Iain Banks is too patronising and easy going. He obviously wants to be known as a Scottish writer without expect Scottish people to read the book.

The story was a bit thin on the ground, and the twist was unfortunately too predictable. Shame the characters didn't make up for it themselves, the lead just kept going on and on about his cousin. yuk. it got quite tedious by the end

Prob the last Iain Banks book I'll read as I get the impression most of his books are like this (The Business was). Patronisingly simple and thin on story/character development. Shame.