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Silver Alicorn posted:oh that. I thought they just ate seashells and fish guts and other indigestible stuff ohhhh yeah i remember now. yeah the big fat king guy has special fake metal teeth he puts in for like stripping flesh off of bones or some poo poo, and a separate pair for cutting through bone, etc. it's goofy. reminds me of (spoiler for use of weapons) the chair in that it's Agile Vector posted:lurid and felt like a very 80s scifi edgy choice
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I’m watching Prospect. it kind of sucks but Pedro Pascal is fantastic in it rotor posted:his characters do just the absolute dumbest poo poo just to move the plot forward like what, I’m not recalling anything egregious
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Improbable Lobster posted:get a use of those weapons
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lol apparently Pedro Pascal was in a Wonder Woman TV movie in 2011 e: oh poo poo Bubbles
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Improbable Lobster posted:get a use of those weapons
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indigi posted:I’m watching Prospect. it kind of sucks but Pedro Pascal is fantastic in it it was some years ago, i can't remember exactly which book it was. basically there was some lady who was tagging along with the main character and they hated each other and the lady jumped or fell off something high and the main character jumped off to save her or something? I remember rolling my eyes too hard and having to apply hot compresses to my eyes for a while.
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PCjr sidecar posted:the cannibalism vignette is in consider phelbas and i loving hate it. there’s a mention in player but only as a qanon depravity by the ruling class i JUST finished that section and that's where I had to stop for the night. err wtf
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Jonny 290 posted:i JUST finished that section and that's where I had to stop for the night. err wtf its bad and the books are bad
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I'm going to read one, ok. if i am cringe about it at the end, i will not read the rest and will wander on to another author. just really liked the idea of a functional post scarcity intelligent society, as opposed to the star trek universe
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SmokaDustbowl posted:the culture is good this but I only read three of them before I got stopped by the short stories
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im partial to the best space move one because it has more of a view of that society from an active members perspective, then their experience with an outside society, instead of the other way around in phlebas
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Achmed Jones posted:this but I only read three of them before I got stopped by the short stories ive read culture fanfic by people with musk-level understanding of banks that was better than the short stories bafflingly bad
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Jonny 290 posted:I'm going to read one, ok. if i am cringe about it at the end, i will not read the rest and will wander on to another author. just really liked the idea of a functional post scarcity intelligent society, as opposed to the star trek universe that's fair. although it's kinda unfortunate you picked that one to be the one. it's the first book he wrote in that universe and it doesn't really focus on the culture
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well i NORMALLY figure that that if i'm going to engage in a media series that i just started with the first thing, because im raised on trek and other tv, and goddammit now im mad ok FINE whats the best culture book that wont be ?????? if i havent read any of the other ones. the cannibal thing kinda put me off tbh
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i'll second agile vector, player of games (the second book) is probably a better intro to the world. there's not a lot of crossover or continuity between any of the stories though, references to characters or events here and there. look to windward is connected to the events of consider phlebas, but not in any way where it matters that you've read the first one i was never a fan of consider phlebas, it's janky and the pacing sucks. that's not an issue with the later books though infernal machines fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Jan 7, 2021 |
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you’re over the worst part in phelbas but there’s not a lot of culture in that book player of games is a good start but doesn’t spend a lot of time in-culture; excession is a bit more culture-focused
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:[whispering to date while watching narnia when aslan first appears on the screen] that's narnia i beg your pardon, fair creature, but to what land have we come, whence we exited the wardrobe? narnia. what? narnia business.
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PCjr sidecar posted:you’re over the worst part in phelbas but there’s not a lot of culture in that book excession is the conical yospos approved culture novel, by virtue of being at least a quarter space robot irc chat logs (it is good)
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"the culture books are great" "oh yeah but no the first one is bad. The second is ok but doesn't really live up to its potential. But" [taps out]
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that's cool, ain't nobody gonna twist your arm pops
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I could not identify with any of the characters in Excession, they suck
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the first one is still better than most other sci fi. comparatively it's maybe not so great. i liked player of games the best and put consider phlebas about even with use of weapons (exhausting the three books I've read) but yeah banks being "bad" still dunks all over most other genre authors
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maybe the goon who hated being around people so much they put him on a weapons silo in the middle of nowhere
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Achmed Jones posted:but yeah banks being "bad" still dunks all over most other genre authors yeah i mean this isn't really all wrong
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infernal machines posted:that's cool, ain't nobody gonna twist your arm pops Obama and his blue helmet UN troops will use Bidens inauguration as cover to go door to door and force red-blooded americans like myself to read Ian M Banks novels at gunpoint
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infernal machines posted:chronological order doesn't overly matter, but there are a bunch of overarching story lines through different books. idk, there's a huge chart out there designed to answer exactly this question moist von lipwig i’m starting with guards guards. and solaris too rotor posted:I didnt think the Banks stuff was good. Like he's a good writer I guess and yeah his nonhuman characters are interesting but his characters do just the absolute dumbest poo poo just to move the plot forward. My pet peeve in fiction is presumably intelligent characters who make insane decisions just to advance the plot. Like that one Radch novel where the main character just suddenly decides to risk her life for her enemy out of the blue. And that whole cannibalism thing in player of games. Everything just seems like such an artificial set piece. lol didn’t you watch 2020? indigi posted:lol apparently Pedro Pascal was in a Wonder Woman TV movie in 2011 i never heard of him until he took off his helmet which i barely noticed i was too busy watching his feet. i liked him in new wonder woman tho and now i should go look for him like where’s wally/waldo
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infernal machines posted:that's cool, ain't nobody gonna twist your arm pops yeah, nothing wrong with not liking thing some series are a bit like that. since were talking Pritchett, I could see the same for discworld, too; the first two books are before the world solidified and the low fantasy style hit its stride, i dont know if I'd have read many if I started there instead I started on a few dozen in and went back. I want to say it was Interesting Times or something around that block. it didn't hurt that recurring characters were accessible to a new reader, maybe because some of them had to be since their initial books were so far back
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Hydrogen Sonata Surface Detail Excession Look to Windward Player of Games Use of Weapons Consider Phlebas Matter imo
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Doom Mathematic posted:I wouldn't recommend Eric as a starting point. (I don't know if this was a joke suggestion, I know a lot of people think Eric is one of the less good Discworld books.) The thing to remember about it is that it was primarily, originally, a Josh Kirby art showcase. I personally love Josh Kirby's art (RIP) so I enjoy the book a lot, but if you're not careful you'll get one of the slimmed down paperback editions with only about a hundred pages of words, and none of the artwork, and as a written work it's a bit... hasty? Thin? Kind of leaps from one setting to another with only a token framing device wrapped around it... plus you're not invested in Rincewind at all... i was joking because it was the next published book after guards guards which was suggested by the guy above me, and it’s not very good
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