Book: Against a Dark Background
Aug. 1st, 2006 08:17 pmAuthor: Iain M Banks
Details: (c) Iain M Banks 1993; Pub Orbit 1995; ISBN 1-85723-179-1
Verdict: Against a Dark Background is emotionally powerful but not really my thing.
Reasons for reading it: I was wildly enthusiastic about The player of games, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lethargic_man admonished me that I shouldn't go off and read everything of Banks' I could get my hands on, as the quality is mixed. So when he happened to be with me in a charity shop that had a fair number of Banks' SF books available, I was able to get him to remind me which were worth having, and he pointed me to this.
How it came into my hands: I went on a shopping spree in the big Oxfam Books in Cambridge last month.
( detailed review )
Details: (c) Iain M Banks 1993; Pub Orbit 1995; ISBN 1-85723-179-1
Verdict: Against a Dark Background is emotionally powerful but not really my thing.
Reasons for reading it: I was wildly enthusiastic about The player of games, and
lethargic_man admonished me that I shouldn't go off and read everything of Banks' I could get my hands on, as the quality is mixed. So when he happened to be with me in a charity shop that had a fair number of Banks' SF books available, I was able to get him to remind me which were worth having, and he pointed me to this.How it came into my hands: I went on a shopping spree in the big Oxfam Books in Cambridge last month.
( detailed review )
