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> Except Use of Weapons. I only need to read about the "chair" once. I haven't read that one, but I can imagine it's something horrible. Ian Banks must have b
by tivert 3y ago
> Except Use of Weapons. I only need to read about the "chair" once.
I haven't read that one, but I can imagine it's something horrible.
Ian Banks must have been a kind of fucked up dude, given he invented some particularly dark stuff.
- arethuza 3y agoI remember Banks commenting at a talk that someone made the "Ian Banks must have been a kind of fucked up dude" comment at a book signing where his mother was present and she commented that "Ian was always a lovely wee boy". He always seemed like a really nice guy when I've heard him speak in person.
- rsynnott 3y ago> Ian Banks must have been a kind of fucked up dude, given he invented some particularly dark stuff. _Contextually_, I've seen a lot worse. Banks doesn't glorify this sort of thing, generally; bad things are done by bad people. (Almost to a slightly preachy extent; the elite of the Empire of Azad watching literal torture porn seems like _slightly_ over-doing it on the whole "have I mentioned that they are bad?" thing...) It's when an author has the _hero_ pulling out fingernails that I start to get a bit worried.
- Lio 3y agoHis first book, Wasp Factory[1] is also a game changer. His is a dark world right from the off! :D 1. It's non-sci-fi so published under the name Iain Banks rather than Iain M. Banks.