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If you follow the series of Irvine Welsh novels about the seedy Scottish underworld, then Porno is a necessary chapter as part of Welsh's evolution into a more conventional author (despite the graphic nature of the plot--alluded to in the very title). But if you just read the groundbreaking and experimental Trainspotting 1, then this sequel will feel like an unnecessary distant second.

It helps to read Glue first, and it also helps to read Blade Artist and Dead Men's Trousers later. It's a lot of fun to revisit these characters and see what Renton and Sick Boy have been up to. Welsh has been a very prolific writer over the years, there's even a prequel in the series, so this book holds up pretty well as part of the broad canon of the Welsh-verse.

It's more plot-based, with a specific scam of making a movie being what brings Sick Boy and Rents back together. Franco is the villain, and poor Spud is there too. There's a new main character as well, Nikki the porn star. The ending is satisfying, and it all circles back well to the big betrayal where Trainspotting concluded so many years ago...

Note: Trainspotting 2 the movie was barely an adaptation of this. That film was probably too reverential as a legacy sequel, coasting on nostalgia of the legendary original. The novel has a completely different story and is a more interesting in my view. Just know that either way, living up to anything as good as Trainspotting is basically impossible.