Status Updates From Matter (Culture, #8)

oh yay! now begins my favorite arc of the novel the incredible hyeng-zhar waterfalls and archaeology at the nameless city ruins embedded in the falls! this book is so amazing!

now we are in the second act which in many of banks' books is a joyous slog. as the plot sloooowly begins to unfurl its tendrils, and worldbuilding is locked in! banks rarely has one singular POV character, he usually has a few prominent ones and this book has 3 thus far. its sooooo good amnd likely to get another 5 star rating from me!

i looove this damn book! i will mourn iain banks for the rest of my life this fude had such talent for worldbuilding, prose vocabulary and so much more! this book proceeds exactly as i remember from my previous 5 rereads and i know exactly whats coming and still cant wait!

golly! what a magnificent writer and worldbuilder, banks was! in this m osr recent patch we had two xeno cultures the morthanveld and nariscene parley and the pages dripped with rich culture and humor. at least a dozen different uniqe xeno species were mentioned in passing, and its so damn sad we will never get more about them! RIP iain m banks!

this is my 5th time reading this book since it came out in 2010 or 2011. its just as good as all the other times! i looove the stupefying amount of aliens in banks' novels! RIP to a legend!