Disinterest

Little interest in this book: the story is both too long and too fragmented. 500 pages to gather the pieces and give coherence to the whole, that's as many pages where you can get bored. The characters do not interest me, the bitch is boring, dialogues between the soldier and the robot are ridiculous (schoolboys bickering).

Iain Banks is a talented writer, with very successful scenes, but he keeps his bad stories about life: it's long, it slows down. Here, in addition, we understand nothing, even by the admission of the preface suggesting a second time to read the book from the end (!) To understand something! It's a little crazy to get there I think. In short, I am not reached the end (it seems that there is an exceptional final revelation, but I confess that I do not care less about the characters and the outcome).