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Thinking that it maybe was about time for something not so spectacular, I grabbed this book by Iain Not-M Banks while I was at the bookstore (getting The Naked God). Good thing. Even with it's high finance setting and international business milieu, The Business is the most quiet and laid back book I've ever read by Banks. This is mostly because of the main character Kate Telman, who's just so nice, and warm and understandable …

…There's a lot more to the story, but no as much as one might have hoped. Lot's of zipping around the world and talking to people with way too much money and definitely too much power, but somehow I had a feeling that Banks didn't know Kate well enough before he started out on this story. Oh, the story is great, but I could have used just a bit more depth of character in Kate.