stunned horror. | |
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Dinner and a Show: When Alexander brings Alison to visit his family at a barbecue shortly after she starts working for him, his sister and mother confront him over his separation from his wife and children. She's pissed enough to find it amusing. | |
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Scary Teeth: We hear about the decline of Renton's teeth from white to yellow and Matty's from yellow to brownish. Toothpaste isn't as valuable as heroin to these lads. The White Swan's teeth, meanwhile, are lovingly described as having a green and brown tinge, like Johnny Rotten's. | |
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Wretched Hive: Leith, where most of the economy was built around the "now practically defunct" port of Edinburgh. If it weren't part of the city it would clearly be a Dying Town. | |
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"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization | |
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"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Inverted by Mark's justification of the hand jobs he gave Wee Davie when he watched Mary Marquis on Friday nights. He says he never took any pleasure in it himself, and believed it was something Davie would have done himself if he could have, and that Davie appreciated it. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Matty. Constantly berated behind his back and in his face for being a junk-addicted scruffy thief with a bad attitude. | |
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Funetik Aksent: A staple for Irvine Welsh. Every character speaks (and is written in) one accent or another; some characters even think and narrate their chapters in their accents. Renton lampshades this while writing his rehab journal, pointedly (and irritatedly) correcting his "correct" English to better reflect how he truly speaks and thinks. Sick Boy, on the other hand, might speak and think in "proper" English while scamming, but inevitably slips back into his true verbiage while with his mates or under stress. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Depending on how much you like their characters, arguably Renton, Spud, Keezbo, Second Prize, Alison, Leslie, and Sick Boy (though this was before his Despair Event Horizon...) among others. Its not entirely clear if Matty was ever what you might call a cutie, and even if he was, he seems to have broken long before even this prequel. | |
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Author Tract | |
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Author Tract: Welsh's thoughts on Thatcherism are blatantly obvious. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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I Have This Friend: In a Call-Back to Alison's use of a strap-on on Sick Boy, Sick Boy tells Renton he knows someone who did it and asks Renton if he thinks that the guy is gay for allowing her to do it. He manages to deflect it to someone that they both consider to be Ambiguously Gay. | |
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Place Worse Than Death | |
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Place Worse Than Death: Wester Hailes has this reputation for Leithers, perhaps more so here than in any other Welsh novel. | |
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Country Matters | |
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Country Matters: Par for the course in a Welsh novel. However, Matty's use stands out. Much more often than not, he simply refers to everyone else as "Cunt". Its no exaggeration to say this helps to make him one of the least sympathetic of the protagonists, and that really does say something when country matters is tossed around as freely as it is by almost every other main (and peripheral) character. Curiously, he seems to have stopped this by the time Trainspotting occurs. This could mean he's more or possibly less dead inside by then, although with all the heroin he's consumed by that point you'd probably have to go with the former. | |
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Erudite Stoner | |
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Erudite Stoner: Renton primarily. Most every drug addict we see have their moments of philosophical insight here and there, though. | |
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Les: "They say that aboot skinny guys. Aw prick n ribs.'' A good description of Spud, and then later his young buddy Curtis with the stammer and dong. | |
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Going Cold Turkey | |
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Going Cold Turkey: Perhaps the ultimate fear of any budding Scottish junkie. Eventually they're forced to endure several months of rehab in a Fife clinic. It doesn't work in the slightest. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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From Bad to Worse: More or less the theme of the novel. Near the beginning, things aren't bright in an overall context but they're not so awful: The characters are living through a depressed Thatcherite era of low employment and social decline, but Renton attends university while working and partying on the side, Sick Boy is a genuine mate despite his lecherous side, Allison begins a promising new job in the face of her mother's terminal illness, etc. But gradually the pressures of drugs and life grind the characters down until they reach the hopeless state we see in Trainspotting. | |
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Deuteragonist | |
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Deuteragonist: Sick Boy takes a close second to Renton as leading man. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: 80s-era Scotland: Employment is dwindling, safety nets are being axed, drug addiction skyrockets and an HIV epidemic has begun to flourish. | |
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Continuity Nod: Even for an Irvine Welsh novel, this one is particularly packed with references to The 'Verse. Above and beyond just the innumerable call forwards to Trainspotting, we have: Bruce Robertson and possibly one of his colleagues from Filth play Good Cop/Bad Cop against Renton, Keezbo and Matty after being lifted for nicking an a charity collection tin. Naturally, we also separately hear about Bruce's irritating boss Robert Toal and his lawyer nemesis, Conrald Donaldson QC. One of the well wishers mentioned in the card for Renton while he's in rehab? None other than Carl Ewart. The lead player in the Edinburgh underworld, Davie "Fat Tyrone" Power from Glue offers Begbie and the other psychos some work installing fruit machines across Edinburgh's pubs. Gina the fat junkie apparently goes on to be the scary boiler who gets her scenes cut in the Porno. Morag the old faithful boiler went from serving Renton chips at Gillsand's joiner yard to holding down the Port Sunshine for Sick Boy. Les: "They say that aboot skinny guys. Aw prick n ribs.'' A good description of Spud, and then later his young buddy Curtis with the stammer and dong. Lesley: Whom appears in Trainspotting and is mentioned in Porno. Renton reflects how he'd one day love to live in Amsterdam. Renton and Sick Boy muse how nobody's going make a movie about them. | |
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The White Swan's teeth, meanwhile, are lovingly described as having a green and brown tinge, like Johnny Rotten's. | |
