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I've just finished dead mens trousers (which I thought I had read before but haven't)

The book again, centres around our old friends, Renton, spud, sick boy and franco begbie as they near their 50s in the lead up to Brexit.

I can only say I enjoyed reading the book due to the fact it has these 4 as its main characters.

Time and time again, welsh, in his usual manner pops in many little plot lines that make you want to find out what happens as you read the book. Unfortunatly when I got the outcome of each one I was sadly left flat and disappointed, thatsbif I hadnt already guessed what the outcome would be. An example of this is at the begining we are given a plotline about rentons leading DJ(yes hes a jet setting manager now) having a dildo glued to his forehead minutes before he has to perform a gig, this is the start of rentons paranoia about losing his best paying DJ to a rival company. Only to get to the end, and the outcome of that is just a throwaway line about Renton finding out he blamed the wrong person.

The whole book seems to have been written for the people who have read the other books about our 4 comrades. There is no depth of character descriptions as we head from one warehouse to the other guzzling up the fuel miles as we go.

It took me a day and a half to read the whole book which is enjoyable enough if you are already invested in the story of these 4 friends, but if not it will have seemed like a waste of time as the book trundle to its ani climax ending, which left even me wondering why I even bothered.

Pretty lazy stuff from the once brilliant welsh.