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Title: Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks ISBN: 0-553-37459-1 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Banks' best
Comment: Fast action, intricate plotting, diverse and rich characters (including, as the two best: an idiot savant and a cybernetic ant), give this book an odd and marvelous texture (and oh, did I mention its fruity bouquet?). I found this book one of Iain Bank's two best works featuring his middle initial ("Banksie" early on adopted the impenatrable nom de plume of Iain "M." Banks for his science fiction novels -- its a simple Iain Banks for his "mainstream" works). The novel is about a far future Earth, with a remenant population decended from those who opted not to leave to the stars. It combines medieval politics, after-death cyberlife, a people fallen from knowledge of the high technology that still surrounds them. Written from multiple viewpoints, a portion of the book is written in the jargon of the idiot savant previously mentioned, hence the book's title. Some found these parts of the book annoying and difficult, but I found them, after a short period of acclamation, to be the best and most wryly humerous parts of the book. sew git this book, reed tha parts liik this owt lowd, and laf yor hed off! reelie
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderful stuff...again :)
Comment: I love Iain Banks novels, so I guess I might be a tad biased in reviewing is works, but you have to belive me when I say that this is one of his best books, and that is saying a lot believe me. The setting is a far future earth with gargantuan buildings, and a moribund society (in some respects at least). The setting would be familiar to readers of Gene Wolfes equally excellent New Sun series. Super technology, and strange beasts populate this world that possesses a really likeable version of the internet. A highlight of the book is Bascule the Teller's speech pattern, and in fact his entire banter, which is done phonetically. Count Sessine, a mysterious woman from the crypt (whose introduction sequence is really good by the way) and Scientist Gadfium make up the other protagonists of this story about an armageddon-like event approaching the earth. READ THE BOOK NOW AND BE AMAZED. nuff said.
Rating: 1
Summary: Painful to read...unpleasant to view
Comment: Quite frankly, made me feel literally (boom boom) ill. The phonetic sequences are impossible to read, and I ended up skipping them. Usually love the author, so very very disappointed. I think Banks publisher/editor has become far too indulgent, "Oh yes, Iain, I LOVE it...No, I know you can't read it, but everything else you've written sold..." I think the Emperor needs to be told he is naked.
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Title: USE OF WEAPONS (Bantam Spectra Book) by IAIN BANKS ISBN: 0553292242 Publisher: Spectra Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks ISBN: 0553292250 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks ISBN: 0743421922 Publisher: Star Trek Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks ISBN: 1857231384 Pub. Date: 1987 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Inversions by Iain M. Banks ISBN: 074341196X Publisher: Pocket Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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