Entertainment For Lively Minds
Iain Banks - Transition. Free Audiobook
Posted by Leedsboy on 9 November 2009 - 11:49pm.
You can get the abridged version audiobook of Iain Banks new novel Transition from iTunes here -> http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=3292955...
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Have you tried it yet, Lee?
I've listened to the first two episodes twice now and struggled to get into it.
Having said that, the first time I tried was while on the treadmill in the gym under a very loud speaker, and the second was on a crowded train from Birmingham to Liverpool at the end of a long, busy day and I fell asleep. So it's probably my fault; but, if it was good, wouldn't it have grabbed my attention whatever the situation?
I've still got all 20 episodes (so far) on my iPod and will give it another try, but I don't hold out much hope. It would be fantastic if you were to tell me that I should...
No
I have always shied away from his work but thought this was the ideal opportunity to give it a go. Am waiting for a car journey worth its salt to try it.
Don't say that,
David, I too have it sitting ready to accompany me on my Liverpool half marathon training which starts tomorrow (the hills of Childwall, alas).
I have never read his sci-fi but this was billed as a nice half way house with his (literary) fiction.
Anyone else read or listened to it yet?
Having read it (old-fashioned stylee)
I wasn't impressed. And I speak as someone who loves the Banks. I thought The Algebraist was a work of cunning genius. But Transition left me very 'meh'.
And I have been downloading the podcast. Didn't listen until I read it, traditionalist that I am.
I've read it
And found it incomprehensible.