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Surface Detail (Culture, #9)

by Iain M. Banks

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"Just started on about page 100. I've found Banks' Culture series to be full of great ideas in the past but sometimes he's very guilty of just jerking the reader around, for no good reason other than he can. Finished this long ago, so long that I've forgotten lots of the details! It turns out that I always seem to like *parts* of the Culture books much more than the whole. This one is no different." — Jul 22, 2014 01:44PM

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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