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Consider Phlebas - 10. The Command System: Batholith *no spoilers*
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Jun 19, 2011 12:51PM
Sounds like Basolisk with a lithp.
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I really felt the tension ramping up here. Banks didn't even have to say claustrophobic for me to already be feeling it in those tunnels, which are pretty cool, I must say.
Brad wrote: "Sounds like Basolisk with a lithp."Hahahaha! Three Iridan thumbs up for the joke.
Thanks, Cindy. I felt a whole lot like my lame Dad when I wrote that in. Next thing you know I'll be wearing black socks while mowing the lawn (thanks the gods Erika mows the lawn. I do the laundry instead). Love the Iridan thumbs ;)
As long as you don't start shouting at kids whilst mowing the lawn in the outfit, you'll be fine.After I wrote that, I began to wonder if Idirans even have thumbs? They don't have three arms - didn't the third arm turn into the chest flap that makes a noise?
I did a quick search on Google Images, and there is a lot of fan art out there of people trying to imagine the Idirans.
Speaking of which - it's really these sections that gave me a much better idea of the alien-ness of the Idirans. Banks had to go in much more detail about their keratin armor, their resilience, and cleverness.
I really love the appendix for that too (is it actually called an appendix? I don't have the book handy). I am going to look for that fan art to see if it matches what I see in my mind.
wow, in this chapter, horza really lets his true colors hang all out. he slags off machines ("they"ll do what they're told", "machines ought to know their place"), balveda (enjoying the thought of shooting her before pitching her down a shaft, teasing her about morning grumpies), most of the rest of the idirans besides HIS idiran...he's an ass for most of this chapter, right up until he makes a conscious decision not to be. (view spoiler)
I think I like just about any other character ... but Horza. :)
The only character I actually liked was the little droid/bot/mind/fixer guy. I can't remember his name.
You really didn't like this book, did you Ala? You've inspired a new thread.
Ala wrote: "The only character I actually liked was the little droid/bot/mind/fixer guy. I can't remember his name."me too!
You guys! You didn't like Jabba the Cannibal?!
i think "slowly ate someone to death while drowning him in excrement" is about where i checked out of the novel...
Joel, Brad, I'm horrified. "promoted to wife"?!?! that's worse than chapter 1...
I have to come to Joel's defense here. Ceridwen and Elizabeth assigned it, and what could we do? (yes ... i read it too).
Did you two piss them off or something? Was this some form of payback?
I don't know about Joel, but I entered the punishment willingly ;)
sometimes i get drunk and join goodreads bookgroups, and they make me read books with bared male chests on the cover.
Brad wrote: "I have to come to Joel's defense here. Ceridwen and Elizabeth assigned it, and what could we do? (yes ... i read it too)."
Godamn it, I DID NOT assign that book. That was democracy screwing you over. Someone else even came up with the poll choices.
Godamn it, I DID NOT assign that book. That was democracy screwing you over. Someone else even came up with the poll choices.
I also got plenty of payback in the form of reading it myself. So.bad.
Huh. Sorry I'm all up in the thread not talking about Phlebus. I think I even own this. Maybe I'll join in later.
Huh. Sorry I'm all up in the thread not talking about Phlebus. I think I even own this. Maybe I'll join in later.
i can't wait to hear what you think about the cannibalism and excrement-drowning scene!
It is seriously yuck. But kinda amazing in its way. Did we all vote on Promoted to Wife?? So that was the fault of everyone? Yikes.
Yeah, I hate us. Why are we so mean to ourselves?
I think I changed my vote once for the cowboy book and then went back to Promoted to Wife. I could mock myself, but really ... would any of them have been better?
So... you really punished yourselves?
You've all got some issues, man.
You've all got some issues, man.
They're not all so bad. Some are even good-ish.
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