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  <title><![CDATA[Whit, or Isis Amongst the Unsaved]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Iain M. Banks]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a sucker for fictional religions, and Banks is brilliant at inventing them. Luskentyrianism is his best effort yet. If the thing you liked most in <em>Cat's Cradle</em> was Bokononism, you may well enjoy this book too. The charming young heroine, Isis, is the Elect of God, and terribly matter-of-fact abo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38366854">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA['Whit' is one of the funniest books that I have read, I think being an Indian helped me to really get all the funny parts. <br/>The founder of the cult is Scottish, he has been rescued by two Indian women. These ladies have a holy of hollies which is something called slonjish or something like that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50589846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31605270">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Iain Banks first novel, The Wasp Factory, was published in 1984. In the years since, he's won critical acclaim, topped best-seller lists and has even written Science Fiction books under the cunning nom-de-plume 'Iain M. Banks'. He's also seen this book, &quot;The Crow Road&quot;, adapted for televis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31605270">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Isis has spent all her life in a small, fairly benign cult - a cross between the amish and a hippy commune.  This is the story of her journey into the wider world in search of her cousin.  As her quest continues she discovers that many of the certainties she holds dear are not what they appear to be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52225360">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Iain Banks is phenomenonal, and I got the chance to meet him in person in Ediunburgh in '97 - and yes, I do have a signed first edition copy of Whit.<br/><br/>This one is so different from his other books - very humourous, in fact comic at most times. The trials andf tribulations of Isis Whit, fro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67575602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67479226">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 17 18:12:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started out quite droll for me and I struggled to get into the book. By about halfway I knew where the book and the main character Isis was heading and I was constantly reminded of Animal Farm. <br/>It was an enjoyable book and the first I have ever read of Iain Banks and I may read anoth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67479226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58302430">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Highly enjoyable. Only the third of Banks's non scifi books I have read. His concerns get rather predictable, but they are interesting &amp; relatable to, so no mind. His cult was fun, his characters lively, and with a cornily reassuring ending.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Predictable but in a way that allows the reader to be in on the story. I would say Bank's best book.]]></body>
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    <review id="38699587">
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    <body><![CDATA[My first non-scifi iain banks. Very enjoyable read. Although the story is fairly strange, it had me gripped. <br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In some ways, I really liked this; it's (mostly) very well-constructed, and the characters really work despite how outlandish they are, and so on.  It's good satire; the right balance of funny and serious.  But there were a few little things, like the problematicness of narrator knowledge and some o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21912025">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4626741">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 16 02:57:21 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 18 06:52:34 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm always surprised that Iain Banks' fiction isn't more widely  read here in the US.  This book just proves that he should be: the characters are &quot;real&quot;, and while the situation Isis Whit finds herself is may appear totally fictional, I've read enough about Werner Erhart and others to con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4626741">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31201798">
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 25 21:28:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 25 21:32:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a delight.  The main character, Isis, naive, trusting, a true believer -- the kind of character that would ordinarily annoy me, but I was rooting for her the whole way.  The story of her journey is funny and suspenseful.  The story of the cult that she grew up in is funny and insightfu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31201798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36837619">
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    <body><![CDATA[Banks tries hard to give his heroine a convincing voice but doesn't manage it, and the comic-book eccentricity of every single character is grating by the overdue end. But the book speaks eloquently about cults and religion in general, and there's a good quota of laughs tucked away there, too.]]></body>
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    <review id="33910828">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not Banks' best, but still an excellent read. Clunky at first, it picks up as the story progresses. More predictable than usual. &quot;Crow Road&quot; and &quot;Wasp Factory&quot; are better intros to Banks. ]]></body>
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    <review id="8726859">
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't remember much about this book, only that I really liked it at the time, which was probably about twelve years ago. I woudl like to re-read it to see if it still stands up.]]></body>
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    <review id="37625004">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun read which appears to be a stab at cults and organised religion but ends up being more insightful.  Enjoyable but not as good as the Crow Road.]]></body>
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    <review id="30533479">
    <user id="264339">
    <name><![CDATA[Greg]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting protagonist wasted on silly plot.]]></body>
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    <review id="2569565">
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    <body><![CDATA[Very entertaining reag.]]></body>
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