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	Trainspotting (novel) at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.csres.utexas.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The novel is split up into seven sections: the first six contain multiple chapters of varying length and differing focus.
		The novel ends rather ambiguously with Renton betraying his friends and heading for Amsterdam with money they had all acquired from a drug deal.
		The novel heavily references bands that influenced Welsh's writing, including David Bowie, Joy Division, the Pogues, The Smiths and especially Iggy Pop, whom all the characters idolize.
	experts.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /e/t/tr/Trainspotting_(novel).htm (2043 words)

	Of Clockwork Apples and Oranges: Burgess and Kubrick: brentonpriestley.com
		In a career of adapting novels into films and substantially altering them, it is remarkable just how closely the film sticks to the novel[8] – not only in terms of narrative, as Kubrick points out here, but also in characterisation, structure, dialogue, and, crucially, style.
		The effect in both novel and film is that the audience quickly pieces the language together and builds up the vocabulary in their minds.
		Were the scenes of violence in the novel to be described in a flat, dispassionate style, the equivalent of removing the music, then Alex’s ‘great action ballet’ becomes one thug brutally slashing at the face of another.
	www.brentonpriestley.com /writing/clockwork_orange.htm (3611 words)

	The Functions of Non-Standard Dialect in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Trainspotting this means that we (the readers) are not meant to think of Spud, for example, as a bad or morally inferior person because he cannot communicate in standard dialect.
		Trainspotting, it is hard to determine which words are spelled in Standard Scots (with reference here to the Scots Dialect Dictionary) and which are spelled by the author in a manner that merely implies non-standard pronunciation, as few words in the sections narrated in dialect are spelled according to standard-dialect norms.
		Trainspotting, perhaps Welsh is trying to bring attention to the fact that, not only does a narrator not have to use standard dialect, but the narrator does not have to represent an unbiased opinion either.
	hem.passagen.se /undra/writing/nf2.htm (6534 words)

	Welsh, Irvine Criticism and Essays
		Trainspotting achieved a wide measure of critical and financial success and was adapted into a popular film in 1995.
		Trainspotting is comprised of a loosely connected set of episodes portraying the lives of Scottish heroin junkies and aimless drifters.
		The novel Filth (1998) presents the story of a misogynistic, racist, alcoholic Edinburgh police detective, Robertson, who is investigating the murder of the son of an African diplomat.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/welsh-irvine (969 words)

	DEEP FOCUS: Trainspotting
		In the very first shot of Trainspotting, a good-looking Scot with close-cropped hair and his gawkier sidekick are running like hell through the streets of Edinburgh, a pair of security guards in close pursuit and Iggy Pop's percussive "Lust For Life" pumping on the soundtrack.
		Trainspotting's stylish gloss is hardly realistic, and its portrayal of addiction is nearly as glamorous as the film's detractors may have you believe—but it's not a glamour without consequences.
		Trainspotting helps you understand the lure of the heroin culture by introducing a gang of addicts who are affable and charming and addicted to a rush that's described as superior to a thousand grade-A orgasms.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/trainspo.html (810 words)

	Irvine Welsh
		His first novel, Trainspotting (1993), a flly comic portrait of a group of young heroin users living in Edinburgh in the 1980s, was adapted as a film directed by Danny Boyle, starring Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle, in 1996.
		It is one of the rare, oblique references to ‘trainspotting’ in a novel whose title is said to revolve around the joke (Welsh likes his ‘in’ jokes) that Leith has not had a rail link for decades.
		If ‘trainspotting’ on one level appears to be an allusion to the social division between Leith and commercial Edinburgh (Welsh is a regular critic of the Edinburgh Festival on these grounds), then his novels are free from a nostalgic or sentimental vision of working-class Scotland.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth120 (1295 words)

	Trainspotting
		Yet the perversely irresistible "Trainspotting" is itself geared to the tourist trade, since it keeps a safely voyeuristic distance from the real dangers that go with its subject matter.
		At the heart of the "Trainspotting" phenomenon is a clever dissonance: the film's characters may be stoned outlaws, but its directorial style is gleeful in slick, conventional ways.
		As the cheerfully outrageous "Trainspotting" unfolds, loosely adapted from the dialect-heavy novel by Irvine Welsh, it introduces a tart and unforgettable crew of miscreants.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/trainspotting.html (963 words)

	Trainspotting . Tucson Weekly . 08-01-96
		Trainspotting, the activity, is a pointless hobby in which mainly British males watch trains go through stations and log their serial numbers.
		To quote Irvine Welsh, the author of the novel on which the film is based: "Trainspotting is a futile occupation, as is drug taking." And, befitting a movie with meaningless futility as its central theme, Trainspotting has no proper plot to speak of.
		Trainspotting has already become the second-highest grossing British film of all time in the UK (after Four Weddings and a Funeral), and it's probably its unrelenting hipness that best accounts for its success.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/tw/t/trainspotting_f.html (705 words)

