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# I just looked at your MySpace
I think my only comment is that 'Ian Banks' is actually 'Iain Banks'

I hope you don't mind this correction...

;)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 23:54, archived)
# Iain is a trademark
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 23:55, archived)
# damn
is it? that's me a few hundred thousand down the tubes at least
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 23:56, archived)
# hahahah
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 23:57, archived)
# Umm...
Considering he makes up the majority of my bookshelf, thats quite worrying. Cheers...
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 23:55, archived)
# no problem
i aim to please...

(also is anything he's written since a song of stone any cop? except the long road to garbadale which i thought was good except his suddent random rants aimed at america which jarred with the whole story?)

edit: shit, it's "the steep approach to garbadale". now banks is going to sue me as well.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 23:57, archived)
# Umm...yes
The Wasp Factory, The Bridge, Complicity, The Crow Road...the list goes on, really.
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 23:59, archived)
# but...
...they're from before a song of stone...

i don't actually know what's from after, to be fair. i do, though, agree that most of the iain m banks books are a pack of toss. inversions is good though.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 0:13, archived)