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Original Title:	Espedair Street
ISBN:	0316858552 (ISBN13: 9780316858557)
Characters:	Daniel Weir
Setting:	Glasgow, Scotland

Espedair Street Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages

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Title	:	Espedair Street
Author	:	Iain Banks
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	July 5th 2001 by Little, Brown (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Music

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Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe still is. At thirty-one he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success. He's made a lot of mistakes that have paid off and a lot of smart moves he'll regret forever (however long that turns out to be). Daniel Weir has gone from rags to riches and back, and managed to hold onto them both, though not much else. His friends all seem to be dead, fed up with him or just disgusted - and who can blame them? And now Daniel Weir is all alone. As he contemplates his life, Daniel realises he only has two problems: the past and the future. He knows how bad the past has been. But the future - well, the future is something else.

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Confession: Ive never read any of Iain Banks work, with or without the middle initial. Ill be correcting that now that Ive had my first taste. Im also a hobbyist musician so the premise here was practically perfect for drawing me in. Draw me in it did, as I found every opportunity to read another few pages, another chapter, just one more revelation to help paint a more complete picture.The books meandering narrative timeline was used as a really effective tool without the handholding I usually

Just brilliant. I love Iain Banks' books. I laughed. I thought. I cried. I walked in another's shoes. You can't ask for more.

They're supposedly just friends. But now they're lying naked on the beach together, looking up at the stars with no one else in sight, and he's trying to find a tactful way to explain how he feels about her. (This kind of thing seems to happen more frequently to rock stars than it does to me). Luckily, she's a practical girl with good night vision."Are you pointing at anything in particular?" she asks.

There are few novels as sexist and self-centred as this one. The worst part? It feels like the author is projecting himself in this book. Thankfully, I live in Germany. Wouldnt want him to see that all women arent mothers and sex objects made to please him and his giant ego. Wrote your own songs? It sounds more like you just learned how to write rhymed verse.

Ive always been impressed by Iain (M.) Banks range. Whether hes writing about an hermaphroditic serial killer and his/her mechanical wasp oracle, a man in a coma living a second life on a vast hyperreal bridge of the mind, a bored gamer compelled by artificial intelligences to play the ultimate game on a distant planet, or a brilliant woman whose place in an omnipotent corporation takes her to a kingdom in the Himalayas, Banks always maintains his artistry and deliberate social relevance without

I would have preferred to give it 4.5 stars as but 4 are too few, so 5 it is. I didn't quite know what to expect, I thought the dialogue and the narrative would be quirkier and then I saw when it was written - it surprised me. It seems to me that here in Paisley, Glasgow with its wall's held up by graffiti, Irvine Welsh could easily have drawn inspiration. The only other Iain Banks book I'd read was 'A Song of Stone' (hardback) many years ago, too many years ago, meaning too few years of me, to

Yet another solid classic from Banksy. It's so hard to write a book about music no one has ever heard, but this comes very, very close to getting the songs in your head without ever hearing a note. The mood of the book goes from grim to elation and down again steeply. Banksy has a wicked way with writing character deaths and there's a couple in here you wouldn't believe would be possible, but everything is set up just so, making them as real as any others.A rock "legend" in hiding the lead