I am a wee bit late blogging this. I finished reading it a week or so ago. But anyways.....
I can understand why Iain Banks is not everyones cup of tea. In some ways he meanders through a story. It takes you in circles, occasionally down cul-de-sacs, sometimes teases you with a brief glimpse of the motorway. But it is this wandering that I like. I know that the story won't really end, it kind of fades out, and you feel that the characters are off to live more life than you will know about.
Banks understands about people and about what goes on in their brain. And it is the characters that he works on. The story around them merely gives a medium to express their thoughts. Garbadale is no different in this respect. And it is highly enjoyable. You want to be with the lead character as he confronts his inner demons, even more so when you realise that what he is trying to find out could destroy him. You want him to succeed and to grow out of the boy in which he has become stuck.
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