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Well this is back on my to-re-read list, along with Against A Dark Background and The Crow Road...and The Bridge...trouble is that this list keeps getting longer instead of shorter!
Iain M Banks is dying.
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Posted 14 July 2013 - 10:21 PM
The love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain.
"Perhaps we think up our own destinies and so, in a sense, deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better." ― Iain Banks
"Perhaps we think up our own destinies and so, in a sense, deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better." ― Iain Banks
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Posted 16 July 2013 - 05:26 AM
Una, on 16 July 2013 - 04:24 AM, said:
Yes. Use of Weapons was such a journey, it's going to be one of those books that I regret I will never be able to read for the first time ever again.
Alistair Reynolds and Richard Morgan are very much in the same general tree trunk area as Banks, although they take different branches off. So, if you've not read their books, try them out.
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Posted 16 July 2013 - 06:33 AM
amphibian, on 16 July 2013 - 05:26 AM, said:
Una, on 16 July 2013 - 04:24 AM, said:
Yes. Use of Weapons was such a journey, it's going to be one of those books that I regret I will never be able to read for the first time ever again.
Alistair Reynolds and Richard Morgan are very much in the same general tree trunk area as Banks, although they take different branches off. So, if you've not read their books, try them out.
I read some of Reynolds earlier stuff. Absolution gap and chasm city. I'm sure there was another one too.
They're pretty good right enough.
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Posted 16 July 2013 - 11:00 PM
I went "WHAT?!?!" when I finished Use of Weapons the first time. Not sure any other book I have ever read has made me do that...
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I Scream
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Posted 17 July 2013 - 01:50 AM
Hey there Hinter. How's it going?
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Posted 17 July 2013 - 08:39 PM
Hinter, on 17 July 2013 - 12:58 AM, said:
Banks wrote my top two books of all time - Excession and The Crow Road. There are many other authors in many other genres I enjoy, but life without another Culture novel....
Excession was about as good as Use of Weapons for me - which is pretty high up there. A couple things in it made me think more than anything else I've read lately (the unusually long pregnancy and hegemony of the Culture itself [which is a welcome shift from the stance in Consider Phlebas]).
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Posted 18 July 2013 - 06:20 AM
Tiste Simeon, on 16 July 2013 - 11:00 PM, said:
I went "WHAT?!?!" when I finished Use of Weapons the first time. Not sure any other book I have ever read has made me do that...
Have you read surface detail yet?
"If you seek the crumpled bones of the T'lan Imass,
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
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gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
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Posted 19 July 2013 - 06:17 AM
No not yet, I'm not even sure I have that one...
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Posted 19 July 2013 - 08:42 AM
Well I'm sure you'll get there.
Enjoy, is all I can say.
Enjoy, is all I can say.
"If you seek the crumpled bones of the T'lan Imass,
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
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gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
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