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Dead Men's Trousers
- Narrated by: Tam Dean Burn
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh, read by Tam Dean Burn.
Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He's then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he'd been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and - much to Mark's astonishment - doesn't seem interested in revenge.
Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry - so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn't really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this audiobook. Which one of them is wearing Dead Men's Trousers?
Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-11-2020
Well Worthy
Great to see the boys back together again, loved the start and how it takes off from the end of 'The Blade Master'. An unrealistic moment or two take away from the general theme (I don't want to blab) but otherwise great. Tam Dean Burn keeps us energised and awake for too long :)
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- Giulia
- 11-04-2018
A phenomenal romp with some old friends.
Starts with a bang. Gruesome and hilarious. I didn't want it to ever come to an end
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- Mr. G. Mckellar
- 31-05-2018
What a beautiful nostalgic ride
The narration was superb as usual (Tam Dean Burn) and Irvine Welsh continued to entertain and inspire me with the old Leith crew. Nothing short of superb Irvine, you are a master
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- Deb
- 15-05-2018
Fecking brilliant!
This story shows the philosophy and intelligence of the Scots. I’m broken and enlightened; if this tale doesn’t affect you then you’re lost.
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- Britpop
- 22-04-2018
Couldn’t stop listening
Another jaunt with the trainspotting team in devilishly divine territory. Couldn’t resist listening to this in huge binges. Grisly, gross, funny and at times improbable but it’s great to have an unexpected trip with the trainspotting folks once more.
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- Chris
- 24-04-2018
Great Conclusion
The narration was excellent.
The actual story - well, it's a damn sight better than the 'Blade Artist' but no as good as the original. but then that's to be expected, ey?
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- Anonymous User
- 21-01-2022
Awesome
So Well spoken - love the developed characters, the description of events was wildly vivid and the use of the vernacular was raw and braw.
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- Brian
- 06-07-2020
Superb
Laughed out loud many times throughout this book , think it’s my favourite of all the train spotting novels. Scene at Hibs v Rangers final is a masterpiece , that’s from a Gers fan too 👌
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- Alicia Gilmer
- 28-10-2020
excellence
Welsh at his finest tying up all the.loose ends from the previous books of this series. Hard to press pause on this one.
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- matt
- 13-12-2020
The goods
Irvine Welsh is a master story teller and his ability to make the most bizarre and twisted scenarios hilarious and believable is on full display with this book.
Welsh does not create characters with his writing, but real people with real flaws and emotions and consciousness.
This was the first audiobook for me and it took me a while to get used to the changing accents and delivery, especially as Trainspotting is a movie so the characters didn’t sound like I hear them when I read them in a proper book.
The reader was especially amazing with first person Spud and Begbie, and overall captured the essence of the essence of all the characters. I think any criticism of the performance is more about me than of them.
I laughed, I howled, I cried, and I was left with the sadness you get when an epic story full of tension is resolved.
Much thanks to both author for the story and reader for the delivery.
I enjoyed every second and word.
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