----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:27 AM Subject: Re: Culture and Banks [I made a bank shot to start all this]
> Andy said: > > > Can't say I've read any of his. Good starting books? > > I think that the best places to start reading his Culture books are _The > Player of Games_ and _Use of Weapons_. Other people would argue for > _Consider Phlebas_ but I think that's too long, incoherent and not very > good on balance (it's the only Banks novel I've tried to read a second > time and been unable to finish). My favourite of his non-sf books are > _The Bridge_ and _Walking on Glass_ (which are both sf/fantasy > flavoured) and _The Crow Road_ (which is a long, warm family saga). > > [The Culture's Grand Moral Debates] > > > Yeah, you mean the one which made me /lurk on here? :P > > They don't tend to run for longer than a few days, but while they're > running they can get pretty intense. Although, now that I think about > it, we haven't had one for a while. At the moment we seem to be talking > about whether a strong EU is good or bad for the US and whether steel > subsidies are a good thing. > > > Who's over there who's no longer here anyway? > > I'm not sure who's no longer here, but the people the Culture recruited > from Brin-L include: Charlie Bell, Jean-Louis Couturier, Brad DeLong, > Jon Gabriel, David Hobby, Adrian Hon, Ritu Ko, Jeffrey Miller, Rob > Seeberger, Gord Sellar, and Evan Vetere. I'm sure I've missed some too. > Kat Feete defected as well, but she doesn't seem to have had enough time > for the list for a while. > > In contrast, I seem to be the only person who's visited Brin-L from the > Culture and ended up staying. > I think Rik is hiding in here somewhere. xponent Charged Maru rob
