Fave Culture Novel/ Story (Iain M Banks)

[Dave]

Fave Culture Novel/ Story.

I haven't read them all yet. But Use of Weapons is the best that I've read, I especially liked the twist at the end, which I hadn't completely guessed at.

 

[Tabitha]

Use of Weapons (that is the one with the chair on the front cover, isn't it?) is probably my favourite, but I will need to reacquaint myself with what happened in the others before I vote.

Back soon!

 

[Dave]

Yes, the chair is an important part of the story.

Sorry, that is quite possibly a spoiler

 

[Dave]

*having read Against a Dark Background and Feersum Endjinn now, I realise they are not actually 'Culture' stories.

 

[Dave]

Brian is going to close this one as it's another thread with a mixed-up poll!

 

[Cricket - Best Sport]

Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Inversions
Excession

in descending order.

 

[Lyrebird]

Of those I've read, "Excession", which was my first! Had me totally hooked. The others didn't make quite such an impression, though, from what I hear, I guess that may be 'cause I've not yet read "The Player of Games" and "Use of Weapons". Looking forward to it. "Feersum Endjinn" wasn't bad either.

 

[Lyrebird]

Well, this thread still seems to have the wrong poll, and who's Leolas, anyway?

 

[Dave]

When threads with polls were migrated from AScifi to Chronicles all the polls got mixed up. Brian closed down all those threads but he must have missed this one. Leolas is a (mis-spelt) Legolas from Lord of the Rings. You can see where that poll came from. I'm going to close this thread now, but please start another if you wish with a correct poll.