	Eight years on from Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh pens the sequel: Porno \| News \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Trainspotting, Welsh's first novel, became an instant sensation when it was published in 1993, even though it was written in working-class Edinburgh dialect so dense that well-heeled New Towners had difficulty understanding it.
		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.
		Trainspotting's most famous scene takes place on the first day of the jamboree, when Renton dredges through his own excrement in a bookie's toilet, searching for the opium suppositories he has inadvertently evacuated.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,540572,00.html (1262 words)

	Trainspotting
		Trainspotting has its creative moments and sometimes it can be funny, but the viewer should be prepared for a downbeat experience and should expect to find himself some places he would never go of his own accord.
		Trainspotting is cranked up to eleven, and is consequently getting plenty of attention, but it ain't signifyin' much, and would have been more entertaining at half the volume.
		Trainspotting is a singular sensation, a visionary knockout spiked with insight, wild invention and outrageous wit.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/trainspotting (1114 words)

	Amazon.com: Trainspotting: DVD: Ewan McGregor,Ewen Bremner,Jonny Lee Miller,Kevin McKidd,Robert Carlyle,Kelly ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Adapted by John Hodge from the acclaimed novel by Irving Welsh, the film was a phenomenal hit in England, Scotland, and (to a lesser extent) the U.S. For all of its comedic vitality and invigorating filmmaking, the movie is no ode to heroin, nor is it a straight-laced cautionary tale.
		Trainspotting is just a very honest and well-made film about the nature of addiction, and it doesn't pull any punches when it is time to show the alternating pleasure and pain of substance abuse.
		So to me the title "Trainspotting" was a sardonic reminder of the monotonous, meaningless "normal" life that the guys were rebelling against and trying to escape from - unwisely, but desperately - in their drug usage.
	www.amazon.com /Trainspotting-Ewan-McGregor/dp/6304806442 (2363 words)

	Porno \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		A sequel to Welsh's debut novel Trainspotting (which, like A Clockwork Orange, was harrowing, fascinating, and so slang-heavy that it needed decoding as much as reading), Porno returns to Scottish scrabblers Mark Renton, Frank Begbie, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson, and Daniel "Spud" Murphy, roughly nine years later.
		As the novel's central antagonist, Sick Boy is pretty small-time: His misogyny, racism, monomania, hypocrisy, and chronic cocaine abuse are deplorable enough, but the way he predictably betrays his allies within moments of any success makes him into little more than a Saturday-morning supervillain.
		Which is regrettable and a bit disturbing: Of all Trainspotting's aggressively aggrieved losers, he seems to have come the farthest socially and emotionally, but the more potentially redemptive his story becomes, the further he retreats into the background.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/20694 (510 words)

	Anorak, a term of abuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Trainspotting was a common childhood pursuit of British children in the post-war period, it comes under that category of hobbies that involve collecting.
		It is possible to buy books listing the serial numbers of all the railway rolling stock in the country and then check off each one as it is seen.
		The subject of the book is heroin addiction which is a high risk high return activity - something diametrically opposed to trainspotting, which has no risk attached and no experiential gain to be made.
	www.geocities.com /athens/parthenon/6197/anorak.htm (257 words)

	Trainspotting (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh.
		It was longlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize (and was apparently rejected for the shortlist after offending the ‘feminist sensibilities’ of two of the judges (Purlock, 1996)) and received even wider attention once the film of the same name appeared in 1996, starring Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle.
		The novel heavily refers to bands that influenced Welsh's writing, including David Bowie, Joy Division, the Pogues, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, The Smiths, and especially Iggy Pop, whom all the characters idolize.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trainspotting_(novel) (2849 words)

	SALON: Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The most original, daring, thrilling movie to be released this year, "Trainspotting" is one of those occasional, astonishing triumphs of risk and imagination that gets you excited about what smart people, pushing themselves and the medium, can accomplish in the movies.
		The director, Danny Boyle, and the screenwriter, John Hodge, are the team that made last year's "Shallow Grave," a picture that just about defined the dead end that affectless hipness and affectless brutality have brought indie cinema to.
		It does, because Boyle, Hodge and their actors are capturing a milieu and a way of life that's never made it to the screen before; they set the movies on their ear with the excitement and brash confidence that young artists have always assumed to announce their arrival.
	www.salon.com /weekly/movies2960715.html (1423 words)

