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Recently, i ran out of Iain [b]M.[/b] Banks, and into an offline vacation.
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Recently, i ran out of Iain [b]M.[/b] Banks, and into an offline vacation.
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So, despite a promise i gave to myself never to read Banks' non-scifi stuff (based upon hearing that his scifi stuff was abridged, and non-scifi Banks was severely brutal), i found and picked the first book by the author i could find on the library shelf: called A Song of Stone. By then i've had read most of Wasp Factory, and it didn't seem that nasty.
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So, despite a promise i gave to myself never to read Banks' non-scifi stuff (based upon hearing that his scifi stuff was abridged, and non-scifi Banks was severely brutal), i found and picked the first book by the author i could find on the library shelf: called A Song of Stone. By then i've had read most of Wasp Factory, and it didn't seem that nasty.
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It
was
everything
i
feared
to
find
in
unabridged,
non-scifi
Banks.
Very
quickly
it
became
so
dark
that
it
was
hard
to
read.
And
then
it
became
easier
to
read,
because
with
each
page
i
nurtured
a
hope
that
it
would
become
less
dark.
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It
was
everything
i
feared
to
find
in
unabridged,
non-scifi
Banks.
Very
quickly
it
became
so
dark
that
it
was
hard
to
read.
And
then
it
became
easier
to
read,
because
with
each
page
i
nurtured
a
hope
that
it
would
become
less
dark
-
because,
surely,
there
couldn't
be
more
waiting.
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Of
course,
it
didn't.
It
only
got
darker,
mounting
an
additional
layer
of
perversion
and
atrocity
with
each
chapter.
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Of
course,
there
was.
It
only
got
darker,
mounting
an
additional
layer
of
perversion
and
atrocity
with
each
chapter.
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In the end, it was pretty rewarding, though.
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In the end, it was pretty rewarding, though.
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I think i actually liked it, if at least for being a literary adventure; something i didn't expect.
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I think i actually liked it, if at least for being a literary adventure; something i didn't expect.
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