#you cannot tell me a bunch of them thought they fucked in Amsterdam

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I have never had many thoughts about this beyond the fact that I do think RoyJamie will get married. I usually get caught up thinking about their domestic life post marriage.

So many wonderful fics on Ao3 of RJ weddings and I love them all. Always did assume they will marry in London and maybe honeymoon in the Maldives or go to Amsterdam. But it just struck me: what if they get married in Amsterdam? They’re both fuck you rich and would have no qualms about dragging their friends and family to Amsterdam to get married. It’ll be in the off season anyways.

I don’t know Amsterdam enough to know where they’ll marry but I think they’ll make sure the venue is close enough that they can go visit “their” windmill. Staring up at their windmill in the dead of the night, wearing their wedding suit. The party is raging on elsewhere but they’re newlyweds and if they want to sneak out of their reception to go see a windmill—in the city where their relationship changed forever, even if they didn’t know it at the time—they absolutely fucking will.

“We went to see a windmill!”, Jamie will say the next day when Sam asks him where he and Roy went off to. All the boys assume he means they went to get laid just like they did when Jamie said it all those years ago in the bus.

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2. Irvine Welsh. Trainspotting

Sup my dudes! This book has been just chillin in my drawer for quite a long time, but i finally got the free time to read it. I literally just finished reading the book a moment ago, so my emotions are still pretty fresh and raw. Let’s get going!!

(warning - spoilers. obviously.)

Well wouldn’t you just look at that, this is another book, that has one hell of a famous movie adaptation. Actually, that’s the reason why I chose to read it - I saw the movie a year or so ago, and it legit became one of my favorite movies ever. If you are not a book fan, or the length of the book scares you (I mean, dude, this one was thick), i absolutely recommend the movie. Even if you love books or whatever, just watch the movie at some point. The actors are incredibly well chosen, the soundtrack is veeeery good, and the movie is much more systematic than the book?? I don’t even know how to explain it. It’s just so much easier to watch! Let me get into the actual review, because I’m actually starting to ramble nonsense. cool cool.

So i can’t actually explain the storyline, which is fucking lame. But believe me, if you would read the book, you would get me right now. It’s basically made up from a bunch of little stories, that are told from different character perspectives, so it’s impossible to re-tell all of them. But the book just basically revolves around four dudes, three of which are addicted to heroin. The fourth dude isn’t an addict, he just has a huge aggression problem, like, he will actually stab you if you look at him the wrong way. The heroin addicts are Mark Renton (Rent Boy), Simon (Sick Boy) and Spud, and the mentally insane dude is called Begbie. There is also Tommy, Diane, Lizzy and Gail, but they’re not that important to the story. Soooooo the main stuff is about the four dudes, and their life with drugs. Around half of the book is about them trying to get off of heroin, how hard it is and things like that. The other half has a lot of stories from the characters’ past and just different events in their life. Although it isn’t obviously stated, I believe the main character is Renton, because most of the stories are from his perspective. I think i could actually write down the ending, because it was probably the most consistent part of the whole book. So the four guys rob a home or a shop or something like that, make a deal in London with a black market dealer, and they get themselves sixteen thousand pounds. they decide to share all of it, because they all participated in the deal. Before returning to Scotland, they decide to sleep the night in one of the hotels. Just before the morning, Renton wakes up, takes all of the money and runs away from all of his so called “friends”, starting a new life in Amsterdam. 

First things first, the book is so. difficult. to. read. It’s hard to set a consistent timeline in your head, because it’s just a bunch of random stories, told by different people. The last fact also makes it a hard read - it’s told by different people, but it is not said who exactly is the person, telling this exact story. Also, I didn’t mention this in the second paragraph, but the action is happening in Scotland. The whole slang and the mentioned culture seemed so unfamiliar, I couldn’t get the gist of what the conversational topics were half of the time. 

And the swear words. oooooooh my looooord. If you are in any way shape or form sensitive to swear words, do not read the book or watch the movie!! There are so many of them!!! Other triggers include: drug use, total depreciation of women, aggression, derealisation, death, HIV, AIDS, abortion, and so much more that i just cannot remember right now. You really need to set yourself up for some hard stuff if you’re willing to read or watch “Trainspotting”.

This book actually stood out from any other book about drugs. All of the other books obviously agitate the reader against drug use, they show how much the protagonist degrades while using drugs. They never truly delve into why the character started using drugs and how it feels while they’re using them. In “Trainspotting”, Renton actually explains that he knows how bad drugs are, but he gives his logical explanation as to why he still does them. It’s not like the book agitates drug use, but it doesn’t bash it either, and i love it for that.

I thought quite long about the idea of the book, what it represents, etc. It might be that the author had no idea at all, but I still chose to try and find deeper meaning behind it. I think, that “Trainspotting” is about how drugs make people lose their values and become apathetic and senseless. I thought about this instantly after i finished reading the ending, because Renton was friends with Sick Boy from childhood, they spent so much time together, and yet he didn’t feel one bit bad about stealing the money. Or when the four guys were traveling on a train, and Spud and Renton were going through the withdrawal of heroin, and Renton had it on him, and he didn’t offer it to Spud - he just shot all of it up into himself. There was this one sentence that stuck with me (obviously I’m translating this from Lithuanian so bear with me) - “He feels like something has to be done. So, reject Spud. But in similar business, especially in business like this, compassion is nonexistent.”. 

To conclude this mess, I’d like to say, that it’s a very difficult book in every way possible. If I had to chose between the book or it’s adaptation, I’d go with the adaptation, because it’s so much easier to follow. Nonetheless, the book is truly a masterpiece and deserves to be read by everybody (i feel like I’ll say this about every book lol).

7/10

I hope you enjoyed your stay in the introvert book club!