The Player Of Games
Author: Ian Banks
Rating: 5 of 5.
My rating schema is essentially based on how many other things I ignore to continue reading it. I ignored lunch, phone-carcassone, and most TV. That's pretty good!
Once again, Banks does a tremendously good job of mirroring the larger conflict in a smaller one. His characters are ... meh, but it's not really about them. This protagonist I can empathize with tremendously more than the asshole from Consider Phlebas.
More, please.
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Yeah, the Player of Games is a real high point of the culture series. Glad you enjoyed it! Use of Weapons is a lot more of a character piece, while Excession does a lot of very cool grand sci-fi stuff. Finally, I really enjoyed The Hydrogen Sonata, as an exploration of the Culture doing diplomacy with an equivalent-scale civ and dealing with the politics of Subliming.
ReplyDeleteI'm really glad you enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteOooh, sounds good. Added to my book-queue, which means I'll get around to reading it in the year 3027.
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