[TOMT] Book written in East London slang [book]

It involved a guy who'd just gotten out of prison. He had a girlfriend who was an air-stewardess or something, and she wouldn't sleep with him till he got STD-tested. He knew people who would car-jack and someone or the other hits somebody else with a pipe in a post office.

The whole book is written in an odd way, as if intending to say that the narrator spoke in some lower-class patois.

Posted Oct 19, 2009, 6:20 AM UTC

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NickVenture•

Porno? As in the sequel to Trainspotting?

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FireDemonOP•

Interesting, thanks, but after reading the first few pages it doesn't seem to be the one I wanted.

If it helps, I had a paperback version of the book I'm searching for and the cover was brown (or maybe maroon).

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Layer Cake?

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FireDemonOP•

Read a few pages of that on the net. It isn't the same. In this book, the guy is just out of prison, and he's not a criminal any more.

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TheElitistCoup•
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FireDemonOP•

Nope, haven't read that one yet. Have it on my desk, though.

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Zooph•

Please make sure it's the one with 21 chapters.

Kubrick wussed out and the movie omitted the last chapter; there are still copys out there with only 20.

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FireDemonOP•

Ah ha, victory to me then. I have the Penguin Books version with 21.

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