{"id":2282,"date":"2003-04-27T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2003-04-28T00:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=420"},"modified":"2010-05-09T00:06:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T03:06:52","slug":"re-a-box-full-of-worlds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/27\/re-a-box-full-of-worlds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: A Box Full of Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished Iain M. Banks’ Look to Windward<\/a> yesterday, and I liked it very much.<\/p>\n

This is one more book in the author’s Culture<\/a> series; if you’re not familiar with it, this book may be a good introduction. As usual for Banks, some parts are darkly pessimistic but a few shorter passages are simply hilarious. My favorite is where a pair of unnamed characters talk about (and, at the end, exclusively in) ship names:<\/p>\n

…”Oh, come on. You have Zero Credibility<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

“And you’re Charming But Irrational<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

“While you’re Demented But Determined<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

“And You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

“You’re making these up.”<\/p>\n

“No I’m… hold on, sorry; was that a ship’s name?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I’ve said before, most of Banks’ ship names also sound perfectly plausible for weblogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished Iain M. Banks’ Look to Windward yesterday, and I liked it very much. This is one more book in the author’s Culture series; if you’re not familiar with it, this book may be a good introduction. As usual for Banks, some parts are darkly pessimistic but a few shorter passages are simply hilarious. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-AO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}