ME: I will intentionally read Iain M. Banks' non-Culture novels because I want to see him when he is at his more experimental and risk-taking.
IAIN M BANKS: (📎)
ME: Ian you're killing me!!
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@mcc ahaha, his non-scifi stuff is extremely uhhh
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@Tak I liked "Transition"
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@mcc oh, I haven't read that one, but I would count it as scifi based on the description (I know, you said non-culture, I said non-scifi 🤷)
I'm thinking of like, The Crow Road and… ugh, I can't remember, and all the descriptions are like "person in a remote Scottish village is led to the discovery of a dark truth through conflicts with their family and the village beekeeper"
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@Tak That… I think you're trying to suggest that his non-SF books don't pop but that sounds like a book I'd read lol
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Crow Road also manages to open with the line "It was the day my grandmother exploded." Which wins it a fair number of points in my book...
@mcc oo that one took me a while to get into with that lingo, I had to read it out loud a bit to get it into my brain
@mcc Sorry, wot?
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@Johns_priv that seems to be the question of the hour
@mcc I love that book! (But then I love everything Iain M Banks and most of the Iain Banks.) Try not to look too weird as you mumble the words out loud in an attempt to decipher the phonetics.
@mcc Yeah. Maybe try The Bridge instead?
@mcc always imagined bascule talking like the orcs in Warcraft 2
@mcc This is some extremely Riddley Walker bullshit.
@mcc and I naively thought that Graydon Saunders' writing was a bit of a thorny bush to get through...
@mcc Ahh, Fearsum Endjinn?
@mcc this reminds me: when I was AFK I wondered about your post: "can she possibly not have read Cloud Atlas?"
@mcc And why is quiet qwiet and not kwiet?!?
