Tag Archives: Banks

Reread: The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks

Posted on 06/10/2019 by Roseanna

This is a quick one, because my opinion basically hasn’t changed on rereading it, please pardon the… somewhat clunkier prose of the me of three years ago. I reread it for book club, but honestly, it was quite nice to … Continue reading →

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Consider Phlebas – Iain M. Banks

Posted on 31/07/2019 by Roseanna

Having finally finished all the Culture novels – and soon intending to read Player of Games again for book club – I decided it was time to reread the one I disliked the first time round, and led to me not reading … Continue reading →

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Inversions – Iain M. Banks

Posted on 13/01/2019 by Roseanna

I thought I’d read all the Culture novels… and I kinda had. But I needed something appealing to kick me out of the “but I could just keep… reading Cadfael?” streak, and a bit of Banks SF was a clear … Continue reading →

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Surface Detail – Ian M. Banks

Posted on 09/09/2017 by Roseanna

It’s been a while since the last Banks novel, so I figured I’d keep working my way through them. And it’s sometimes nice to have something to read that you know you’re going to get on with, rather than a … Continue reading →

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Matter – Iain M. Banks

Posted on 27/12/2016 by Roseanna

And another Culture novel. This one is possibly simultaneously possibly my most and least favourite of these, simply because it feels the least like a Banks novel and most like… well, any other adventurey, spacey SF novel. Early on, I … Continue reading →

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Look to Windward – Iain M. Banks

Posted on 17/11/2016 by Roseanna

As is always best in these things, I read the whole of this book today. I tend to think I judge books better when I don’t have gaps, because I am fairly easily distracted, and also coming to it on … Continue reading →

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Excession – Iain M. Banks

Posted on 08/09/2016 by Roseanna

This was a weird one. My main impression having finished it is that the story it told isn’t the story I was expecting in the first quarter of the book. And it kept not being the story I was expecting … Continue reading →

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Use of Weapons – Iain M. Banks

Posted on 06/08/2016 by Roseanna

It’s never good for my discussion of a book when I take too long to read it. I don’t read slowly, as a rule, and I’m scatterbrained enough that, by the end of a week, I may be a bit … Continue reading →

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The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks

Posted on 25/07/2016 by Roseanna

I’ve read one culture novel before – Consider Phlebas – about six years ago. To say I disliked it would probably be an understatement. My memory of it is a bit fuzzy this far on, but the main thing I remember … Continue reading →

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