Use of Weapons Book Reviews

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Use of weapons. Easy enjoyable read. Great sarcasm from the drones as usual. Enjoy!!!

Difficult to enjoy. I found this method of story telling very jarring and I nearly gave up on completing the book. the ending does help tie it together but I found it unsatisfying. I'm reading the culture books in order and found 'consider phlebas' And 'player of games' easier to enjoy.

The best Culture novel. Most of Banks's SF novels tie into his "Culture" universe, and of these Use of Weapons is, in my opinion, the best. This book has a more interesting structure than most of Banks's novels (which tend to be pretty conventional multiple character omniscient narrator). The book is telling two stories about the same character, an agent of Special Circumstances (the Culture's covert dirty tricks organ). Each story is chopped into pieces which are interleaved, with the second (later) story told backwards (so that the two converge). People who don't like nonlinear storytelling are apt to find this structure a bit annoying. I loved it. The other thing readers may object to is that the book is very, very graphically violent. Aside from that, it's a gripping story, well told, bursting with ideas both original or borrowed and twisted.

Becoming a fan of I M B. Really enjoyed but found the flash backs and or time jumping confusing, might read it again and see if it the changes make more sense which is unusual for me to repeat read fiction.

Terrible book. After moderately enjoying “Consider Phlebas” (book #1) and then loving “Player of Games” (book #2), I went on to read this abhorrent book which I loathed. I did not find the storylines running in opposite directions particularly confusing as others have mentioned — maybe a little disorienting at times - but a good read can be worth the effort. This was not. The book opens with a couple promising, light hearted chapters that are fun and engaging. But as it takes a dark turn, the tedium begins. Aside from the desperate attempt at crafting a dark storyline (which became silly in its headlong rush to be gruesome), the long, long, long chapters about the character staring off in daydreams became unbearably tedious.

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