Klik på en miniature for at gå til Google Books
Indlæser... Matter (udgave 2008)af Iain M. Banks
Work InformationMatter af Iain M. Banks
Indlæser...
Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog.
The biggest exposition galore I've seen. Even by the Culture series I think it is too much. It's not bad it's just exposition. It's like other side of "Look to Windward", where it was too much about life on orbitals and here it's about mostly low tech societies. The revenge theme is the same, the mistakes and stupidity theme is the same, the freedom of choice versus choice theme is the same... and much much more. I can't love this book, it just did not connected. Probably because of this too long exposition at the cost of characters and climax part. But what I should note is this... There is still no other series that brings "individuality" issue in the sci-fi to such heights. Even here Banks manages to show that the most prised quality of Culture is individuality. Let's have a confession first. This is my first Culture novel ever, and my very first book by Iain M. Banks. Why is that, you may ask? Well, x years ago I happened to pick up one of his books (can't remember which one) at a bookstore. I read a couple of pages, did not understand anything and put it back in disgust. Since then I had the words "this is not my kind of author and I'm not reading anything by him ever" imprinted in my brain. Now I don't know what said brain was thinking. Thank you, book club! - This is great space opera: I loved the scope, the ideas, the very weird aliens (I wish there was a chance to see more of them though). - The characters were terrific. - I enjoyed the writing style, the dialogues were especially masterfully done. I just had a couple of minor complaints: - There was a certain quality to the writing that made the reading rather slow, I kept getting distracted. - When it comes to plot, it felt like there was too much build-up and too little resolution. Anyway, I am very happy I got over my prejudices. I am now ready to read more Culture books :-) I feel almost churlish complaining about this but like it just... ends? It's a pretty long book and then the ending just comes with no explanation, leaving a decent amount unresolved. It reminds me most of the first book in the series, I think. The lead up to it is interesting - the drama on a small section of a giant world and how that's connected to the greater alien species and the various machinations etc. And the ending is sort of appropriate and kind of resolves stuff and it's not quite as grim as I had a LOT of trouble visualising the geography of stuff, particularly the in between the levels stuff - the ending scenes in particular I had no clue what was going on but also the nestworld. I mean it was good writing and there was some cool stuff (although not as good as some of the others of his I've read imo) but the ending was just a big disappointment to me. Maybe I was expecting too much, I dunno. I will say I appreciated the glossary/appendix although I didn't notice it until too late, heh.
[...] it rapidly becomes heart-sinkingly clear that here, the particular society in which the Culture might or might not intervene is one of faux-medieval fantasy fiction. The uniquely hopeless odour of leather, horse-like animals, stale sweat and tortured syntax wafts from the pages, and there is a tedious drizzle of invented proper names. [...] The story's highly intriguing last act could perhaps have been fruitfully expanded into a greater space, and the long setup could have been compressed. Having front-loaded the novel with so much talky scene-setting, Banks might have ended up relying slightly too much on his (and our) favourite gadgets. HæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
In a distant-future, highly advanced society of seemingly unlimited technological capability, a crime is committed within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one--maybe two--people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilizations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity--and her particular set of abilities--might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsIngenPopulære omslag
Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
Er det dig?Bliv LibraryThing-forfatter. Orbit Books3 udgaver af dette værk er udgivet af Orbit Books. Udgaver: 0316005363, 1841494186, 0316005371 Hachette Book Group2 udgaver af dette værk er udgivet af Hachette Book Group. Udgaver: 0316005363, 0316005371 |
Pity the other books in this series aren't available as e-books. ( )