by Iain Banks
"Complicity": the clue's in the title. To what extent are we complicit in what happens to us? This is an atmospheric, compelling, intelligent Scottish crime thriller that - like the best genre fiction - also has plenty to say on our messed up world and the human condition. I raced through this sati...
Iain Banks (or Iain M. Banks when he writes SF) can do no wrong as far as I am concerned. His plots don't fail, his writing is sublime, his entertainment value is therefore complete - never a single hiccough while reading any of his books. Not only can I stay in his world(s), I want to be there. Whe...
The most masterful quality of Iain Banks' novel titled Complicity is its use of first and second person narration. Cameron Colley is a drug abusing journalist who is barely making it and is betting his reputation on a mysterious source giving information on a series of murders from five years ago. W...
Sex and violence says Manny. An inferior anti-Thatcherite fantasy says Paul.And I say….It is about hopes and disappointments, unrequited love, bravery and cowardice. Technically, it’s a quintessentially modern English novel. There are two stories travelling at once. Neither of them is told chronolog...
iain banks' sci-fi is fabulously complex and his thrillers can feel almost ostentatiously stripped-down. this is one of the latter. rather good, although rather junior league joyce carol oates as well. specifically j.c. oates under her thriller pseudonym, rosamund smith... he shares the same interes...
I think I get what he was trying to accomplish, but it never quite gelled for me. This book has possibly the best use of second person I've ever read, but that doesn't really make up for the obviousness of its plot twists or the number of graphic depictions of anal rape.
I've read this book before but, having forgotten the end, I was surprised to finish it and find the villain I expected was not the villain. There you go. I really do have a brain like a reverse-sponge. What would a reverse sponge be?Anyway, it's a great book, engaging and interesting and well-writte...
An extremely superior piece of sex and violence. You know, like Hamlet or the Duchess of Malfi or something, but more explicit. Totally unputdownable.
Cameron Colley is an Edinburgh-based journalist with a habit for speed (both drug and motion), an obsession for computer games, and a highly developed sense of moral outrage. As a journalist, he worships the patron of all gonzos, St. Hunter S. Thompson, and his righteous indignation is expressed in ...
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