In the Independent on Sunday Doug Johnstone profiles the classic novel and its author, in Irvine Welsh: We're all Trainspotters now, where 'The Scottish author -- and the young writers he influenced -- assess the legacy of his debut'.
I was very impressed by Trainspotting when I first read it, in 1994; Welsh isn't anywhere close to the writer Alasdair Gray or James Kelman are (and he probably should have quit while he was ahead -- i.e. then and there), but Trainspotting was a hell of a reading experience for and at that time. (Get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.)
I was very impressed by Trainspotting when I first read it, in 1994; Welsh isn't anywhere close to the writer Alasdair Gray or James Kelman are (and he probably should have quit while he was ahead -- i.e. then and there), but Trainspotting was a hell of a reading experience for and at that time. (Get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.)