Look to Windward (Paperback)

from BornAnalog

This is obviously intended to be a companion piece to the first novel in Banks "Culture" series, "Consider Phlebas," since the same stanza from Eliot's "The Wasteland" gives birth to both titles. So what is the relationship between the two? On the one level Banks Culture novels are great reading ...

from DanTarlin

Well written and very inventive. I have never read Banks before, but the promotional writing on this book said it was a great one to jump on to his "Culture" series, and my local library had a limited collection so I tried it. I felt like I was missing some information that would have been better...

from Karlstar

One of my favorite Banks books. A typical large scale, epic, grand Culture novel, mixed in with his excellent individual personalities. This one explores his usual them of aliens vs. culture - or is it religion vs. Culture? There's less action in this one than some of his others, but it is still ...

from duhrer

"Look to Windward" opens with the same T. S. Elliot quote as "Consider Phlebas", the first of Iain Banks' Culture novels, and the books in a sense are companion pieces. Where "Consider Phlebas" deals with the Idiran war, "Look to Windward" deals with the aftermath of both the Idiran war and the i...

from randalhoctor

Look to Windward might be may favorite Culture book. IM Banks was at his snap-crackling best perhaps. Often it reminded me of one of Shakespear's comedies. This book actually made me laugh several times. I can't get enough of The Culture.