{"id":186,"date":"2002-11-10T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-10T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/iain_banks_business.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:37:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:37:40","slug":"iain_banks_business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/iain_banks_business.html","title":{"rendered":"Iain Banks recommendations gone wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back I recommended Iain Banks&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0349112452\/crazedmonke0d-20\">The Business<\/a> to Vic only to find out that <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0108956\/2002\/11\/06.html#a33\" title=\"Victor Ng's Weblog: Iain Banks' The Business\">he wasn&#8217;t too keen on it<\/a>. It had been a while since I had read the book and I suppose that the only thing which stuck in my mind was that the story was a neat concept which I thought Vic would enjoy. I had forgotten about the unsatisfying d\u00c3\u00a9nouement and the rather slim plotline. Nor could I compare The Business with Banks&#8217; other straight fiction books as I have kept primarily to his science fiction, which he writes under the name Iain M. Banks. I can understand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromewaves.net\/index.php?archive=2002_11_01_chromewaves_archive.html#84253043\">Frank&#8217;s response<\/a> to Vic&#8217;s post and his need to come to the rescue. Unfortunately, the only Iain Banks book which Frank doesn&#8217;t recommend, namely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0349110115\/crazedmonke0d-20\">A Song of Stone<\/a>, is in my reading queue. It&#8217;s a good thing I only paid $7 for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back I recommended Iain Banks&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0349112452\/crazedmonke0d-20\">The Business<\/a> to Vic only to find out that <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0108956\/2002\/11\/06.html#a33\" title=\"Victor Ng's Weblog: Iain Banks' The Business\">he wasn&#8217;t too keen on it<\/a>. It had been a while since I had read the book and I suppose that the only thing which stuck in my mind&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/iain_banks_business.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;Iain Banks recommendations gone wrong&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}