> -----Original Message----- > From: David Hobby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 08:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Banks recommendations > > > 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.
I have to agree, irt The Culture - it's tied with Wasp Factory as most depressing/disturbing of the Banks' books imho. -jeffrey "UoW was my first" miller- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
