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 Walking on Glass - Iain Banks
 Walking on Glass - Iain Banks ... be further apart, but their separate courses are set for collision.Newest Review: ... their separate courses are set for collision…" I picked this book up at a second hand book sale at my university. ... more ... I chose it as one of my classmates read "The Wasp Factory" at A-level and from what he told us about it sounded like I'd like Iain Bank's style of writing. As can be gathered from the above blurb, there are 3 subplots that promise to eventually all join together. Without giving too much away, as I hate it when that happens to me, I can say that the Graham Park and the Steven Grant plot are set in present day London, whereas the Quiss plot is set in a castle with two names, seemingly in the middl...more |
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Walking on Glass - Iain Banks: Bank's Best Book? (627 words)
by - written on 17/07/01 (Very useful, 281 readings)
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This was the first Iain Banks book I read and, consequently, I didn't know what to expect. Boy did I get a surprise. The book is very difficult to place into one genre so I think I'll just say that I'd classify it as general fiction/sci-fi novel. The blurb on the back of the book goes something like this: "Graham Park is in love. But Sara Ffitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grant is paranoid – and with justice. He knows that They are out to get him. They are. Quiss, insecure in his fabulous if ramshackle castle, is forced to play interminable impossible games. The solution to the oldest of ... Read the complete review
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