Just finished re-reading... [new review to follow]First Read (2003): ★★★★★ This was the first Iain M Banks book I read many years ago now, and I fell in love with it. I loved the personal symbology that the boy developed and practiced - that's mostly what sticks in my mind years later. I read The Crow Road straight afterwards and kept waiting for something interesting to happen, but it just didn't. I was sorely disappointed.