Iain Banks - Matter
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I would like the inside of my throat filled and reinforced by carbon fibre foam. Thanks.
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Just finished Matter today. Gripped until all the way through, but couldn't believe how abruptly it ended.
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He is an amazingly talented writer but in the few stories I've read of his, the endings are always a bit disappointing. They are sort of anticlimactic, in "Matter", most of the characters and conflicts you grow to be interested in are really quite irrelevant to the greater story which is hinted at, but only comes to fruition at the very end. I loved how the story started and then built up the tension and anticipation, but in the end my reaction was, huh. That was lame.
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@siasti Have only just discovered Banks. Read Excession, now reading Use of Weapons (nearly finished it last night) and have Algebraist waiting in the wings...I'm a big fan of Greg Bear but I think I prefer Banks. Excession had at least four 'laugh out loud' moments. Favourite ship names are; 'I Blame My Mother' and 'I Blame Your Mother'. Wicked!!
Enjoy.
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@Geekman333 Great names! (Actually, I expected more of a reaction from fans but yours is the only the second reply). I'm currently reading sci-fi novels by Neal Asher. Highly recommended!
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@siasti Serious Hardware, Lost In Translation, Oh Forget It, Don't Ask Me, Praise God And Pass The Ammunition, Marshmallow Shrapnel, That's Amore...these are mine ;-)
Peace (Makes Plenty)
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@xNeverthought Im currently reading Excession (first time) :3 and all I can do is simply agree with you.
MINDBLOWLYING ENJOYABLE <3
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An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations would encounter just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.
Best read i have ever had..
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jUST STARTED READING tRANSITION ON THE TOILET - Thought I'd let you know.
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REally? I'm so surprised he made this. Cos, to me, Matter was hardly funny at all. It, like, was missing that black shit that made Excession so good.
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Ah the master who, from my POV, created the greatest utopian society in all of fiction. If one were to have a choice of heavens in the afterlife, I would choose the Culture...every time. Surely there floats in space a GSV, just beyond the Kuiper Belt, waiting to execute a pick displacement. I'm ready.
Balveda 2 years ago 10
It sort of flounders around a bit I thought by the time I'd finished, it's a cracking book in its own right. But stacked up against Use of Weapons or Look to Windward, it just doesn't reach as high.
Excession is still my personal favourite.
xNeverthought 2 years ago 7