It’s an effective technique for visual description. Impressionistic image forms in your head. The scale of the sentence conveys the scale of the scene (here a river on a massive artificial space orbital habitat). Quite clever. I don’t think I’d like composing such things though.
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Look to Windward isn’t my fave, but Banks is one of the best to do it.
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Are you going through all the culture books for the first time? (if so, hell yeah!/https://xkcd.com/1053/ moment)
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One of the passages from Player of Games struck me that way; I think it was a description of the city when Gurgeh arrives to play.
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I always struggle with passages like this b/c part of my brain that I can't shut off tells me "you didn't fully take in that last sentence, you must re-read it until you do!"
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Did you read Feersum Endjinn yet? Thats an experiment there
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It seems to depend on which type of reader you are. I've heard people who read 'out loud in their heads' say that they really struggled with Feersum Endjinn. Me, I kinda read diagonally, and it didn't bother me at all.
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I'll be reading this soon currently on Use of Weapons
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Next on my list. Until now (Excession), it's been an upward trajectory. My own reco is obv Player of Games (see profile).
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