The Crow Road - Iain Banks Reviews

If you've ever read 'The Wasp Factory' or 'Complicity', you may be under the misguided impression that Iain Banks's talent lies in the macabre and gory. Not your thing? Well, here I prescribe the perfect remedy; 'The Crow Road'. Despite being rooted in his usual style of social realism and gritty humanist themes, 'The Crow Road' is, as Banks ...  Read the complete review

‘ “…all your nonsenses and truths, your finery and squalid options, combine and coalesce, to one noise including laugh and whimper, scream and sigh, forever and forever repeating, in any tongue we care to choose, whatever lessened, separated message we want to hear. It all boils down to nothing, and where we have the means and ...  Read the complete review

"It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listenign to my uncle Hamish queitly snoring in harmony to bach's mass in B minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach." So begins the Crow Road - a brilliant book from Iain Banks that was also made into an ...  Read the complete review

The Crow Road is my favourite Iain Banks novel. For a long time, when I was reading his books, I told myself not to re-read them, because they'd never be as good, never have as much mystery to them the second time around, and I'd get bored. But there are so many little things to pick up on, like a good film, that I'll probably really ...  Read the complete review