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This is still one of the best opening books to a series from probably the best Sci-Fi writer, I really miss him. I have read this 3 times now, it never loses it's magic. The emergence of 'Minds' is a joy!!
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Another book martyred to the work-commute-audiobook cause. I need to make a new shelf for these poor audiobook listens that leave me pretty nonplussed afterwards, because I manage to miss so much. And for the confused reviews that result.
I chose Consider Phlebas because I'd read the first hundred pages or so at one point in my life, and had meant to finish reading it since then. The scene where Horza is still in old-man (gerontocrat) form but has to fight to the death to earn his place on a p ...more
I chose Consider Phlebas because I'd read the first hundred pages or so at one point in my life, and had meant to finish reading it since then. The scene where Horza is still in old-man (gerontocrat) form but has to fight to the death to earn his place on a p ...more
I really wanted to enjoy this. I'd been a huge fan of Iain Banks fiction during my teens and early twenties, and having become some what of a science fiction fan over the last few years I had high hopes for his culture series. I had already read Player of Games and sure, it was 'okay', but certainly not the best science fiction I had read lately. I then read Excession and I actually really enjoyed it. Okay, I thought, I'll go back to the beginning of the series and give it all another go. Nope.
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Der erste Band der Culture-Reihe, aber (hoffentlich) nicht der beste. Viel unübersichtliche Action, aber ab und an blitzt die Faszination, die den späteren Bänden zugeschrieben wird, durch...
Apr 20, 2012
Tam Linsey
marked it as to-read
May 31, 2012
Whitman
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Feb 06, 2013
Gianni
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Maria
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