Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 6 copies of Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks, the 3rd Culture novel, which I *have read* and *have enjoyed* and boy do I have a story about it! I read it, and then, six months later, came across the book in my pile, and started reading it. I had forgotten it!
“To some people,” he said, “that might sound like just a good excuse for bad behavior.”
Sma shrugged. “And perhaps they would be right. Maybe that is all it is….But if nothing else, at least we need an excuse; think how many people need none at all.”
"But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird … but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you would love half-rotted fish guts and tweaking the eyes out of little grazing animals; you would know no poetry and you could never appreciate flying as fully as the human on the ground yearning to be you.
If you wanted to be a seabird you deserved to be one."
—Iain M. Banks #UseOfWeapons
Update:
HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT!
Ok, yeah, that is pretty traumatic. Amazed he decided to live hundreds of years after that.
Holy fucking shit.
I recently started Use of Weapons and have no idea what's going on, but I like whatever that thing is.
Like that one dude's "story time" thing was awesome.
#TheCultureSeries #UseOfWeapons #theculture
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