The book is about how the Culture deals with an excession (an event that the Culture can not easily handle – not something that it's used to). I'm not sure whether this says something about the books or about me (comments, anybody?).īut as I said in the first paragraph, this is a must read if you are interested in the Culture and its inner workings. I'm looking back on my review of Player of Games, and notice that I'm also noting the missing humour there. The idea of joining the Culture doesn't sound that alluring to me anymore. There's not such comic relief in Excession. I'm not expecting Terry Pratchett here, Banks is normally quite gloomy in his tales, but normally it's with a small twist of humour that makes it all bearable. Secondly, I missed the humour of the other Banks books that I've read. Maybe the characters are not as important as their actions but I still felt that I was missing something. There is a lot of characters in this book and all of them seem important at one time or another and I had a hard time differentiating them. I feel kind of ambiguous about this book – one thing is certain it will never be my banks favourite, but on the other hand it's a must read if you are interested in the Culture.įirst of all I found it hard to follow, all too often I found myself in doubt as to who was who (or maybe what was what).
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