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Ian M. Banks
Culture

I am about to read Excession and the only other book from the series I have read is The Player of Games, which I really liked.

What should I expect? How do the two books compare?

>> No.3397111

sage for not /lit/

>> No.3397126

>>3397111

>implying moot gave a shit about the definition of literature when he named /lit/

>> No.3397136

>>3397126
>implying syfy is literature by any definition

>> No.3397140

>>3397136
>implying you aren't gay

>> No.3397141

>>3397136
>hello yes this is fallacy

>> No.3397144

>>3397140
Nice response, can;t argue with that logic

>>3397141
...

Feel free to engage in your dubious pleasures, but don't try to pass them as proper literature.

>> No.3397153

>>3397144
>proper literature
>proper

Are you, perchance, aware that it is Robert Burns day?

>> No.3397156

>>3397136
> implying you aren't illiterate and are qualified to judge what literature is and isn't

>> No.3397159

>>3397111
Ian M. Banks is definitely /lit/, you shit-for-brains hipster.

>> No.3397161

>>3397136
>implying syfy is literature by any definition
My definition of literature includes sci-fi, ergo you are proven wrong.

>> No.3397175

>>3397156
>implying I am not

>>3397161
How is your opinion more relevant than mine ergofag?

>> No.3397181

OP here, I would appreciate an answer please.

>> No.3397182

>>3397175
because you're mom is a whore :DDD

>> No.3397196

>>3397182
>you're

Confirmed for illiterate inbred redneck.

>> No.3397200

>>3397175

How is yours any more relevant than his?

>> No.3397201

Why not Consider Phlebas?

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3397206

>>3397196
confirmed for aspie

>> No.3397212

>>3397201
Because I like the premise of Excession more and afaik if you are familiar with the Culture the reading doesn't really matter.

Was Phlebas the one with the dude on an island eating guts and shit? I think I might have started it in the past.

>> No.3397214

>>3397212

No idea, I just know it's the first in the series.

>> No.3397222

>>3397175
>How is your opinion more relevant than mine ergofag?

Because you said 'not by any definition', you fucking retard.

>> No.3397239

>>3397206
You say it like it's a bad thing.

>> No.3397882

>>3397212
Yeah it is.

I've only read Phlebas and Player of games but of the two Phlebas was for me far better.

In fact Player of Games is the reason I haven't read any of the other books.

>> No.3397912

>>3397882

WTF? I've read the Culture series up to LTW and I thought Player by far the best in the series.

Anyway, Excession? Eh, I don't like it that much. The excession itself is a macguffin and there's a whole other plotline that's basically pointless. The whole novel seemed to me an extremely long winded way of showing that the Culture Minds weren't basically all goody-goody.

Read Use of Weapons next if you can. That and Player are the only two ones, thus far, that I think are really worthwhile in the Culture series.