Just finished Use of Weapons, by Iain M Banks.
I like Banks, & I suspect he lavished more time & effort on his SF than his non-SF work, but he still wrote too much, too quickly. The structure was an effective complement to the narrative, but there were too many longeurs, too much padding. 250 pages would have been more effective than 400.
Anyway, it's holiday time, so I have a pile of books at my side - first off, The Night of the Panthers, by Piergiorgio Pulixi.
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