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    <body><![CDATA[I love bridges, I spent much of my childhood designing them and building models. I love pictures and photographs of, and books about bridges, and I love the engineering aspects. I sit on bridges, under bridges, and looking at bridges, and feel complete. I love the Forth Bridge in Scotland, from when...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16520546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should start by saying that Iain Banks is one of my favourite authors, although I don't necessarily enjoy all of his books.  The Bridge is the first of his books I read, and I can best describe it as a cross between psychological thriller and science fiction. I found the story is incredibly compel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11153577">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't sure whether I enjoyed this book, or whether I got anything out of it.  I had high expectations, because I usually enjoy Iain Banks' books and find them thought provoking.<br/><br/>This one is rather Kafkaesque, though without the overlong sentences of the real Kafka.  This is not an acti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49682739">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm an Iain Banks fan from way back, though sometimes I find myself thrashing around in his prose so violently that I abandon a book midway through. Banks writes science fiction (as &quot;Iain M. Banks&quot;) and...other fiction. It would be wrong to call it mainstream or &quot;straight&quot; in any...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77686066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book is a difficult but worthy enterprise. In many ways this has to be Banks' best non-SF effort though there are elements of his SF writing here. It's set in two planes of existence and that's very hard to get off the ground but the rich detail, the worrying quality of the story and in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23911748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably Banks' most accomplished book. It's about a chap in a coma reassessing his hedonistic life. Does the whole dual narrative thing where there's a realist strand telling you about his life, and a fantasy strand about this funny wee bridge world. As a Fifer in Edinburgh, I like the fact that it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/358664">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Con Banks se cumple una máxima: nunca escribe dos veces la misma historia. Y esto no es nada sencillo, ya que en un momento o en otro todos los escritores caen en el autoplagio.<br/><br/>La historia es apasionante. John Orr, nuestro protagonista, vive en una ciudad que no es tal. Se trata de un p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43905996">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Et zou, encore une critique spoilerisée, mais pas autant que la quatrième de couverture (qui soit dit en passant est une honte pour l’éditeur, Folio SF) qui révèle directement la fin de l’histoire, ne la lisez donc surtout pas. <br/>Malheureusement pour moi, je l’ai lu, et je sais donc q...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26192903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Bridge is Banks at his best, imaginative, intelligent and dark – as one has come to expect from him, but also laced through with a deep humanity. His tight grip of character, plot, motive and timeline is matched in equal measure with a lightness of touch from a master story teller.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41476340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great stuff. Don't judge a book by its cover :,) It has the surface appearance of a diverting and semi-sci-fi, semi-fantastical intrigue, but turns out to be deeper, more powerful and more moving than that. ....Canny diversion - I remembered things about my own heart I'd forgotten. Choose life! And ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66603915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Fearsome Endjinn, this non-Culture book has phonetic chapters (a Scottish swordsman in this case), and an extremely large building.  Look out for a jokey cameo from his Culture books, and if I remember right, a depressing ending.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite Iain Banks - I also have a UK Abacus edition but it has a totally different black and white cover illustration from the one attached to this (it's more like the one in the hard cover edition).<br/>For some reason everyone on the psychedelic rock listservs I'm on much prefers Banks' more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1290713">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a lot to like here---layers of fantasy interwoven and echoing off each other---but I felt a bit let down after finishing.  That is, the ending was fine, but there were several threads that didn't get resolved very well (or at all).  Also, I can't help but feel like the &quot;coma dream&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72481069">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[dave bayer thought this would be a good starter Ian M. Banks for me, one of his favorite authors.  I enjoyed reading it but it but wasn't compelled to read more of him.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[soooooperb read! This was one of the books that introduced me to &quot;fantasy&quot; as a serious genre...then came Will Self, Erickson...Murakami...etc. etc.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[brilliant! made me a) wonder why i don't read authors that i've enjoyed before more often, and b) want to read some &quot;m&quot; banks science fiction. it's a half way house between science and regular fiction, tackling lucid dreams in a similar fashion to the tom cruise film &quot;vanilla sky.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72591200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is, first and foremost, a love story. As a confessed Romantic, this is my favorite Iain M. Banks book. But it is much more than a love story, even if it is one that resonates very powerfully on me. It is also a vision on the wonders and depths of human fantasy, and how everyone of us holds the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16305005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Bridge by Iain Banks (2001)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At its best, shows tinges to creative genius, at its worst seems to be completely disorganized.  The result of course, is a book that comes across as uneven.  The imaginative grandeur of the fantasy world (the bridge of the title) is completely overwhelmed by the dullness of the plot in the actual w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19278068">more...</a>]]></body>
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