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I was immensely impressed with Banks' ability to force me to care about the main character and what happened to him by the end of this otherwise shocking and disturbing read. Its not too often I find an author who can so subtly manipulate my feelings and sympathies.
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This is the second time of entering Frank's criminally sadistic world. I first read it 40 years ago on first publication and it blew me away, I've read just about all Banks's non-Sci Fi novels since. Coming back to it, I was prepared to be shocked, the sheer cruelty and nastiness of it, so the impact of the story was a little less, but the observation, imagination, craftsmanship and beefy prose style shine out as brightly as ever. And I didn't remember the twist at the end. For years I wanted to
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Well, that was disturbing..intense, certainly a page-turner.
Jan 10, 2013
Naga Sravika Bodapati
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