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  • 10-10-2000 1:41pm
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    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭



    read the business by ian banks the other day.
    wasnt impressed in the slightest.
    heard so much about him as an author but that was just muck.
    is this a once off or a bad read? does he have better?


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    Shinji
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭Shinji


    Try reading some of his stuff written as Iain M Banks as opposed to Iain Banks; his science fiction is a lot better than his "normal" fiction, imo.


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    Excelsior
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    it isnt good.
    all his other suff is.
    try his Wasp Factory novel.


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    LoLth
    Registered Users Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    Wasp factory was ****ed up... good, but very weird.

    Definitely I prefer his Sci-fi to his normal fiction, consider Phlebas, State of the Art, Excession and in particular Player of Games.

    The Bridge is another non-sci-fi one, as well as song of stone.

    Haven't read the factory so I don't know if it's just a bad read, or you just don't like his style of writing...


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    Shinji
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭Shinji


    Player of Games does nasty things to your head, especially towards the end. Banks has some, uhh, interesting imagery going on there.


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