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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > No Gravitas Allowed -- The Iain [M.] Banks thread
 
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frood
Aug 26, 2000
Nevermind.
Does anyone know if Orbit has any plans to release his other Culture novels in the larger format (Trade paperback? Paperback? I can never keep which format is what straight) that Matter, Consider Phlebas, Player of Games, and Use of Weapons were released in? I've tried to email Orbit US twice and checked their webspage, but I've got nothing. I'd really like to read the rest of the Culture series, but I really despise the small format (Mass-market Paperback?).

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frood
Aug 26, 2000
Nevermind.
After reading the Culture books that have been re-released recently, I picked up Feersum Endjinn hoping that it would be as good. Good god, I'm like 100 pages in and while it seems like it might be getting interesting, having to puzzle through the awful language that guy thinks in is completely killing it for me. I'm getting flashbacks to House of Leaves and having to twist the drat thing every which way on the train to try and make sense of it. Books should not be this difficult to read.

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