Walking On Glass
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Narrated by:
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Peter Kenny
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By:
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Iain Banks
About this listen
Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut. Her lips were pale, and nearly too full for her small mouth, like something bled but bruised. He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life. Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch 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.
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Critic reviews
"[A]n extraordinary feat, terrifying and baffling, going far beyond the bounds of fiction as it's usually defined." (Publishers Weekly)
"Establishes beyond doubt that Iain Banks is a novelist of remarkable talents." (Daily Telegraph)
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- Stuart
- 17-04-15
Not his best and a little confusing
If you're an Iain Banks fan, then this is worth listening to. If you're an Iain M. Banks fan, then this is also worth a shot, as it's one of his "cross-over" books, much like "Transition".
However, unlike some of his other books, I didn't really warm to any of the main characters and a couple of them positively annoyed me.
It also takes Banks's penchant for leaving things open to interpretation and takes it to an extreme. For my tastes, it really is a little to open ended, with too many possibilities to get any real satisfaction at the books conclusion.
On the good side, it's as well written as you would expect from early Banks and read as excellently as ever by Peter Kenny.
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- PJM
- 26-11-22
Walking on Glass
OK, so I'm a biased reviewer. I love Banks' writing and I love Kenny's narrations. Listening to this was a massive nostalgia trip: the 80s; being a young man; unrequited love; gaming for hours; feeling apart from the mainstream; and now ageing. There's so much in this parallel narrative tale to enjoy. It's not perfect, I always thought Banks struggled with endings, narrative closure was not his strength. Banks was a wordsmith, so evocative and engaging and Kenny is one off the finest narrators out there.
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- Chris Tarplee
- 30-11-20
35 years
I started to read this book when I bought it, on the day of its release 35 years ago.
I finished it in double quick (too quick) time and somehow missed it's brilliance.
I'm now 54 years old and I take my time about things. Listening, instead of reading. it is a brilliant book. Iain Banks is the master and I miss him very much.
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- Dorset Bob
- 29-11-21
One of my favourite ever books.
Peter Kenny does such a great job of telling and performing this book. Bravo Sir!
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-09-21
Typical Banks
Simple and yet fascinating. Banks manages to make readers think, with his subtle explorations of various themes such as aging, love and mental illness.
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- Lee Taylor
- 21-02-22
A particular style
as usual, Iain challenges the reader to keep up, dropping you straight into a story to decipher what's going on, it's one of the reasons I love his books, this is a strange tale in 3 parts all odd and all interesting.
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- Ali H.
- 03-01-16
Unsatisfactory Backs with more than a hint of M
3 different stories, or interpretations of reality?
At least 2 of them collide, but the listener is denied the satisfaction of an explanation in the end, and left to their own interpretation. Many abound in literal circles, but mine is just that it's just too much like life - an unsatisfactory ending.
Well read, though.
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- I. Mitchell
- 23-08-21
A big disappointment
Not even the wonderful Peter Kenny could save this one. A rare disappointment from Banks.
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