The novel is surprisingly deep for a character to start out so shallow. A very different novel from the first Culture novel and a much more direct plot-line with just as much of a great touch when it comes to the ebb and flow of the story. Very amusing satire that is only given a light touch, thank ...
Gurgeh is the top player of games on his planet. He avidly seeks out new games, determined to master them all. He's good. He's brilliant. He's also arrogant, annoying, and just a little bit bored - and vulnerable to manipulation.When agents of The Culture suggest that he travel to a planet where an ...
Third time I read this book. The odd thing about Iain M Banks books is how I remember very little about the story line or characters - which allows me to re-read the books almost as if it were the first time - and get the same enjoyment from it. I do find he gets a bit obsessive - sometimes about sp...
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this one. I don't normally think of myself as a huge Banks fan, but I just thought this was sheer pleasure from start to finish.There is a rich sense of how life works under the Culture which I did not get from Consider Phlebas; and for me, the focus on a small...
This is the second Culture book I've read. The first was Excession, which was decidedly not the book to start with. I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. Of course, the second one I ended up picking up wasn't the first book in the series either, but at least it was the second. And much more accessi...
I'd been putting off reading this next book in the Culture series. I remembered starting it at University, not getting on with it, and giving up. But, as part of my decision to read the series from the start, in the correct order, it was something I couldn't put off forever. Turns out this was a stu...
A tale of two civilizations: one, the hegemony known as the Culture, the other, a repressive social order, the Azad.The Culture, an AI-ruled Utopia, is cold and sterile, echoes of [a:Isaac Asimov|16667|Isaac Asimov|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1341965730p2/16667.jpg]'s [b:Foundation|29579|Foundati...
My third Culture book, a series of epic space opera about a post-scarcity human society in the far future. If you are not familiar with this series you may want to read this Wikipedia entry first and come back (or not, as you prefer). I love [b:Consider Phlebas|8935689|Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)...
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