> >Is it time for a re-ranking of Banks' books? I think so...
> >
> >Favourite first.
> >
> >1 P[layer of] G[ames]
> >2 U[se of] W[eapons]
> >3 C[onsider] P[hlebas]
> >4 E[xcession]
> >5 L[ook to] W[indward]
> >6 S[tate of] t[he] A[rt]
> >7 I[nversions]
> >
> >However, it's only really PoG that is far and away my fave, the others
exist
> >on a plane of "really rather good"...
> >
> >Charlie
>
> I think _Inversions_ deserves much higher rank. But then it wasn't
> until the second reading that I realized just what the doctor *meant*
> when she said that she had "done such horrible things..."
That's only the order of personal preference. And, as I said, I do like them
all. Need to reread them all, actually. But my copies of CP, UoW and SotA
are AWOL. :o((((
> And I still want to know: Does _Player of Games_ have a happy ending?
> I can't decide...
Depends. Gurgeh seems to have accepted himself, and Yay seems to have
accepted Gurgeh for himself too. So, all's well that ends well. Maybe that's
a little pat. <shrug>
Charlie
