Iain Banks
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Particularize Out Of Books Walking on Glass
| Title | : | Walking on Glass |
| Author | : | Iain Banks |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 341 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1992 by Abacus (Little,Brown) (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Contemporary |
Description In Pursuance Of Books Walking on Glass
Graham Park is in love. But Sara ffitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout 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 all paradoxical riddles will release him. But he must find an answer before he knows the question. Park, Grout, Quiss - no trio could be further apart. But their separate courses are set for collision.Itemize Books Supposing Walking on Glass
| Original Title: | Walking on Glass |
| ISBN: | 0349101787 (ISBN13: 9780349101781) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/walking-on-glass/ |
| Characters: | Graham Park, Sara ffitch, Steven Grout |
Rating Out Of Books Walking on Glass
Ratings: 3.7 From 5549 Users | 210 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books Walking on Glass
(2.5 stars) This was the first Iain (M.) Banks that I read, on the recommendation of some rave reviews of his other books. Admittedly, I picked this particular one because the book was physically small enough to fit in my carry-on.The first quarter of the book was promising, setting up several disparate and individually interesting threads. I was looking forward to seeing how they ended up being woven together. But then, the remainder of the book more or less repeated the first segment of each2.5 stars - Metaphorosis ReviewsA man on his way to meet his lover, a man who believes himself to be a Warrior exiled to a mundane world, and two adversaries playing tabletop games in a surreal castle - all tied together in a complex literary novel.I've read most of Iain Banks' SFF novels - complex, sophisticated, and intriguing. I previously read his literary novel A Song of Stone, and liked but wasn't overwhelmed by it. Still, his contemporary fiction was on sale, so I bought a number of books
an early novel by Iain Banksshort plot description: we follow three seemingly unrelated stories. Graham Park is head-over-heels in love but the object of his affections keeps him at arms length. Steven Grout is suffering from paranoid delusions and thinks he is an alien participant of a galactic war exiled to and kept on Earth by "Them". Quiss and Ajayi were on opposing sides in the "Therapeutic Wars" but are exiled to a castle for doing something wrong. They can only escape when they find the
I am a big fan of Iain Banks' work and this book, as usual, told a beautifully interwoven tale. However, this uses the device of telling three separate stories, featuring different sets of characters, slowly linking them together. As I often find with this approach, there is, perhaps inevitably, one story strand that appeals less than the others and I found myself skimming through these sections in my enthusiasm to get back to my preferred tales. It does not help that in this instance there are
I really wanted to like this book, as I love Iain Banks, but I was left feeling a bit nonplussed at the end. I liked the three-strand story, and the depiction of the characters within them were great - Grout's paranoid mental state, Graham's blinkered love (the surprise conclusion of this is great too), and Quiss and Ajaya's bleak situation. The bizzare other world was also wonderfully created and I could really visualize the castle and its inhabitants. But, I just didn't get it. Perhaps it
This one's going to have me thinking for a while...Banks' 'Walking on Glass' is the telling of three stories, the main theme of which seems to be with how the easiest of circumstances can make you... well, mad.I know there are a lot of different takes on this book, but to me the characters of Graham, Grout and Quiss seem to represent different periods of time in a person's life, and with them the key themes of love, employment and age which, when the odds are against them, leave the respective
Part science fiction or all in your head? All I know is I really liked it.While some connections in the three storylines may be quite obvious, others leave it up to your own inventiveness far more. The book is well-executed and has plot twists and open questions enough to see past the obvious plot devices.(view spoiler)[ Where on one hand I'd like to think Quiss and his partner are the two old people playing games in Grout's hospital, this appears to be too simple an assumption, for how then can
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