The Crow Road

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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 Read The Crow Road author Iain Banks – kino-fada.fr This is a re read for me, I first read this a long time ago but I loved returning to it I admit to hugely adoring the author and his wide body of work, including the sci fi Iain Banks has a imaginative and distinctive storytelling approach, offbeat characters and unusual, curious scenarios that cannot fail to capture a reader s interest The icing on the cake is the wit and humour pervading this novel of loss and death There is a strong sense of the Scottish location in the tale of Prentice M This is a re read for me, I first read this a long time ago but I loved returning to it I admit to hugely adoring the author and his wide body of work, including the sci fi Iain Banks has a imaginative and distinctive storytelling approach, offbeat characters and unusual, curious scenarios that cannot fail to capture a reader s interest The icing on the cake is the wit and humour pervading this novel of loss and death There is a strong sense of the Scottish location in the tale of Prentice McHoan, a larger than life character We learn of his growing up years, the sex, the girls and the history of his family Prentice becomes intrigued with the disappearance of his Uncle Rory at the time he was working on The Crow Road Banks looks at memory, the broad issues of all it is to be human, family and the circle of life and death itself This is dark book which was a thrilling re read, it seemed even better second time round ...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...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 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 in to the story of three Scottish families with a complicated, interlocked history Young Prentice McHoan is a pretty irresistible first person narrator, so that it s a pleasure to accompany him as he navigates his last year at co...The story is told mainly by Prentice McHoan who having returned to Scotland is reunited with his very different and complex family Prentice tells tales of the family past, present and future all the time being preoccupied with mainly deat... 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. The Crow Road is the first novel by Iain Banks that I ve read, and it has one of the best and irresistible opening hooks ever it quite literally begins with a bang get it What other novel begins with the main character s dead grandmother exploding Iain Banks is a 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. The Crow Road is the first novel by Iain Banks that I ve read, and it has one of the best and irresistible opening hooks ever it quite literally begins with a bang get it What other novel begins with the main character s dead grandmother exploding Iain Banks is a Scottish writer who is probablyknown...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 It s so easy to choose this famous opening line for starting a review of Crow Road, and therein lies the danger of focusing only on the sarcasm, the tongue in cheek, flippant running commentary provided by Prentice McHoan on the history of his family and on his own gr 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 It s so easy to choose this famous opening...This is the 25th Anniversary Edition of The Crow Road 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 reflected that it was always death that brought me back to Gallanach.The Crow Road is the first book I have read by the author, Iain Banks The story is told mostly by the protagonist Prentice McHoan I could not make my mind up if this book was a family drama or a murder mystery The charact This is the 25th Anniversary Edition of The Crow Road It was the day my Grandmother exploded I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Ha...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 ...If I could choose no stars I would have I really cannot stand books that have characters I don t care about No one in this mess of family extended family friends of family was remotely memorable I could care less about their issues as well I read this book because it s on the 1001 books list and I have never read anything by Iain Banks before and I wasn t missing anything The reviews for this book were great so I was very disappointed in it s lack of eh everything Brilliant not If I could choose no stars I would have I really cannot stand books that have characters I don t care about No one in this mess of family extended family friends of family was remotely memorable I could care less about their issues as well I read this book because it s on the 1001 books list and I have never read anything by Iain Banks before and I wa...Iain Banks Every time I go through the process of selecting the next book to read, and one of his comes up, I wonder, hmmmshould I now Or should I put this off until I m ready for a special time perhaps.The thing is, Iain Banks is a very special writer You need to be ready for him because his stories require a ...

The Crow Road
  • English
  • 07 September 2018
  • Paperback
  • 501 pages
  • 0349103232
  • Iain Banks
  • The Crow Road