No Gravitas Allowed -- The Iain [M.] Banks thread

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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > No Gravitas Allowed -- The Iain [M.] Banks thread

CARL MARK FORCE IV: Sep 2, 2007; I took a walk. And threw up in an English garden.

Groovelord Neato posted:

name of the wind is so bad someone in the book barn did a critical reading of it in its own thread.

Would you mind linking to the posts? I made it 30 pages into The Name Of The Wind before I had to give up because the bad prose made me want to scream

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CARL MARK FORCE IV: Sep 2, 2007; I took a walk. And threw up in an English garden.

I couldn't track down a copy of Look To Windward until after I'd read the rest of the series, but it ended up being a perfect coda to what is probably my favorite science fiction series of all time.

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