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Hello Pity posted:If you hated absolutely everything about Consider Phlebas I wouldn't bother with any more Banks. It seems unlikely they would interest you at all. I disagree completely, he said that he thought the Culture was interesting, but Consider Phlebas is told from the PoV of a guy antagonistic towards the Culture (and only hints at a lot of the stuff Banks develops in the later books). It's also stylistically different; more of a straight up thriller, whereas the other Culture books are a lot more psychological, have more intricate plots, etc. I'd at least give Use of Weapons a shot before writing him off completely, although I made that mistake and it kind of set my expectations too high for the other books (which are have all been very good so far, but haven't impressed me the same way) I kinda hate on Vernor Vinge, maybe because of all the hype here and having read Banks first; by comparison his prose is so bland and flat, his characters are uninteresting, his pacing terrible (way too drawn out).
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