This week's reading

[andrewducker]

Just finished the new Iain M Banks (Surface Detail), which I thoroughly enjoyed. I'd been worrying about it a bit, as I've given up on the mainstream Iain Banks novels a while back, but it hung together incredibly well, and I found the book incredibly hard to put down. Recommended (although I'm not sure how well someone who hasn't read some of the previous Culture novels would get on with it.)

Now I've started The Quantum Thief, which was recommended by a couple of people who got advance reading copies. Only about 10 pages in so far, but it's ticking all the right buttons (the opening scenes are set within a virtual prison based around The Prisoner's Dilemma). Oh, and the back cover has a recommendation by someone called "Charles Stross", who also seemed to like it.

Comments

[andrewducker]

ooh, which ones?

My favourite one to start people off is usually Player of Games.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

I got Matter of Time. I would have hated the book had it not been for the epilogue. I got so involved with the characters and the universe that if the epilogue hadn't happened I would have been furious. However being the freedom & person loving person that I am, I loved the book. I'm now considering reading Consider Phlebas. Thanks to your Culture link I now know it is the first book. I might try reading them all in order.