Iain Banks
Paperback | Pages: 341 pages Rating: 3.7 | 5549 Users | 210 Reviews
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| Title | : | Walking on Glass |
| Author | : | Iain Banks |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 341 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1992 by Abacus (Little,Brown) (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Contemporary |
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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.Details Books Conducive To 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 |
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Ratings: 3.7 From 5549 Users | 210 ReviewsArticle Appertaining To Books Walking on Glass
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 areA dark window into a world of abject failure. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. I love the structure of the three plots- it's all so dark and weird. In the end though, the twist in the Graham plot is very compelling (I won't spoil) is a bit too ambitious and not really feasible (incest, Slater). This book is absolutely saturated with obscure references and symbolism. It's great, but you gotta be switched on. I believe it needs to be read several times for all of the nutrients to be truly soaked
The characters are all of student age, all have different difficulties in life, mentally, and all live separate lives. The meeting of characters brings into play their inter reaction with, sometimes,surprising, consequences. The novel is building up to a bizarre and unexpected ending. Once absorbed, you have to reach the end as the outcome must be within your grasp. Mustn't it? This is Banks in the heads of young adults who are full of the fears of their times, be it, a fear of not being loved,
My introduction to Iain Banks was through his dazzling debut novel, The Wasp Factory. Then I read as much of his novels as I could find, including this one. I picked up Walking On Glass again recently and found the original sale receipt Id used as a bookmark. It was twenty years old.Time indeed changes everything. The first thing that struck me on rereading this novel was how amateur the writing seemed in parts the amount of telling rather than showing, the lame dialogue, the overuse of
This is another of those Iain Banks novels where he seems to be responding to a creative writing course challenge. This time, Iain, your mission is to start a novel with three story threads that are as far removed from each other as they could possible be and bring them together in the final few chapters. He succeeds in creating the three scenarios and combines two of them successfully but, for me, falls at the last fence where the 'fantasy' thread unravels into irresolution.I would have enjoyed
Not much to really say; although, being the second of Iain Banks' novels published, it still retains the quite off-the -cuff weirdness and twist that The Wasp Factory had and later became his trademark. And what a twist towards the end, something unexpected until about half the way through. I liked the references to contemporary books trying I suppose to actually show Iain's inspiration (Mervyn Peake, Kafka and Borges, along with Hitchikers Guide by Douglas Adams) and what made Walking on Glass
My first introduction to Banks.The book follows three separate story lines:Graham Park who is in love with a girl who he meets at a party.Steven Grout a paranoid road mender.Quiss, an imprisoned war criminal.All three seemed to be completely separate, but Banks wonderfully weaves them together.Highly enjoyable, I need to read more from this author.
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