miker wrote:
"I'll be damned. I didn't know Banks did non sci-fi stuff. I
picked up his Feersum Injun (sp?) several years back on a
whim at an airport bookstore and liked it."
It seems that Iain Banks adds his middle initial, M, to
distinguish his sci-fi books.
"I read another one and liked it some. I think it was The
Wasp Factory."
I've had Wasp Factory on my shelf for some time. The jacket
says it's the story of a man who killed several people when
he was a child.
"And then I started another one with space ships that were
alive. I think that might be the Complicity that Mark
mentions. I couldn't finish it."
No, Complicity definitely did not have space ships. It's a
serial killer novel, shifting between second person chapters
about the killer and first person chapters by the journalist
who is gaining fame chronicling him and is, therefore, in
complicity (as are the readers). So much so, that the police
begin to suspect he is the killer. Read it a while ago,
remember enjoying it quite a bit, but not quite as much as
Blackburn, which I read around the same time.
Mark
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