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Original Title:	The Crow Road
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/the-crow-road/
Setting:	Glasgow, Scotland Scotland

The Crow Road

Iain Banks

Paperback | Pages: 501 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 19379 Users | 757 Reviews

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Title	:	The Crow Road
Author	:	Iain Banks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 501 pages
Published	:	1993 by Abacus (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Mystery. Cultural. Scotland. Thriller. Novels. Literature

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'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach.' Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God and illegal substances...

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If you want a completely absorbing, wickedly funny Scottish family saga full of often bizarre, complexly-f'ed-up intrigue and sibling rivalry etc, look no further, likesay, ye ken?Did I ever tell you about the time I used to be able to make televisions go wonky, from far away? It was a bright and warm day, back in that same summer Rory had come out to the Hebrides with us. Rory and I were walking near Gallanach, going from the marked rocks in one field to the stone circle in another. I remember

It was the day my grandmother exploded. When you start a book with this sentence, you have definitely got the reader hooked - and you will keep her with you throughout, provided you can keep the momentum.Iain Banks pulls it off smoothly.This is the tale of the McHoan clan of Gallanch: a gifted, eccentric and somehow cursed Scottish family, told mostly through the eyes of young Prentice McHoan. As the novel begins, we see him going through the angst of a young man at the beginning of the

The Crow Road is not Iain Banks best book, but I understand why it is his most popular (even though I am sure it's the wrong Banks book on that list of 1001 books to read). It has the most catchy of openings: "It was the day my grandmother exploded." It's an opening that appears regularly in lists of "best opening lines" and rightly so; it's intriguing, messy and one of the best hooks I can remember reading. Apart from some characters in a couple of his lesser known "mainstream" novels, the

I was enjoying the hell out of this book right up until, near the end, it decided without warning to become a murder mystery. That section felt so out of place with the rest of this meandering, detailed meditation on death and growing up.Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the recent changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.In the meantime, you can read the entire review at Smorgasbook

I always used to scoff at the notion a reader had found a book they love because they feel it 'speaks to them'; like the writer had transcribed their innermost thoughts and feelings into print and it reached out to them like nothing else ever had. Admittedly, this was mostly because I was so envious of what that must feel like. (Mind you, I always scoff at those who relentlessly read classics and books popularly perceived as 'high-brow', and even those who read a lot, just for what seems like

And it is like this.Suddenly tears spring from your eyes and and you are too surprised by them to be able to stop the small flood that follows. Not entirely timely since you are in your favourite coffee shop hereabouts waiting for a vegetable tagine.* * * * Prentice, you prat, how can you not see the bleeding obvious right in front of your nose? As I wait for my tagine, Im wondering what those who like to divide writing up by quality where literature is best call Banks? Not literature.

Damn, this book was terrific! I don't know why I didn't stumble across it earlier, given it was published in 1992 and was adapted by the BBC as a miniseries in 1996 (oh wait .... the 90's were the years that got eaten by my "professional career"... the mindless TV years). Anyway, no matter."It was the day my grandmother exploded." Any author with the balls to have that as an opening sentence deserves to be given a chance, at least. Banks keeps up the brilliance for another 500 pages, drawing you