Richard Baker wrote: Jim said: >>Now, is that among true Banks fans? It certainly sounds like people >>without a predisposition to like Banks aren't so fond of it. Is >>there something about it that is that off-putting? > >I think that lots of people think it's horrible because of certain >revelations during the course of the book, rather than because of >plot, characterisation, pacing and so forth. I think, more than any >of the others, it shows us the sorts of things on which the Culture >is founded, and the price of its utopia. Reading it for the first >time is, at times, like running off a cliff.
So it's the kind of thing where, in order to preserve their way of life, they compromise their principles? The old "Our government does things we think only the bad guys do" kind of thing? Jim _______________________________________________ <font size=2 face=geneva><b>Join Excite! - <a href=http://www.excite.com target=_blank>http://www.excite.com</a></b> The most personalized portal on the Web!</font> _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
