I really wanted to like this book, I promise. It's a great premise, and Banks' fiction work is great. But I found the book boring. There's not all that much about whisky or distilleries, other than a seemingly endless count of passages that read something like "We woke up that morning and had another large breakfast at the Hogsbreath Inn, then went to visit Quoylesly, Bruighbladdach, and Dinglefoot distilleries. Let me tell you about this time I passed another car in my M5 before meeting up with more friends to drink beer and whisky....." There's no coherent narrative (yes, I am aware it is non-fiction), many of the anecdotes are just boring, I lost track of the names of all of his friends and relations. I sympathized with his anti-war sentiment, but his attitudes seemed mildly hypocritical given that he's driving around a bunch of fuel-hogs. I don't know, the book just wasn't worth it, so I stopped reading...Get more detail about Raw Spirit.
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