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| 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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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 | : | Anniversary 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.Rating Of Books Walking on Glass
Ratings: 3.7 From 5549 Users | 210 ReviewsRate Of Books Walking on Glass
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
I'm kind of in the middle of a Banks binge, trying to get a few of his non M books read (Iain Banks = fiction, Iain M. Banks = SciFi). This is the first non M book that I think could have been an M. Walking on Glass has three stories that come together towards the end. The first story is about a man walking to the house of the woman he loves to tell her how he feels. Along the way he recalls moments he spent with her and how he felt at the time, he is walking on air. The second story is about a
(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 each
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
I have marked this book as fantasy, but it is not easy to class, as it is actually three novellas in one, with enough links to keep them close, but still very separate. The first one is a story of love in current (when written) London. I consider it the best written, though the story is predictable and well known, if twisted.The second one is disturbing, presenting an involving tale of what it is to be a clinically insane, but as this is Banks, the hint that may be he is sane after all. It also
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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