With or without the M? All Iain Banks fans welcome here.

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LindsD Jun 2020 9:08am, 20 Jun 2020 38,145 posts	0 LindsD The Crow Road or Walking on Glass? Consider Plebas or The Hydrogen Sonata? Have you read The Quarry yet? A place for Banks fans and the Banks-curious.
McGoohan Jun 2020 9:13am, 20 Jun 2020 45,826 posts	0 McGoohan I've never heard of 'im?
McGoohan Jun 2020 9:13am, 20 Jun 2020 45,827 posts	0 McGoohan Obvs... my fave author ever.
LindsD Jun 2020 9:13am, 20 Jun 2020 38,147 posts	0 LindsD Hm. Douglas?
LindsD Jun 2020 9:13am, 20 Jun 2020 38,148 posts	0 LindsD (Starting off with a fight )
McGoohan Jun 2020 9:19am, 20 Jun 2020 45,829 posts	0 McGoohan Bestest M's (for me, in descending order) Use of Weapons Inversions Feersum Endjinn Against A Dark Background Surface Detail The Player of Games Consider Phlebas Excession Look to Windward The Algebraist Matter State of the Art (I haven't read The Hydrogen Sonata and Transition was only an M is the US)
Little Nemo Jun 2020 9:34am, 20 Jun 2020 10,697 posts	0 Little Nemo Has anyone read his book about whisky? I thought it might be a good present for someone who likes a wee dram. I prefer his M to non-M books but they're all good. Haven't read his last books because then they'll be no more to read
Badger Jun 2020 9:40am, 20 Jun 2020 12,427 posts	0 Badger You’re definitely among friends here, then, LN, same with McG and me. Been on the shelf staring at me since he died.
WA Jun 2020 9:52am, 20 Jun 2020 7,100 posts	0 WA I haven't read any of his M books His last non-M book, The Quarry is heartbreaking. I think he wrote it before his own diagnosis. The rage against the disease is so real, you can touch it
Velociraptor Jun 2020 10:03am, 20 Jun 2020 47,254 posts	0 Velociraptor Not read any of the Ms and I decluttered the whisky book in our most recent book cull, deciding that if we'd had it for more than a decade and neither of us had made time to read it we probably never would. The Quarry is one of a small number of hardbacks I, erm, borrowed from my FiL's book hoard instead of sending it to the tip, but I haven't read it yet. Complicity was the first one I read; a friend lent it to me expecting me to clutch my pearls and I loved it. Whit was probably my favourite.