![]() ![]() The depiction of violence is chilling, graphic and disturbing. The writing is superb, it is macabre and gruesome with a narrator, Frank, who makes you glad that this is fiction and you have no chance of meeting them in real life. I can see why it would polarise readers so much. When it was published in 1984 it received both wide acclaim and condemnation. In a poll taken in The Independent it was voted by readers as one of the top 100 books of the twentieth century. Iain Banks was a Scottish author of both general and science fiction. It wasn’t even a big book, just 200 pages I’m surprised I even saw it. It was on a shelf, and not displayed prominently on one of the bargain tables, all that was there to draw my attention was the spine. I had never heard of it until it picked it up, and the only reason I did was because I had finished a book, and needed something to read for the train ride home from work. This book is fantastic! It is another one of those books, that I go on about, that I found by accident. ![]()
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