Consider Phlebas
by Iain M. Banks
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Author: Iain M. BanksEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-26
ISBN: 031600538X
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Orbit
Book Reviews of Consider Phlebas
Book Review: Wow..
Summary: 1 Stars
Usually when I find a book to be "bad" I sort of figure it out in the first chapter or so, and while I admit I put this book down a few times it finally drew me in.. but when the book started dropping plot-lines, and then when it finally got to the "end", I was so freaking upset I literally trashed the book... I mean, I would be embarrassed to suggest this book for anyone else to read.
I LOVE reading, but the very fact that this book ends with nothing having happened in the entire story-line makes me feel like my mind was taken advantage of, my time wasted and I feel dumber for just having read it. If I could rate a book lower than one stars, well, I would do so.
I have read a few other books in the culture since then, at the pressure of some friends, and it is like they are written by different authors.
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Summary of Consider Phlebas
"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLS
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.
Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.
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