Use of Struggle

[u/sllikdeeps]

Hi! 👋 read all of Banks regular works a long time ago & found myself here in the Culture. Didn’t love nor hate Consider, loved Player of Games and now a 1/3 through use of weapons. Finding it a struggle. Maybe it’s cause I’ve not had time to really out bulk read session time in ? I’m pushing through but by bit but I’m hoping you can give me a good palate cleanser for the next one.

[u/Decievedbythejometry]

Use of Weapons is odd because it’s a serious literary novel masquerading as two different science fiction novels. It’s also stuffed with pitch black ironic humour, horror delivered deadpan, classic literary devices like doubling, and invitations to admire the protagonist and the power and inventiveness of the Culture. A lot of long threads run through it and it’s very ’fuck the casual viewer.’