Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Welsh is the bard of the new century Scots working class consciousness.

All I can say is that the main characters of 'Trainspotting': Rents, Spud, Sick boy and the Beggarman have never left me since reading the novel back in the 90's. `Trainspotting' featuring the exploits of these now famous four, put working class Edinburgh on the map and is pure catnip to its readers or awesome movie version fans. The local dialect/vocabulary, characters and storyline is as distinctive and at time challenging as Burgesses `Clockwork Orange'. Welsh the bard of the new century Scots working class consciousness. A must read unless you're easily offended, too old or Tory ie: English conservative.