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Badger Jul 2020 8:55am, 29 Jul 2020 12,589 posts	0 Badger Oh yes, the netsuke figure is great, carries a lot of weight, too.
Diogenes Jul 2020 9:06am, 29 Jul 2020 51,509 posts	0 Diogenes I don’t remember it!
mrs shanksi Jul 2020 9:11am, 29 Jul 2020 11,053 posts	0 mrs shanksi Lol badger
Red Squirrel Jul 2020 11:02am, 30 Jul 2020 21,511 posts	0 Red Squirrel Yes - the netsuke figure was a great foil. I thought The Steep Approach to Garbadale was a return to early style and really liked it. I completed an early one recently that I'd missed, finally - Whit. Didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
Chrisull Aug 2020 5:06pm, 28 Aug 2020 16,483 posts	0 Chrisull Not good news for Banks fans... Amazon Prime cancel the Culture series: theguardian.com
McGoohan Aug 2020 5:10pm, 28 Aug 2020 46,697 posts	0 McGoohan Bad news: they've cancelled it On the other hand: I didn't know they were doing it
LindsD Aug 2020 5:14pm, 28 Aug 2020 40,181 posts	0 LindsD Me neither. And I don't have Prime. But still bad news.
Little Nemo Aug 2020 5:16pm, 28 Aug 2020 11,036 posts	0 Little Nemo Oh, I did wonder what was happening as there had been no news for ages I guess at least they can't ruin it now!
mrs shanksi Aug 2020 5:19pm, 28 Aug 2020 11,193 posts	0 mrs shanksi I don't usually watch things when I've loved the book anyway. Saying that, I did enjoy The Crow Road when it was on the telly.
Badger Aug 2020 5:33pm, 28 Aug 2020 12,721 posts	0 Badger I thought The Crow Road was excellently cast, and very well done, with one exception - trying to be unspoilery, but the way a certain person dies is changed in a way that I thought could alter how the protagonist reacts to the situation, which undermines a key thread in the book. I always wanted to ask Banks himself what he thought of that detail.