TrainsPLOTting

Dave wrote:

> Can anyone briefly summarize what the book/movie "Trainspotting" is about?

It's about a group of kids who have lived in Edinburgh and grown up together 
and are in about their early 20s. It just deals with their characters and 
everyday lives - hard drugs and their consequences, sex, unemployment, crime, 
killing time. It's bleak, but credible and entertaining. There's not a great 
deal of plot, just a chronological sequence of events with an ending. The 
book may be a bit difficult to follow, because it's written in a Scottish 
accent, with many slang terms. Chapters are narrated "first person", by 
different main characters, which makes for interesting perspective shifts.The 
central character is called Mark Renton, nicknamed "Rents" or "Rentboy".

Cheers,
Mark T.