However, I can *sorta* imagine that a sleepy person might also be a bludgeon-happy person. Either way, you'll want to be careful. And enjoy your reading.
SF has the M and "mainstream" fiction (which is still usually pretty odd) is M-free. This is his latest SF novel... He's only written one non-fiction book, which I haven't read yet, although it's on the stack...
I do, indeed, and I've read all but that non-fiction book and his last mainstream book, which didn't manage to hook me at all.
Raw Spirit is extremely fun, and entertained me more than IB (or even IMB)'s last couple of fiction works. With luck, stretching those non-fiction muscles will have done him some good, too.
Oh, and: I don't have The Algebraist, because I'm sure I'm not allowed to buy it. (Pratchett books and Banks books show up magically on birthdays or Christmas, y'see...)
i kinda like this soulless picture. it doesn't look as evil as the others.
really, it's more like he's offering the book to you, as if it were an object of great power.
"take this and go now... and behold... behold the power....
OF READING!"
(thunder crash, dramatic music in the background, a shrill scream from afar, and suddenly, josh has disappeared and there is only the book... the book... the booooooooooook....)
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Date: 2004-10-12 07:07 am (UTC)You haven't seen me mad.
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Date: 2004-10-12 12:33 pm (UTC)I think I mostly look sleepy there. That's been pretty defaulty recently.
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Date: 2004-10-12 01:08 pm (UTC)However, I can *sorta* imagine that a sleepy person might also be a bludgeon-happy person. Either way, you'll want to be careful. And enjoy your reading.
i remember something about this guy
Date: 2004-10-12 08:15 am (UTC)he publishes his non-fiction as "iain banks" and the other stuff as
"iain m. banks" (using his middle initial), right? or the other way
around?
do you like his stuff? have you read any of the others?
-- sven
Re: i remember something about this guy
Date: 2004-10-12 08:31 am (UTC)SF has the M and "mainstream" fiction (which is still usually pretty odd) is M-free. This is his latest SF novel... He's only written one non-fiction book, which I haven't read yet, although it's on the stack...
I do, indeed, and I've read all but that non-fiction book and his last mainstream book, which didn't manage to hook me at all.
He's well worth checking out.
Re: i remember something about this guy
Date: 2004-10-12 07:17 pm (UTC)Oh, and: I don't have The Algebraist, because I'm sure I'm not allowed to buy it. (Pratchett books and Banks books show up magically on birthdays or Christmas, y'see...)
Re: i remember something about this guy
Date: 2004-10-12 10:11 am (UTC)Re: i remember something about this guy
Date: 2004-10-12 05:01 pm (UTC)Re: i remember something about this guy
Date: 2004-10-12 07:04 pm (UTC)Re: i remember something about this guy
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Date: 2004-10-12 11:11 am (UTC)i kinda like this soulless picture. it doesn't look as evil as the others.
really, it's more like he's offering the book to you, as if it were an object of great power.
"take this and go now... and behold... behold the power....
OF READING!"
(thunder crash, dramatic music in the background, a shrill scream from afar, and suddenly, josh has disappeared and there is only the book... the book... the booooooooooook....)
(i need to sleep more.)
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:39 pm (UTC)