matter came out fairly recently didn't it?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:47, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

not really
I was still working in a book shop, and I left there a year and a half ago

He had a none sci fi one recently - Transitions - usually a sci fi one follows
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:49, Reply)

not read Transition
any good?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:51, Reply)

'tis awesome
Well worth a read IMO. Not sure how it's ended up lumped in with his non sci-fi stuff as it's got parallel worlds and whatnot.
(barnaby_kettleworth, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:52, Reply)

some of them do
can't remember which ones off-hand...walking on glass or the bridge probably
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:54, Reply)

I expect
he gets to decide himself

perhaps he's tempting scifi-haters to the dark side
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:56, Reply)

www.amazon.co.uk/New-Culture-Novel-Iain-Banks/dp/1841498939/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262707094&sr=8-13
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:59, Reply)

Jan 2008 I think.
Does that mean this time next year for the next one? Transition was practically sci-fi anyway.
(barnaby_kettleworth, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:50, Reply)

still not read that
any good? I do like his nongenre stuff, but it varies
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:51, Reply)

the crow road, complicity and dead air were great
I thought so anyway
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:52, Reply)

Loved The Bridge and The Crow Road
Song of Stone is pretty blergh, but all the rest of it is all well worth reading.
(barnaby_kettleworth, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)

canal dreams was weird
not sure I enjoyed that one much
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:54, Reply)

steep approach...
was pretty similar to The Crow Road
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)

I always think that is the one about whisky
so don't read it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:01, Reply)

The whisky one is really
good, part whisky book, part autobiography, mostly Mr Banks arsing about in Scotland
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:02, Reply)

sounds reasonably interesting
He was on the "My planet rocks" segment on Planet Rock a little while ago

he likes good music
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:03, Reply)

cool
he also likes to climb the outsides of hotels at sci fi award parties, apparently.

When I (don't) grow up I want to be like him :)
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:06, Reply)

Not so convinced by Dead Air
fairly enjoyable, but not as gripping as the others. I suppose it gets marks for having mark and lard in it :)

Was Complicity the one where he wrote in the second person, I liked that one
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)

complicity was about the journalist
made into a reasonable film with Johnny Lee Miller in it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)

perhaps that's the one
I haven't read and never buy because I think it's one of the others
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:56, Reply)

For what little it's worth..
I rank them thusly :
The Bridge
Transition
Complicity
The Business
Whit
The Wasp Factory
Garbadale
Espedair Street
Dead Air
Canal Dreams
Song of Stone
(barnaby_kettleworth, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:00, Reply)

fuck
I forgot Espedair Street!

that's one of my all time favourite books

must buy Transition
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:01, Reply)

Wasp Factory
is on loads of reading lists for college now, that,1984 and Handmaid's Tale. Lucky bastards
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:03, Reply)

I liked the Wasp Factory

It divides opinion I find
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:10, Reply)

if I made a list like Barnaby's
I think it would be somewhere near the top, although I agree The Bridge was best (of the ones I've read)
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:12, Reply)

the worst thing about making a lsit like that
is that the very second I posted it I wanted to go back and revise it as I've not read some of them in years, but sod it - that would be cheating
(barnaby_kettleworth, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:31, Reply)