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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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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

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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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“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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