With or without the M? All Iain Banks fans welcome here.

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LindsD Jun 2020 10:09am, 20 Jun 2020 38,150 posts	0 LindsD I really didn't like the whisky one. I was so disappointed. I didn't like him as much as I thought I would, and the writing was a bit pedestrian.
Chrisull Jun 2020 10:12am, 20 Jun 2020 16,242 posts	0 Chrisull Yeah I got half way through the whisky one and lost interest, was thinking of trying it again, but I've always liked travelogues and if I didn't like it then, I doubt much will have changed now.
Wriggling Snake Jun 2020 10:26am, 20 Jun 2020 27,260 posts	0 Wriggling Snake Wasp Factory Downhill from there. Complicity pretty good. Downhill again. Crow Road, Espedair street average. Culture Series was tripe.
Velociraptor Jun 2020 10:30am, 20 Jun 2020 47,255 posts	0 Velociraptor I enjoyed The Wasp Factory, but at the end I thought, "My English teacher would have failed me for something so crass." It meant that when Joanne Harris used the same plot twist in Gentlemen and Players I was on to it in a flash and struggled to be bothered reading the rest of the book.
GregP Jun 2020 10:31am, 20 Jun 2020 120,429 posts	0 GregP ~lurks~
McGoohan Jun 2020 10:32am, 20 Jun 2020 45,830 posts	0 McGoohan WS - and how many of them have you read?
Night-owl Jun 2020 10:51am, 20 Jun 2020 34,007 posts	0 Night-owl Read Complicity it was a book group book. I have consider phlebas on my book table
WA Jun 2020 10:55am, 20 Jun 2020 7,103 posts	0 WA The Business was the first one I read. I've got Whit and Wasp Factory by my bed looking at me.
Little Nemo Jun 2020 11:10am, 20 Jun 2020 10,699 posts	0 Little Nemo I'm still re-reading the Culture novels, got Inversions for my birthday as my next read. Maybe I'll pass on the whisky book!
Too Much Water Jun 2020 11:26am, 20 Jun 2020 7,424 posts	0 Too Much Water Couldn’t get on at all with the M books, as wrong genre for me although I appreciated the reference to The Waste Land with the title of Consider Phlebas. Of the non M I enjoyed The Business, Crow Road, Complicity and the Wasp Factory. I’ve tried to read the rest but they didn’t work for me. Perhaps they were too allegorical.