Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #63

Finished reading the Culture series, rounding off with Surface Detail and The Hydrogen Sonata. The Hydrogen Sonata was... ok. It's definitely one of the better books in the series, but that's not saying much because most of them are bad. It has the Ian M Banks problem of focusing its entire story on some sort of event that supposed to be big, and then right at the end going "never mind lol it never actually mattered the culture wins again".

Surface Detail is one of the most disgusting books I've ever read. Not only does one particular plot thread not go anywhere, he also apparently included it solely so he could get his rocks off describing torture. The man is an out and out sociopath, and anyone who actually enjoyed his books is suspect.

His description of The Culture as "hippies with guns" is accurate, because hippies are terrible people who think they're good and he fits right in with them.

At least Peter Kenny's voice work in the audiobook versions is great.