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Original Title:	The Bridge
ISBN:	0316858544 (ISBN13: 9780316858540)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	John Orr
Literary Awards:	Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Foreign Novel (1991)

The Bridge

Iain Banks

Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 10273 Users | 318 Reviews

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A darkly brilliant novel of self-discovery the cutting edge of experimental fiction. It leads from nowhere to nowhere, the mysterious world-spanning structure on which everyone seems to live. Rescued from the sea, devoid of personality or memory, all John Orr knows is the Bridge, his persistent dreams of war, and his desire for Chief Engineer Arrol's provocative daughter, Abberlaine.

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Title	:	The Bridge
Author	:	Iain Banks
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	July 5th 2001 by Little, Brown (first published 1986)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Contemporary

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Ratings: 3.85 From 10273 Users | 318 Reviews

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This is, first and foremost, a love story. As a confessed Romantic, this is my favorite Iain M. Banks book. But it is much more than a love story, even if it is one that resonates very powerfully on me. It is also a vision on the wonders and depths of human fantasy, and how everyone of us holds the potential for wonder. In a way it is Whitman's quote given form:Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)And I love Bridges, and have a special spot

This review contains a mild spoiler. I don't know if you can call it a spoiler, because the Amazon book description as well as the Publishers Weekly review both give it away. I think that's a crying shame, although it's not really a spoiler that would take a lot of brain cells to figure out on your own. Anyway, I wouldn't mention it in my review if it weren't a key reason why I disliked the novel. Are you ready? Here it is:It's all a dream.Sigh. This book was written 25 years ago, but even then

Well good gosh golly dang.I don't know if I want to spoil too much about the story here so I'll get this out of the way and say that you should probably read this book. It's just so... weird. And wonderful. And kinda in that slow plodding kind of book that I like but at the same time so full of little things and such a fast pace that it makes it hard not to like it. There's a bunch of different writing styles that come up at seemingly random that all manage to work their way into the plot and

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who expects to find meaning, connection or even a direct plot. Except for what is obvious, there is not much going for the book, plot-wise. Man goes into coma. Man must come out of it. Everything else, in between, is engaging, yet deeply un-meaningful. People who want to analyse and interpret the world of dreams might just have a field day with this book. But someone more astute to practical reasoning might just not be. There is nothing - I feel - deeply

A fantastic experience that's clearly a dream yet the story is reminiscent of everything we all have to deal with in the real world every day.A dream that's clearly the real world yet the story is too lovely to be real, and too painful not to be.Dreams that are dreams within dreams that may hold meaning but it's hidden from me.Read it. You may regret it. But you won't forget it.

Over long, readable enough if pretty frustrating. I get the feeling Banks was reaching a bit with this one. The central conceit is obvious from very early on, which prompts the reader to look for meaning in the structure, in the representation of the fictional world-building. But what there is seems dragged out with little end point and too much extraneous guff. Which is a shame, as various aspects of the set up are interesting enough on their own. They just don't sit together in any apparently