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A goodbye letter to the world and all of its wonder and terror.
— Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net
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Some of the funniest writing Banks has ever produced. A writer who has the rare gift of being infallibly entertaining.
— The Telegraph
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It's the testimony of a writer refusing to go quietly, Iain Banks has got the last word.
— The Sunday Times
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The Quarry is a satisfying end to a fine writing career.
— Sunday Express
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The Quarry is an honorable finale to an exciting career.
— The Guardian
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This is a novel that's perched at the dangerous edge of things, looking down. It's an urgent novel and an important one.
— The Observer
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Iain Banks's gift to us over nearly 30 books, a brilliant, piercing depiction of just how funny, stupid, pointless, infuriating, glorious, mind-bending, and inane life can be. And that's why he's been a constant inspiration to me as a novelist and a human being.
— Independent on Sunday
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A powerful and affecting book. The Quarry reaches a pitch of emotion that only a reader made of granite could read without tears.
— Sunday Herald
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The Quarry is...a novel shot through with Banks's trademark humor, political engagement, and hope.
— The Times, Book of the Week
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In Banks we had a novelist of supreme subtlety and one who...had an irrepressible sense of fun, that is evident on every page of The Quarry.
— The Independent
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Remarkable.
— The Scotsman
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A compelling, raw book. Well-told, like all his books.
— Evening Standard
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This is vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy, and vitriol, and is sure to delight his fans.
— Sunday Mirror
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With its deadpan teen narrator and stern rural backdrop, it is hard not to find in The Quarry a trace of Banks's enduring debut novel The Wasp Factory and with it the closing of a literary circle... The Quarry is a fitting valediction.
— TLS, review
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Banks was an extraordinary writer; in straight literary fiction and in his science fiction novels, he engaged the world with passion... For good reason, Banks's many fans will devour this book.
— Library Journal