num_pages: 352
description: The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s hit film'Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.
language: English
title: Trainspotting
titlecomplete: Trainspotting
characters: Simon Williamson, Mark Renton
genres: Classics, British Literature, Novels, Scotland, Thriller, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 164473
places: Edinburgh, Scotland, Scotland, London, England
series: Mark Renton
publisher: Vintage Books