Someone wrote:
...
> >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
Not quite. The Culture didn't actually do the bad things
in _Use of Weapons_. But Banks has written some pretty dark books,
things that might easily cause depression in the reader. UoW is
the most depressing one I've read.
---David
Start with _Player of Games_.
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