Culture: The Player of Games Lib/E (Series #2) (CD-Audio)

from elenchus

THE CULTURE: BOOK 2 | The Player of Games The story opens in an orthodox 3P omniscient, but a 1P intrusion soon suggests an unreliable narrator (or are there two?). As in Book 1, Banks subverts the standard genre story, with the riddle resolved in the last pages. Majority of narration follows Gur...

from sgsmitty

Well, what can I say. It seems I read this book before in august 2013. I cannot for the life of me remember doing so even after readying the review below. Not much more to say other than this time around I tended to view the Culture as a villain in the end because of their complacency in not help...

from kevn57

A terrific book I enjoyed it even more then the first Culture novel. Gurgeh was sad at the end and had been manipulated by Culture from the very beginning but was he so good at the empire's game because he himself was a throwback. He was portrayed throughout the story as different from the other ...

from antao

"All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elegant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games. By ...

from RobertDay

This book, Banks' second excursion into the Culture, is a very different proposition to his first sf novel, 'Consider Phlebas'. That book was a fairly straight action-adventure story (most likely to sell to a publisher), albeit one told from the viewpoint of someone opposed to the Culture. Here, ...