Reading

I have just finished a book that I pre-ordered on Amazon, so I got it as a hardback book, which is some thing I don't normally do but for this author I thought I would take a chance.

I think that this may be one of those occasions were I may have had just a bit of a bad result.

On the book buying side I have no problems, the book was sent to me on time and I must admit that all the price promises that Amazon made where kept, in that there was a price change and I got to have the benefit of it. So thank you Amazon.

Now the book contents part.

I am not too sure on this one, even though I have had some time to think all about it, I still feel as if I have been let down in some way by the author.

The book is by Iain Banks and is call Transition, I will not try to explain the story as I think that, that is one of the problems, Iain has I think tried to do what a lot of other authors have done and that is to write a story from many view points and times.

I don't think to me that he gets it quite right, in that this poor reader was at times feeling left behind, even when I went back to reread the parts that did not make sense.

I don't know if its his use of language or prose, but sometimes it just did not work for me.

I was entertained that I am sure of, its just that I was expecting to have an easier time of getting entertained.

I shall now that I have read the book go and have a look at what others have said about this book, to see if it just me or if there is a perceived problem with it.