Comments | hirez: Show vs tell, I think.

hirez

Show vs tell, I think.

Jan 28, 2011 00:12

I was grovelling across the wykipeejah for something-or-other and found the entry for 'Espedair Street'. Reading the synopsis and looking at the list of Banks-books gave me a weird kind of combined adrenaline rush and ache because I remembered just how good it was to read it/them for the first time. A lot like the difference between a 128k mp3 ( Read more... )

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cybermule January 28 2011, 00:32:48 UTC

Heh. You make a point worth remembering.

bogwitch64 January 28 2011, 03:59:46 UTC

Have I told you lately that you are brilliant? As if you need to be told.

hirez January 28 2011, 09:04:22 UTC

It's the coming out of the far side of a migraine. When the world slides back into 3D and I'm actually in my head again, rather than controlling it from a distance with sticks and wires.

andrewducker January 28 2011, 08:47:03 UTC

I had been feeling that I was going off of fiction in general until I read the latest Culture novel, which grabbed my attention like no book in the last two years.

I have no idea why this is, but I think I need to go looking for more.

hirez January 28 2011, 09:03:18 UTC

Excellent news.

(I do get worried that I'm becoming jaded when new music/books/stuff doesn't hit me between the eyes the way it did when I was teenager or twentysummat. I guess I'm always going to be looking for that same lift-shaft feeling that hearing Autobahn (or Blue Monday or...) for the first time gave me.)

reddragdiva February 11 2011, 20:00:16 UTC

I am most pleased when I find something that doesn't suck, and am reassured that shit is actually shit and it's not just me.

valkyriekaren January 28 2011, 09:47:03 UTC

Definitely read Transition (his recent without-an-M novel) - it's what the pundits would call 'speculative fiction' as it's a thriller set in a world where dimension-hopping and time-travel is possible.

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kathbad January 28 2011, 09:05:22 UTC

I adore Iain Banks - but have never got into Iain M Banks. Just finished Transition and can highly recommend it. Got that same buzz of reading his stuff for the first time (although he is a sick whatsit)

reddragdiva February 11 2011, 20:01:00 UTC

I was actually the other way - read Iain Banks avidly many years ago, but of late it's all Culture all the tine.

eljaydaly January 28 2011, 09:53:44 UTC

You need to have some bad experiences so you can recognize the vomitously good ones when they hit you.