	Irvine Welsh: The Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His first novel, Trainspotting, published in Britain in 1993, was shortlisted for the distinguished Booker Prize, and achieved stunning popularity and critical attention.
		This novel, which lured readers into the mind of a comatose soccer thug and gang rapist, was called "a harrowing, hard-core and brilliant realistic novel of lower-class British society" by Stephen Stark in The Washington Post.
		Trainspotting was made into a box office smash the same year and established Welsh as "the voice of a generation" (Jenifer Berman, Bomb) and "the hottest and probably the best of a new, distinct, and talented generation of writers currently emerging in Britain" (James Lasdun, The Village Voice).
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/featured/irvinewelsh/man.htm (344 words)

	Trainspotting
		The imagery that director Danny Boyle uses to convey the sense of dread and hopelessness surrounding Renton's prolonged heroin abuse is amazingly realistic.
		Trainspotting was based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, who has a bit part in the film as a drug connection.
		Though the novel is much denser and certainly more detailed than the film, the script captures the essence of the book.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/Trainspotting.htm (871 words)

	Grumpy Old Bookman: Trainspotting
		First published in 1993, the novel was both a literary success (longlisted for the Booker) and a popular hit.
		The first is that, as with the novel, the language is so Scottish as to be more or less incomprehensible unless you're used to it.
		Not only would I say that Trainspotting is the same old dreary tale of all drug addicts that I'd heard a thousand times before this novel; the accents do not even work for people who actually come from the area where the story is set.
	grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com /2006/05/trainspotting.html (2571 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Trainspotting: Books: Irvine Welsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Trainspotting" is a loosely knotted string of jagged, dislocated tales that lay bare the hearts of darkness of the junkies, wide-boys and psychos who ride in the down escalator of opportunity in the nation's capital.
		As a novel, it is rife with profanity, strewn with graphic drug use, and littered with strong violence and sex.
		Welsh's novel follows the activity of a group of junkies who call Edinburgh their home.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Trainspotting-Irvine-Welsh/dp/0099465892 (1667 words)

	Trainspotting (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives.
		Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (A Shallow Grave).
		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/spring96/031480.htm (310 words)

	Edinburgh Guide Theatre review - Trainspotting - Mark Groucher Ltd
		The stage adaptation of Irvine Welsh`s debut cult novel, Trainspotting was a smash hit when it toured the UK, Australia, US and Canada, ten years ago.
		The original novel is a collection of loosely related short stories, set around the mid 1980s during the first phase of the HIV epidemic, and explores the broader social conditions of Thatcher’s Britain.
		Trainspotting — cult novel, cult film, cult play — attracted a packed house at the King’s Theatre on the first night, with, rather inspiringly, dozens of chattering youngsters who may never have been to a theatre before.
	www.edinburghguide.com /aande/theatre/reviews_06/t/trainspotting_markgroucher.shtml (782 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Irvine Welsh & Trainspotting
		IT COMES from the pen of Irvine Welsh, has already been described as an "all-female Trainspotting" and, just like the hit film, is set in Leith.
		A NEW film from the author Irvine Welsh described as the "all-female Trainspotting" is being shot...
		TRAINSPOTTING author Irvine Welsh has written a gritty new all-girl TV series based on his famous...
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=523&id=634682004 (474 words)

	Introduction - LiteraryTranslation.com
		Trainspotting is one of the most significant cultural exports that Britain has produced over the past twenty years.
		The novel has been translated into numerous languages, the film is an international success, the play has toured the world and the sound track was an immediate success.
		This exploration of the translation of Trainspotting is based upon the play which was adapted from Irvine Welsh's novel by Harry Gibson.
	www.literarytranslation.com /workshops/trainspotting (193 words)

	Trainspotting ----- Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is more than a decade since Irvine Welsh's debut novel, about a gang of young men who take heroin to escape the banality of modern life, enthralled a generation of disaffected youth.
		Now the Scottish writer, still best known for the seminal work Trainspotting, has turned his attention to the women involved in the drug and club scene of the 1990s, who hovered in the margins of his first novel.
		Shirley Henderson plays Kelly, a minor character in Trainspotting, now a woman battling with her demons and upsetting all around her.
	trainspotting.fan-sites.org (1024 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Trainspotting
		Trainspotting novel reviewer Robert Morace argues that Renton’s voice-over is intended as a method to replace the book’s internal monologue with Renton as the central character
		Trainspotting proceeds forward along with kineticism, full of energy and lust for its life, utilizing a customized playlist of sounds: songs which are played together, sounds played against each other, and aural surrealisms integrated as part of a hyper-realist sound scheme.
		Trainspotting’s crucial musical inclusion resulted from the brilliance of editor Masahiro Hirakubo who mixed, cut and synchronized the movie’s sound to maximize its effect and correlation with the narrative events.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /44/train.htm (6174 words)

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