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Doomed by Canon: Anybody who's already read Trainspotting will already know that Matty and Tommy will die of AIDS. By the end of Skagboys, the final "Notes On An Epidemic" chapter lists a number of HIV positive patients, one of whom is Matty. Likewise, Mark's older brother Billy will be killed in an IRA ambush while serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland. A less fatal example for Second Prize. While his alcoholism is quite dysfunctional in this novel, he eventually gets to the point where he can kick the habit, train for another shot at professional football and sip an orange juice. But Trainspotting shows that the sobriety didn't last. It took much longer until the time of Porno before it stuck and even at that, he's Off the Wagon by the time Dead Men's Trousers rolls around. The last chapter has Renton and Sick Boy poignantly affirming their friendship, and firmly announcing that they will face cold turkey and leave heroin behind. As a prequel to Trainspotting, we know it won't stick. Sure enough, the novel ends with the phone going off, almost certainly from their dealer. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: Several for Trainspotting. Keezbo is mentioned on just one page in the original, where Mark reflects on how he's sadly never going to visit him in prison, but is present and has a significant role to play in the prequel. Ditto for Nicksy, who even gets narration duties with Welsh's version of Cockney. Wee Davie, as much as a poor wee vegetable like him can be considered a character. Sick Boy meets his Greek counterpart Andreas in London for the first time. Charlene, who Renton briefly mentions as being present at a London party he crashes at in the original, turns out to have been a master thief who he had a short, torrid affair with in this novel. To some extent, Matty. Alison, albeit her role was already expanded by the time of Porno. The menacing drug dealing ex biker, Seeker. Retroactively inverted with Kelly. Here she's got a bit part, but as Trainspotting is the sequel to Skagboys it gives her some character development as a budding student and Mark's casual girlfriend. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The gang's more disturbing struggles with heroin really kick off in Junk Dilemmas No. 1-4, with trademark italics. This is an important Call-Forward to Trainspotting. And then you have The Rehab Diaries, intermittently charting 45 days of Renton's cold turkey at St. Monan's. Also, there's Notes On An Epidemic 1-7, explaining the myriad events leading to the skag addiction cum HIV infestation Edinburgh played host to in the eighties. The chapter groupings include: Tempted, Falling, Cold, Thawing, Ocean and Drought, apparently using the metaphor of the spread of disease as an unfortunate accident and the tribulations of attempting to live with it inside you. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Invoked by Alexander when his family criticizes him for leaving his wife, which she had apparently said several times she hoped he would do. | |
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Demoted to Extra: Kelly, Davie and Second Prize, all of whom had narration duties in the Trainspotting. | |
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Ring-Ring-CRUNCH! | |
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Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: "Dirty Dicks" chapter opens with Renton emphatically slugging "a beepin bastard ay a clock intae silence". | |
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Ass Shove: Anal sex occurs a couple of times throughout the book, most notably Renton's sex with Joanne, Spud's attempt with the washed-up singer and Alison's use of a strap-on with Sick Boy. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The original novel informs us that Begbie and Tommy got into a closely matched fight which nearly finished their friendship. Many fans were anticipating this event's full description in the prequel, but it doesn't happen. While a friendly boxing fight (which Tommy won) is mentioned, the epic brawl seems to take place in between the books. Possibly it will emerge as a short story to be published later by Welsh. | |
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Sympathy for the Devil | |
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Sympathy for the Devil: Begbie is a damn good singer when the occasion calls. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Mark is notably disgusted that Billy would happily bang women in their "ma's hoose". A bit rich to judge someone so harshly based on morals of keeping sexuality and family separate, considering he regularly jacked off his mentally-disabled brother (regardless of altruistic intent). | |
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The Nothing After Death | |
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The Nothing After Death: Renton believes this happens after we die. He also thinks we were like this for an eternity before we were born, it's just that uneventful that we can't remember it. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Before Renton and Sick Boy started to actively resent each other and eventually turn mutually treacherous, they just pantomimed insulting each other for their own amusement and that of others. | |
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Inelegant Blubbering | |
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Inelegant Blubbering: Allison is reduced to this after her suicide attempt. Her lover reflects that his mental image of comforting her in her anguish doesn't measure up to the reality at all. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: Thanks to heroin, most of the characters' lives go from grim but hopeful to completely wrecked (some beyond repair). | |
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Start of Darkness: For most of the characters. Renton goes from a low-class working man on his way up to a hopeless criminal junky; Sick Boy from a Loveable Rogue with a heart of gold to a pimp and pusher who would sell out anyone for money and a kick. | |
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Switching P.O.V. | |
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Switching P.O.V.: Amongst a wide array of characters. Done particularly poignantly when covering Billy and the Renton parents, and also so for Alison in the light of her mother's death to breast cancer. | |
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Expy: Keezbo is what Juice Terry could have been if he started on heroin, supported Hearts and had ginger hair. They're both very successful with the ladies despite their weight, and have a penchant for breaking and entering. | |
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Freestate Amsterdam | |
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Freestate Amsterdam: Obviously the shore leave of choice for the gang while "working" the Sealink ferries. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: When the core five plus Keezbo screw over Conrald Donaldson QC's luxury home, they discover that the Spanish house maid has swallowed a lethal cocktail of painkillers and vodka. Renton takes action, inducing her to vomit it all up with the help of the boys and getting her to hospital in a taxi with Spud (who broke his arm while trying to switch off the smoke alarm for Begbie). In return, she agrees to lie on their behalf as though she came back from the hospital after the robbery. | |
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