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The Steep Approach to Garbadale

By Iain Banks

Narrated By Peter Kenny

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The Wopuld family built their fortune on a board game called Empire, now a wildly successful computer game. So successful, in fact, that the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the Wopulds out. Alban, who has been evading the family tentacles for the last few years, thinks Spraint should be treated with suspicion, but he also has other things on his mind. What, for example, drove his mother to take her own life?

UNABRIDGED 13 hrs and 45 mins
The Steep Approach to Garbadale

UNABRIDGED
- by Iain Banks
- Narrated by Peter Kenny
"Sadly poor research.."

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The book itself was interesting and somewhat entertaining. However, the whole story revolves around not being sure who fathered who, and that is evident from the very beginning.

In the final chapter, as expected, the truth is revealed...
But the assumption that the genetic test needed to prove parenthood is done using sperm rather than a simple skin sample, saliva, blood, or even hair, made me pretty depressed.

Spoiler:
Who on earth would hire a hooker to have sex with a guy to collect his sperm in a condom for genetic testing when the saliva on a glass will do the trick??

Made me think the whole book was a great deal less worthwhile when part of the story is based on a misconception that could so easily have been avoided-

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