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	Porno (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Porno (2002) is a novel by Irvine Welsh and is the sequel to Trainspotting.
		We rejoin the central characters of Trainspotting a decade later, as their paths cross again in Leith, this time involving the pornography business, rather than heroin use.
		At his pub, Sick Boy and Spud are in the course of winding each other up in front of Alison; the discussion turns to Renton ripping them off and Spud reveals that he wasn't ripped off, since he had eventually received his share in full, much to Sick Boy's displeasure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porno_(book) (1193 words)

	Splendid: Departments: Bookshelf: Irvine Welsh's 'Porno'
		His other books may have attempted to surpass the monster he created, but have failed for that very reason: Welsh has become so conscious of his legacy that he seems unable to find new and unique voices to add to and redefine his already well-defined literary universe.
		Porno is the story of a group of people who have grown apart and now need to confront each other for one last time in order to make sense of the present and to move on -- if they're lucky.
		Porno fails to live up to Trainspotting's legend, and is ultimately little more than a dear reminder of that other, far superior novel.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/bookshelf/bookshelf12703.html (1121 words)

	Book (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Porno, for what it’s worth, is a brilliant (if unintended) piece of conceptual fiction.
		Then, more importantly, there’s his helming of a porno film being made after-hours with some local stag-film amateurs and his new girlfriend (a university student who moonlights as a principled yanker of cranks at a local “spa”).
		Hubris is the driving force and once that’s established, it’s all a matter of waiting for “it” to happen, as Welsh sets pretty much all his characters on collision courses with one another — emotionally, sexually, conspiratorially, etc. And he does a fine job at times of keeping the reader’s interest piqued.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=69088 (709 words)

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		BOOK 3 - Mad Baron of Mongolia Tale of a bizzare heirloom, a Teutonic, Occult and Gothic pretension; Tale of His Excellency Chiang Chun Major-General Baron Roman Fyodorovich von Ungern-Sternberg who was king of Mongolia for ten months in 1921 before he was arrested, tried and executed.
		You said nothing from the Slavs.’ ‘There is a book.’ ‘But the text is not on Internet?’ ‘No, but the book can be ordered through Amazon com.’ ‘That ought to be no problem since you get the bank of every buyer instantly and in every bank on the globe is a vassal of ours.
		But still, it is good that the ten thousand books of Latins and Slavs who endevour to explain the Nazi ideology do not connect to the illustrious pioneer work of the baron in Mongolia, nor the work of German Czars in Russia before: pogroms, ghettos, and all else.
	www.geocities.com /touxxaint1/book3.txt (18456 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Porno: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Porno, and Trainspotting, are the best books i have ever read, and are quite simply undescribable in terms of their literal brilliance and power to draw the reader into the text.
		Reading Porno is like reminiscing with old mates, namely the characters from Trainspotting, and will take hold of you, untill you finish the book, at which point you will want to re-read it!
		Porno for me was irvine welsh's best book,from start to finish it was what we have come to expect from welsh plenty of drugs,sex and violence.Trainspotting and glue were exceptional but porno confirms to me that irvine welsh is britains top fictional writer
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099422468 (822 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Eight years on from Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh pens the sequel: Porno
		Picking up their stories 10 years after Trainspotting finished, the new book will be set in the same milieu of low-life Leith "scumbags and bampams", although large parts of the area notorious for squats and crack dens have now been yuppiefied.
		Danny Boyle's film of the original book, in which Welsh had a cameo role as a drug dealer, was one of the outstanding British films of the last 20 years, however Welsh insists that he does not have one eye on a screen sequel.
		Welsh, who has a book set in Sudan coming out later this year and is also writing a love story set in Bangkok for the BBC, is having none of it.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,540572,00.html (1224 words)

	Porno ... at its artistically finest - Muse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The mahogany IKEA and college student "I-found-this-at-Goodwill!" tables are captains, scanning the photography books for the strongest players.
		Such is the conundrum that the book presents.
		Strategically placed articles by famed authors and playwrights attempt to affect the degree of respect one allots the book, the stars and the industry.
	www.dailyfreepress.com /news/2005/09/29/Muse/Porno.At.Its.Artistically.Finest-1003323.shtml (336 words)

	Amazon.com: Porno: Books: Irvine Welsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The book is a high energy romp through a segment of the pornography business and Welsh keeps ratcheting up the tension as time goes on and the book approaches it's climax.
		This is one metaphor for the change in the book- gone is the heroin-addled pathos of "Trainspotting", "Porno" embraces a sillier, stranger tones with dollops of surreal humor and the same working-class Scottish dialect Welsh fans have come to know and love.
		All in all, "Porno" is about the friendship of that same old group of losers, propelling themselves with loving longing to the day that it would all go wrong, and ranting, raping and raving in the midst of the sick pleasure of it all.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393324508?v=glance (2115 words)

