Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

Posted on 04 November 2018 by Iain M. Banks

The war raged across the galaxy Billions had died, billions were doomed Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold blooded, brutal, and worse, random The Idirans fought for their Faith the Culture for its moral right to exist Principles were at stake There could be no surrender.Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction. Free Read [ Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) ] By [ Iain M. Banks ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Welcome to another edition of Notable Genre Author Fails to Impress Some Guy on the Internet , I ll be your host some guy Like so many highly lauded authors featured here, Banks has been haunting my shelf for quite some time now Countless are the times I have passed this book before bed, letting my eyes linger longingly on the spine, relishing the notion that I will actually read this book, some day There have even been those occasions where I thumbed it down, peering at the cover, carefull Welcome to another edition of Notable Genre Author Fails to Impress Some Guy on the Internet , I ll be your host some guy Like so many highly lauded authors featured here, Banks has been haunting my shelf for quite some time now Countless are the times I have passed this book before bed, letting my eyes linger longingly on the spine, relishing the notion that I will actually read this book, some day There have even been those occasions where I thumbed it down, peering at the cover, carefully comparing it to others, knowing that I must be the final arbiter of posterity to choose one, eschewing all others to a cruel and unknown future.As always I was prepared to be impressed, or even blown away, and to tell the truth, it started off ...Many discerning readers, even ones who like SF, will reflexively sneer if you say the dreaded words space opera One need only think of E.E Doc Smith, for a long time the unquestioned king of this particular sub genre I read Galactic Patrol when I was at primary school like innumerable other geeky nine year olds, I adored it, and particularly loved the Helmuth speaking for Boskone tagline I also remember how, aged 12 or 13, I picked it up to see if the magic was still there Oh dear It Many discerning readers, even ones who like SF, will reflexively sneer if you say the dreaded words space opera One need only think of E.E Doc Smith, fo...And today, mine is going to be unpopular But remember the advice from 9th grade Advanced English teacher Mrs Muench about metaphors Or maybe I mean false equivalency Regardless you are not what you like If I dislike something you love, I am not dislikingyou. But you may not want to read my review, friends who love this book Consider Phlebas is classic sci fi that I missed growing up Periodically, I try to exercise my genre core, and it was with a bit of read harder spirit that I picke And today, mine is going to be unpopular But remember the advice from 9th grade Advanced English teacher Mrs Muench about metaphors Or maybe I mean false equivalency Regardless you are not what you like If I dislike something you love, I am not dislikin...Consider Iain M Banks an unsentimental, often ruthless writer his characters are provided robust emotional lives and richly detailed backgrounds all the better to punish the reader when those characters meet their often bleak fates his narratives are ornate affairs, elaborately designed, full of small meaningful moments as well as huge, wide scale world buildingall the better to deliver a sucker punch directly to the reader s gut when those narratives turn out to be ironic, prede Consider Iain M Banks an unsentimental, often ruthless writer his characters are provided robust emotional lives and richly detailed backgrounds all the better to punish the reader when those characters meet their often bleak fates his narratives are ornate affairs, elaborately designed, full of small meaningful moments as well as huge, wide scale world buildingall the better to deliver a sucker punch directly to the reader s gut when those narratives turn out to be ironic, predetermined mousetraps yet despite the cruelly intelligent design of his novels, a strong case can be made that Banks is a fiery humanist if the idea of humanism is expanded to include all forms of consciousness, including the psychologically aberrant, including artificial minds is there a genre specialist who is apassionate yet clear eyed even cold eyed partisan for the right of all conscious beings to pursue their own individual desires, dreams, and destinies while not fucking up the ...I can t really say much, other than Iain Banks has become my 1 favorite Sci Fi author I love the way he fleshes out flawed, believable characters in a Space Opera setting I m always surprised by his writing, and that keeps me coming back forIf you re not into the genre, but want...This is the second Culture book I read but the first one Iain M Banks wrote One of us did something wrong, because I liked The Player of Games a lot , and yet my reasons for not liking Consider Phlebas are almost all about what the book isn t.It isn t about the Culture, for one thing Sort of Not really The other books in the series are from the perspective of a citizen of the Culture, which is difficult to define succinctly so I will just say, imagine if you lived in a universe where yo This is the second Culture book I read but the first one Iain M Banks wrote One of us did something wrong, because I liked The Player of Games a lot , and yet my reasons for not liking Consider Phlebas are almost all about what the book isn t.It isn t about the Culture, for one thing Sort of Not really The other books in the series are from the perspective of a citizen of the Culture, which is difficult to define succinctly so I will just say, imagine if you lived in a universe where you were practically immortal and super smart robots took care of pretty much everything, leaving you free to live your own life to the fullest existential ...Two stars is about right.Voltaire said something like the best is the enemy of the good okay, he actually said le mieux est l ennemi du bien But what is really annoying is that the coulda been good isdisappointing than the meh.Banks clearly has a great deal of imagination If he was able to discipline himself, he d have some four star stuff going on here, easily maybe better.But he fritters away his energy on irrelevant grotesquerr...I read all of Iain Banks Culture books in order in which they were written, beginning with Consider Phlebas and ending with the latest, Surface Detail, from 2008 through 2010 Consider Phlebas being the first Culture book Banks wrote, it was the first I read back in the Spring of 2008 I liked it One might even say I liked it a lot But I didn t love it Not yet.I jus...Be warned This book is hard core, gateway reading crack Science fiction loving readers will be incurably hooked, staying up late, letting their social life decay and cravenly devouring all the Iain M Banks they can get their hands on in a desperate, sleep deprived book orgy Well, that s what happened to me anyway As is obvious, I loved this book Consider Phlebas is everything I want in science fiction, and it is where my passionate love of Iain Banks work began This is big concept, spraw Be warned This book is hard core, gateway reading crack Science fiction loving readers will be incurably hooked, staying up late, letting their social life decay and cravenly devouring all the Iain M Banks they can get their hands on in a desperate, sleep deprived book orgy Well, that s what happened to me anyway As is obvious, I loved this book Consider Phlebas is everything I want in science fiction, and it is where my passionate love of Iain Banks work began This is big concept, sprawling stuff, and Banks has both the imaginative chops and the writing skills to make it a must read.The central characte...You re ruled by your machines You re an evolutionary dead end The trouble is that to take your mind off it you try to drag everybody else down there with you Back to the beginning Consider Phlebas is the first book of the Culture series ten volumes in total, I believe , one of the most beloved sci fi book series ever, written by the late great Iain M Banks, feel free to confuse him with the equally late and great Iain Banks, who is indeed the same writer but is described as a literaryYou re ruled by your machines You re an evolutionary dead end The trouble is that to take your mind off it you try to drag everybody else down there with you Back to the beginning Consider Phlebas is the first book of the Culture series ten volumes in total, I believe , one of the most beloved sci fi book series ever, written by the late great Iain M Banks, feel free to confuse him with the equally late and great Iain Banks, who is indeed the same writer but is described as a literary novelist and wrote mainstream non sci fi books It is not surprising then that this series has ...

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04 November 2018

Iain M. Banks