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[laetistardust]

Prentice McHoan est revenu au cœur de sa famille Écossaise, complexe mais persistante. Rempli de questions au sujet des passé, présent et futur des McHoan, il est aussi profondément préoccupé : principalement par la mort, le sexe, l'alcool, Dieu et les substances illicites... (traduit de Goodreads)

Si vous suivez mon blog, vous aurez vu revenir ce titre depuis environ deux mois. C'est le temps qu'il m'a fallu pour me rendre à l'évidence : ce livre n'est pas pour moi. Je progressais lentement et je n'arrivais plus à me persuader de reprendre ma lecture. Finalement, peu après en avoir passé la moitié, j'ai décidé que le jeu n'en valait plus la chandelle.

Le livre n'est pas sans qualités. Sa phrase d'accroche reste légendaire, ses personnages sont nuancés et attachants, ses jeux de narration sont intéressants et la prose de l'auteur démontre des moments saisissants de poésie.

Malheureusement, ces instants sont trop rares à mon goût. Le reste de la narration a tendance à s'apesantir, se perdant en considérations métaphysiques. Surtout, Prentice, notre protagoniste, est particulièrement insupportable. Un choix conscient de l'auteur, qui voulait lui offrir une évolution plausible, mais c'est surtout un pari risqué.

Mais le choix que je comprend le moins est celui qui concerne la disparition de l'oncle Rory. C'est sans doute l'élément le plus intéressant et il est introduit dès le premier chapitre. Pourtant, il faut attendre la seconde moitié du roman pour que Prentice, après avoir passé 250 pages à s'apitoyer sur lui-même, décide enfin de mener l'enquête. À ce stade, j'avais déjà perdu tout intérêt pour l'histoire.

The Crow Road est un livre extrêmement populaire dans les pays anglo-saxons en générale, et en Écosse en particulier. Il est salué par la critique et les lecteurs Goodreads ne tarissent pas d'éloge à son sujet. Il est indéniable que ce livre a su toucher de nombreux lecteurs. Malheureusement, je ne fais pas partie du lot de ses admirateurs.

#thecrowroad #iainbanks #dnf #roman #sagafamiliale #ecosse #secretsdefamille #livre #critique #lecturedoctobre

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[debsmooth]

The AI gave me this today. I’m going with it. I must aim for this look. It’s straight out of an Iain Banks Culture novel. #AIart #iainmbanksculture #iainbanks #theculture (at Lochend, City of Edinburgh) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl5m-1YIoZF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bibliobethblog]

Hello everyone and hope you’re well. Tonight from the UK I’m joining in with the #monochromesixbookchallenge which I was tagged in by the lovely @always_need_more_books but I know that the fantastic @nicki_mags has also done a post too. I’ve read and can HIGHLY recommend The Five but the rest are on my TBR still. I am hoping to get to The New Wilderness quite soon. Let mr know your thoughts on any of these books or authors as always, especially if you’ve read or fancy reading them. If you think this tag looks fun like I did, consider yourself tagged! Coming tomorrow, my review of Empire Of The Vampire 🧛‍♂️ #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagramchallenge #sixbookcolourchallenge #tbrpile #thenewwilderness #dianecook #thewychelm #tanafrench #thefive #hallierubenhold #asongofstone #iainbanks #thetunnel #ernestosabato #mordew #alexpheby #blackandwhitebooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CVirkr5L8fl/?utm_medium=tumblr

[quotetheculture]

Yes! Yes! Mighty Prophet! Succor me!

Fwi-Song

[davewellbeloved]

Lastly fiction top shelf, non-fiction/Greek mythology/humour/journalism bottom shelf #books #bookshelf #fiction #harlanellison #philipkdick #williamgibson #iainbanks #journalism #huntersthompson #homer #greekmythology (at Cardiff) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7vl6FMFg7N/?igshid=1n3p6u50nwat8

[ospalh]

I’m re-reading Whit by Iain Banks, and, well, the relations get a bit complicated. So, after quickly finding out that LibreOffice (or M$ Word) “draw your own family tree” templates just weren’t up to the task, i found the LaTeX package genealogytree.

Here the relations of most main characters. The only one missing is Yolanda, Isis’ maternal grandmother.

While making this i noticed an oddity. According to the e-book version, Isis’s half-brother Zeb(-ediah) wasn’t a blood relative of here at all: “Malcolm Redpath and Matilda Blohm begat a son, Zebediah”. Huh? Malcom Redpath is on there, but as a partner of an aunt (half-aunt?). In the paper version it is “Cristhopher Whit and Matilda Blohm begat a son, Zebediah”, and that makes Zeb Isis’s half brother. See above.

The tree is mostly from a page in chapter 9. “After this it gets complicated.”

[robinallender]

First book of the year is what my friend described as, ‘Cider with Rosie as written by Fred West’. Shockingly good though, and I look forward to reading more Iain (M.) Banks. Any recommendations?

Each of us, in our own personal Factory, may believe we have stumbled down one corridor, and that our fate is sealed and certain (dream or nightmare, humdrum or bizarre, good or bad), but a word, a glance, a slip – anything can change that, alter it entirely, and our marble hall becomes a gutter, or our rat-maze a golden path.

[deepdarkspaceblog]

'The Algebraist' Is The Last Iain M. Banks Book I Will Ever Read

The Algebraist is the Last Iain M. Banks Book I Will Ever Read #bookreview #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheAlgebraist

Iain M. Bank’s The Algebraist was published in 2004. I picked up my copy sometime in 2007. Over the years I have picked up The Algebraist to read, but for one reason or another put it back down. I would get to it, I thought. Sadly, in 2013, Iain M. Banks (or Iain Banks for readers of his more mainstream works) passed away from inoperable cancer. I immediately began a reread of his Culture…

[anastasiabankova]

A #column for #walkingonglass by #iainbanks (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrGR2ldgPmq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=49sn1v5s40kg

[haista-kaavittu]

Iain Banks

[fehadhafiz-blog]

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge G.R.R. Martin #tokillamockingbird #greatexpectations #thebookthief #athousandsplendidsuns #stolen #enduringlove #thecolorpurple #thewaspfactory #iainbanks #khaledhosseini #charlesdickens #cewan #harperlee #markuszusak #lucychristopher #alicewalker

[barlemusic]

#BenFrost The Wasp Factory Based on a novel by #IainBanks http://english.hebbel-am-ufer.de/programme/schedule/the-wasp-factory/ (at Hake Cape Hill)

[greenhandbooks]

Sooooo much Iain Banks in one place! WHAHOOOO!!! #IainBanks #sf #books #scifi (at The Green Hand)

[gingersaurusread]

Because truth matters. #thecrowroad #iainbanks

[ileanadafne]

Leituras atuais 😍😍 -#OHobbit #JRRTolkien -#FábricadeVespas #IainBanks -#LugarNenhum #NeilGaiman -#AsMentirasDeLockeLamora #ScottLynch 📖📚

[veereads]

“The madder people...A lot of them seem to be leaders of countries or religions or armies. The real loonies.” #TheWaspFactory #IainBanks