Book cover meme: Day 3

[swordznsorcery]

Look, I've managed Day Three! Now if only I could manage to do this daily, I might finish the meme before the lockdown ends. (In August.)

Book Three is The Crow Road, by Iain Banks. A very prolific author (he also wrote sci-fi as Iain M Banks, so seemed to produce two books for everybody else's one), I do find his output a bit hit or miss, but this one I absolutely love. I first met it as a BBC adaptation in the nineties, watched at university on my tiny black and white. Tried the book some time later, and it was great too.

The series is out on DVD. I'd recommend both.

Comments

[corvidology]

Love the cover and I've enjoyed the Banks books I've read. :D

[swordznsorcery]

It is a good cover. That's the '90s version of course. Current publication isn't nearly as eye-catching.

[pedanther]

I really should get around to watching the series one of these days. I loved the book, and the series has some of my favourite Scottish actors in it.

[swordznsorcery]

It has a great cast. The DVD comes with a few nice extras, including input from Banks, who apparently really loved the series. He called it "Annoyingly better than the book"!

[liadt]

I loved all those Iain Banks covers back in the day. Never read any of them though!

[swordznsorcery]

I think you'd like a fair few of them. Some of them are blinking weird though!

[dimity_blue]

"A very prolific author (he also wrote sci-fi as Iain M Banks, so seemed to produce two books for everybody else's one)"

Heh, I find it annoying people write so many books they need pseudonyms when I can't even finish one book!

Though Iain Banks vs. Iain M. Banks isn't much of a secret identity.

[swordznsorcery]

It's not, is it. :D