I finished Consider Phlebas. It was good. The end was more tragic than I would have predicted.

My favorite character ended up being Unaha-Closp, the drone.

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I’ve been listening to Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks. It definitely feels a bit like a Traveller adventure, he keeps getting knocked from one bad situation to another. Good read so far.

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The 10 Best Sci-Fi Books For Fans of “The Expanse”

Expand your sci-fi reading list.
https://www.themarysue.com/the-10-best-sci-fi-books-for-fans-of-the-expanse/

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Yesterday evening I had my most intense reading experience in decades, reading the climax of Iain M Banks' Consider Phlebas .

I'm a bit under the weather, last day of vacation before we'd return home from Saxon Switzerland and really should have been in bed, but I simply couldn't put the book down for 100 pages of slowly and dreadfully building climax.

I'm a very slow reader, and normally my brain has a tendency to fall asleep reading while I would prefer to focus on the book, but this was the polar opposite: I had to stop but couldn't.

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The trains and tunnels section of Consider Phlebas makes for a frustrating re-read in which I find myself almost screaming "kill the fucking Idiran" at the human characters.

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Had a brief moment where I misread "Changers" as "Clangers", which would have changed this Iain M Banks novel considerably.

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I've decided to start using the phrase "easy in, easy out" in work communications, to inspire confidence.

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Chapter one of Consider Phlebas. Not great to read over lunch.

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