Trainspotting
The book has a number of scenes that didn't make the movie. A notable one was where Kelly the waitress gets her revenge by soaking her used Tampon in a customers soup. The other was where she served a profiterole where the sauce was made with human excrement. In true Irvine Welsh style the scenes are marvellously descriptive and leave you with a vivid mental image. Good book if you can get to grips with the dialect it's written in.
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 16:27, 4 replies)

Not food related
but the scene where Renton(?) has it away with his brother's pregnant wife is appalling and hilarious in equal measure.

Very good book, and it only really takes a couple of chapters to get to grips with the dialect.
( Moey, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 16:31, closed)

People keep telling me that you get used to the dialect
but I just don't know if I could. I have picked it up in bookshops several times and peeked into it and it usually takes me about three syllables to decide I just can't face it.
(clumsyeloquence is a girl, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 20:22, closed)

meh
it's been on my shelf for a while but i like to dip in and out of books which you can't really do with this. the dialect and accent, coupled with having to work out who's narrating at any particular point, put me off
(CannedLaughter, Mon 22 Sep 2008, 23:37, closed)

Porno
The sequel to Trainspotting is much better (and easier to read)
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 16:13, closed)