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  <title><![CDATA[The Business]]></title>
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  <default_description>Kate is a senior executive officer in a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organization. The character of The Business seems, even to her, to be vague to the point of invisibility. Her job is to keep abreast of technological developments, but she must let go the assumptions of a lifetime.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1999</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Iain M. Banks]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 18 09:28:01 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is science fiction only because its premise of a globe-spanning corporation which has been around in one form or another since the Roman Empire is so outlandish. Banks is a good writer, and its well written with good characters and funny where it needs to be and so on, but it loses points with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43459797">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Oct 05 13:56:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fairly straight-up business conspiracy thriller, spanning the globe on private jets, Banks' gripping prose takes the reader from toffy Yorkshire manors to the American West to the tips of the Himalayas, with amusing observations and hilarious characters along the way.  One of his most accessible w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73540184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70039315">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 04 09:16:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 05 04:05:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book, his style and characters were both very entertaining but the ending seemed a little abrubt and strange, it's also slightly predictible at points, it deserves more than three stars but I can't bring myself to give it four, its about three and a half in my opinion.]]></body>
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    <review id="44733245">
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    <name><![CDATA[Fatatat]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Feb 02 03:36:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not really my kind of book with all the boyish spy stuff but it did have a running dialogue involving the main characters love life so there was just about enough there to keep me occupied. Character's were very well established.]]></body>
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    <review id="44553539">
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 27 14:35:01 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 27 14:36:03 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not one of his best. I've tried to read it twice now and can't get through it.]]></body>
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    <review id="42492431">
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    <name><![CDATA[Decoyotis]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 15 12:14:21 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[most enjoyable read but perhaps lacking a bit of pace. Story wasn't quite as good as is traditional for Banks. ]]></body>
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    <review id="41221394">
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 29 15:33:24 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 29 15:34:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[as with all banks books, a good ending but kinda slow to get started.]]></body>
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    <review id="77038170">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 07 15:15:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What was the piont and why was the ending so rushed?]]></body>
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    <review id="57125842">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit on the predictable side but well written]]></body>
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    <review id="56692133">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kevin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 19 19:47:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 19 19:52:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I completely forgot that I had read this book. As a consequence, I bought a second copy years later, thinking  &quot;Ah! a new book by Iain Banks!&quot;<br/>It is a mere genre exercise, with some moments of Banks' signature dark, brutal wit, and a general competency on all levels. But it is in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56692133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47466458">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mollie]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Business by Iain Banks (1999)]]></body>
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    <review id="41116851">
    <user id="1071424">
    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 28 15:39:45 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 03 23:19:18 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one was just okay for me. Nothing particularly special, but nicely written &amp; interesting characters. I guess Banks has set himself up so high in my mind, that if one of his books doesnt knock me over, Im a little disappointed. This isnt one of his best, but it was enjoyable.]]></body>
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    <review id="13403604">
    <user id="246978">
    <name><![CDATA[Leigh Ann]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Columbus, OH]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Likes strong female main character, international travel, conspiracy.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 24 10:32:45 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 20 12:47:23 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought that the book was interesting, great background.  Great characters-strong independent main character, lots of travel. I was really into it, but the end seemed very abrupt and was a little disappointing.  I liked the author a lot though and have been told by the person that gave me this boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13403604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9861302">
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    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Las Cruces, NM]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 18 08:35:57 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am about 100 pages into it and so far I am not impressed.  I don't think Mr. Banks researched manufacturing or financial institutions enough to fully develop the characters and make them believable.  Although he talks about corruption and transparency in The Business, he doesn't seem very aware of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9861302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31976887">
    <user id="978027">
    <name><![CDATA[Sunflower]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Sep 12 17:44:21 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book is kind of like eating processed cheese. Easy to do, seems ok at the time, but not a lot of substance to it. A caricature of the business world, requires quite a lot of suspension of disbelief at times, and I probably won't be able to remember it a few weeks from now, but good enou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31976887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69416710">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not]]></body>
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    <review id="23214689">
    <user id="43233">
    <name><![CDATA[sean]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this was going to be an SF book, not realizing that his SF stuff is published under the name Iain M. Banks. The M. is key. I like it pretty so far, however, and  will probably check out his first SF book, Consider Phlebas soon. Looks like it's just come out in a new SF edition.]]></body>
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    <review id="1164247">
    <user id="82904">
    <name><![CDATA[Jen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't recall finding anything wrong with the plot, not that I particularly remember it now, nor the style. However, I felt Iain Banks was unable to write believable female characters and with the protagonist being female I found it difficult to take the book seriously.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 03 12:38:47 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 03 12:38:47 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A sorry effort from Banks, who quite obviously couldn't be bothered with this one. The story is dissolute, the heroine bland, and the detail manages to feel creakingly dated after only five years. Don't let this aberration put you off a great writer.]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Kelvin]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 28 09:34:20 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 29 03:17:07 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This seems to be a love it or hate it book. I really enjoyed, but probably not a book for fans of Iain M Banks science fiction, or his darker novels such as the Wasp Factory or Complicity.]]></body>
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