I love Iain Banks as an author and as a human being (may he rest in peace) and it is only my usual dislike for science fiction (with a few feminist exceptions) that discouraged me from picking up this book earlier. I should not be surprised that it's a book about weapons, war and masculine pursuit...
Series: Culture #3 I'm still not a fan of this book, although the twist at the end made me less mad this time around. It actually starts off in a fairly promising fashion, as a kind of sci-fi romp that follows this guy skilled at war and who basically hires himself out as a mercenary. Sort of. B...
From the moment I picked up the Culture books eons ago they changed the way I viewed the natural world around me, adding a layer of mysticism to every tree, every rock and every hill; along with a wonderment of what untold stories each has born witness too. think it's often a combination of the book...
Series: Culture #3 Well that was disappointing. I was tempted to give it 3 stars overall while reading (before I got to the end) since although the present-day chapters were fairly interesting, the past chapters were duller and sometimes maudlin. Then I got to the “twist” at the end and was disapp...
This is the fourth book I have read by Banks after The Player of Games, Consider Philebas and The Wasp Factory. Despite the fact that this is a Culture novel the most useful comparison is not with the other two Culture Science Fiction novels, but with his non-science fiction novel The Wasp Factory....
Use of Weapons (Culture) by Iain M. Banks “There are two stories, but you know most of one of them. I’ll tell them at the same time; see if you can tell which is which.” The hyper-advanced civilization that calls itself "The Culture" views itself as thoroughly utopian: post-scarcity, anarchistic y...
I'm now wishing I hadn't started the Culture books with Consider Phlebas. Weapons is a much stronger novel in terms of plot, themes, and characterization. Per the huge plot twist everyone talks about: I sort of figured it out so I wasn't terribly surprised and to be honest I didn't entirely buy it...
4.5 Stars. I know it's going to sound weird, but this is possibly one of my most favorite books ever, but I can't bring myself to say "5-stars-wow." I'll explain that in a bit.Apparently (I did some googling after finishing this book), this was Banks's first Culture novel written, even though it ...
I could not bring myself to care for the protagonist, was bored by the flashbacks and didn't quite get it. But it's a Culture novel and I loved it anyway.
Continuing my efforts to read the Culture series, from the beginning, in the correct order, I've reached the third book in the series – [b:Use of Weapons|12007|Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)|Iain M. Banks|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347522037s/12007.jpg|1494156]. In this novel, [a:Iain M. Banks|5807...
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