Culture Use of Weapons, (Paperback)

from LizzieD

Oh my! I finished Iain M. Banks's Use of Weapons yesterday, and I'm still blown away. I enjoyed it as much as Excession which had been my favorite up to this point and for different reasons. *E* is much more "about" the Culture. This book is "about" the Culture indirectly in how it manipulates ot...

from Zare

When it comes to Banks there are only two things that truly annoy me - unpronounceable character names and insistence on some weird elements of the future society. Fortunately this is not the case in this novel. Like "Consider Phlebas" this one is action packed novel following a rather tragical c...

from trandism

Cheradenine Zakalwe is a mercenary, an expert on soldiering and commanding armies who works occasionally for Special Circmustances - the Culture's equivalent of Secret Services - interfering incognito into the affairs of other lesser civilizations. His price stays the same throughout the years. M...

from RobertDay

In my memorial re-read of Banks' Culture novels, I came to 'Use of Weapons' after a gap of more than twenty years. It remains a tour de force. The alternating timelines do take a little getting used to, but the trick is not to worry about the historical timeline running backwards through the nove...

from Vvolodymyr

This was my second book by Iain M. Banks. The first one being The Algebraist which I liked. I made 2 crucial mistakes! : 1) I did not check to see that this was a 3rd book in a series, which robbed me of the not necessarily obligatory, but at least orientating background information on the Cultur...