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Old 06-26-2011, 03:46 PM   #2112
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On to Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks (for a different book club)
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Oooh. Let me know what you think of that Wolf. I never got into it, but am intending to go back and give it another go some time.
I had a hard time staying interested in Consider Phlebas. I never engaged with any of the characters, and the events are just such an absurd mish-mash of extraordinarily bad luck and poor judgment, that I never became concerned about what was going to happen next, because, pretty much throughout, no matter what happened, I knew there was going to be some completely unlikely resolution.

I will give a try at Player of Games which several people have described as being much better. But frankly, that bar isn't set very high.
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