What I will say is that they were making choices that many more people are having to make now. Well, to be honest, I don’t think about them at all unless I’m writing about them. Renton, Begbie and the crew obviously still mean a lot to you. You’ve since written four novels with those same characters, including this year ’s Dead Men’s Trousers, and there have been two films: Danny Boyle’s much-lauded Trainspotting (1996) and his reboot, T2 Trainspotting (2017). It’s strange, but it has taken on such a life of its own that when I see it on a shelf in a bookshop, it almost feels like someone else wrote it. Because of the subject matter, which involved hard drugs, I thought it would become a cult book but not generation-defining, which is what other people have called it since. The initial buzz it generated was among a certain section of the London cultural cognoscenti, the ex-punk crowd. Did you have any idea when you were writing it that it would become such a phenomenon, culturally and commercially?
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