	Mimosa 27, pages 38-40. "With Fists Full of Fantasy" by Earl Kemp
		There were porno mills by the dozens all over the place in those halcyon times, pouring out material for various porno factories.
		There were porno mills being operated by at least three of the editors working for me that were being fronted by others.
		While I'm on the subject of porno mills and pornography writers pretending to be science fiction writers, I should give you a glimpse into another side of the picture, one that you might not have ever had reason to think of.
	www.jophan.org /mimosa/m27/kemp.htm (1960 words)

	Harvard Book Review
		It looks like a book that fad-crazed seventh graders will gossip about during their lunch periods, with a cover bearing bright pink text and an image of a girl’s legs dressed in a plaid school uniform and combat boots.
		By the second page of the story “The Porno Girl,” for example, Wexler’s protagonist has already declared outright the lure the sex shop has for her: “It wasn’t the sex I was after (this I know you won’t believe), the floodlit vulgarity of naked wet flesh, the prodigious moans, the expulsion of fluid.
		What her book is, in the end, is an engaging but unaffecting read that effectively locates contradictions in women’s lives but fails to lend any power to these revelations.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~hbr/issues/summer03/articles/wexler.shtml (1057 words)

	Amazon.ca: Porno: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Porno is a sequel to Trainspotting, and builds on the success of that caustic and very funny novel by taking some of the characters through some radical new catastrophes.
		One is again captivated by the Scottish slang, and although Welsh refuses to comply with even the most rudimentary rules of punctuation and formatting, one begins to read his words as if you were listening to improvisational jazz.
		Another book I need to recommend -- very much on my mind since I purchased a "used" copy off Amazon is "The Losers' Club: Complete Restored Edition" by Richard Perez, an exceptional, highly entertaining, somewhat subversive little novel I can't stop thinking about.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393324508 (1018 words)

	Scarlet Letters: The Princesses of Porno Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Comic book shops are generally bastions of acne-infused boys and their festering hormones.
		Navigating the typical comic book store, complete with trolls, trivia fiends, teenage boys, and two-dimensional gigantic tits, is intimidating for those lacking an X chromosome.
		Crumb did take the erotic comic book genre into new avenues; he showed that porno comics didn't have to be simply satirical pop culture pap but could be a venue for social and political deconstruction.
	www.scarletletters.com /current/091602_nf_kms.shtml (1870 words)

	Publisher Drops Book on Nazi Porno \| Culture & Lifestyle \| Deutsche Welle \| 05.02.2004
		Any book that attempts to shed light on the little-known Nazi porn industry in the early 1940s is not likely to arrive in bookstores without a hitch.
		Kunkel is reportedly devastated by the cancellation of a book he spent three years researching and writing.
		Fest, who recently cancelled a book called "I too, had to kill" by an Israeli secret service agent, in a letter referred to the fact that Kunkel's work and subject matter could reap a hefty amount of criticism.
	www.dw-world.de /english/0,3367,1441_A_1104788_1_A,00.html (720 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Porno" by Irvine Welsh
		In its middle register, "Porno" is an expertly executed ensemble farce about the return of Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson to his hometown of Edinburgh -- specifically the working-class neighborhood of Leith, where he takes over his aunt's pub and sets several schemes in motion at once.
		He's the only really decent character in the book: as Mark puts it, a "strangely vulnerable, but good-hearted man; but he's been so fucked up for so long it's like the essence of him is harder to find now, outside of the drugs...
		In the lower register of "Porno" there's Frank, of course, but also a scene in which one of Leith's worst lowlifes abuses a destitute, sodden woman he picks up in a pub.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2002/10/10/welsh (939 words)

	Green Metropolis - Book details
		In the world of Porno, however, nothing is straightforward, as Sick Boy and Renton find out that they have unresolved issues to address, concerning the increasingly unhinged Frank Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, and, most of all, with each other.
		Porno is a novel about the Trainspotting crew ten years further down the line: still scheming, still scamming, still trying to fight for the first-class seats as the locomotive careers at high speed towards the buffers.
		Cue the introduction of Nicola Fuller-Smith, the book's very own Sick Girl and object of his desire, as well as the reintroduction of Renton, the increasingly unhinged Begbie and a still drug-addled Spud.
	www.greenmetropolis.com /productdetails.asp?prod=71275 (349 words)

	July 2002 Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		So I goes, I sez, all in all it was a pretty good book and a good social commentary on deese loser Eurotrash characters.
		Porno is a book that starts slow and builds with interest.
		This fookin' book was a pain in da arse to read and unfortunately was more work than pleasure.
	condor.depaul.edu /~rstuba/july2003review.html (467 words)

	Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh - The Book Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To me, it fell under the category of an 'important' book, a hard, honest look at a ghetto culture that steps out of the inevitable race issues that cloud an American tale of the same.
		One of the pleasures of the book is the contrast between these two psychopaths, each adapted to his own environment.
		The thing that's interesting about Hannibal as a character (though I think Harris fucked the dog with the ending of the last book), is his motive is so different from a typical serial killer.
	www.thebookforum.com /forums/showthread.php?t=5819 (1276 words)

	PORNO by IRVINE WELSH from Pickabook Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This book tells the dramatic tales of their encounters, discoveries and many tribulations.
		The seventh book in the "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series.
		This book includes an encounter with a cobra, a sinister flmail plot, a rather tight-fitting pair of blue shoes, the bush tea, and Botswana skies.
	www.pickabook.co.uk /cgi/bkdetail.php?isbn=1856866769 (156 words)

	pornobook082097 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I shouldn't have been surprised to hear him conclude that a book about women and sex would have to be trashy.
		A phone-sex operator interviewed for the book, for instance, said she can usually tell within the first minute of a conversation which porn formula will take a male caller to climax.
		My mother, a widow in her 60s, perked up and said, "Tell them about your porno book!" While the gasps subsided, I gave my little speech about how sexual fantasy, although often quite explicit, is much more complex and personal than pornography.
	www.wweek.com /html/pornobook082097.html (1059 words)

	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Welsh is currently touring the country with "Porno." He appears tonight at the Beverly Hills Library, courtesy of Book Soup at 7 p.m.
		Although the film version of "Trainspotting"; was a box-office success and received high critical acclaim, Welsh found the hardest part about starting "Porno" was shaking the imagery he got from the movie.
		Welsh is notorious for dropping pop-culture references in his books.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/printable.asp?id=20951&date=10/7/2002 (619 words)

	Interview with Dennis Cooper
		The books give them all a chance to speak, pick their minds, do what they want to do.
		Just like "Dennis" in the book is looking for someone to help him kill someone, the writer is looking for readers who feel the same way he does about violence.
		When it wasn't, I invented porno to go with my sex, because while you're doing your limited little things with your body, there's all this stuff going on in your head about what could be happening.
	www.altx.com /int2/dennis.cooper.html (2996 words)

	appetites082097 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Her breezy novel is a bit of a trick--it's a book within a book within a book (I think)--but a fun romp.
		Though the fantasies they share are provocative, the book is at its most erotic when they feed each other.
		Unlike Jaivin's book, in which the end is as fresh as the first bite, J. comes to a predictable man-centered conclusion.
	www.wweek.com /html/appetites082097.html (1092 words)

	slacktivist: Left Behind: Pretrib Porno
		Another book that blends religious concepts and fantasy well is Walter Wangerin, Jr.'s "The Book of the Dun Cow"; its sequel, "The Book of Sorrows," is rather bleak and depressing, though -- deliberately so, not bleak and depressing in the sense of the Left Behind books.
		These books are basic conservative blah blah bemoaning the liberalization of culture, how women are degraded by getting all these gosh darn rights, and how the fundamentalists are the only ones who see things clearly.
		Oh, and I can't remember which book it is that reveals the shocking truth that the oh-so-virile, smart, and handsome thirty-something Buck Cameron (world-traveled prize-winning journalist) is a virgin when he marries the barely legal daughter of Rayford Steele (herself, of course, chaste despite being a rebellious co-ed).
	slacktivist.typepad.com /slacktivist/2003/10/left_behind_pre.html (7030 words)

	Robert Rosen
		I didn't realize at the time that the reason there were all these sudden openings in porno was because phone sex had taken off and there was this huge influx of money into the porno biz.
		If you used the word 'porno,' an editor would pull you aside and inform you that you were violating the rules.
		All these people are making their living putting together porno magazines, be it in the accounting department or circulation department or the art department or editorial department.
	www.lukeisback.com /stars/stars/robert_rosen.htm (3701 words)

	Amazon.com: Trainspotting: Books: Irvine Welsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The book "Trainspotting" is comprised of a series of short stories previously published independently in various periodicals over a stretch of time...the stories deal with the same core of characters, but that is really all that ties them together.
		An added challenge (and a fair extent of the book's charm) is that the book's dialogue and first-person narrative are written in the author's native Edinburgh dialect, making the book perhaps more accessible to Robert Burns scholars than the average non-Scots English speaker.
		Resources on this book are extensive, and it is widely held to be one of the most popular literary books of this centuary.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393314804?v=glance (1614 words)

	Porno (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the world of Porno, however, even the cons are conned.
		Porno is a novel about the Trainspotting crew ten years further down the line: still scheming, still scamming, still fighting for the first-class seats as the train careens at high velocity with derailment looming around the next corner.
		Irvine Welsh is the author of the best-selling Trainspotting, as well as Glue, The Acid House, Marabou Stork Nightmares, Ecstasy, and Filth.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring03/032450.htm (260 words)

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