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Comment author: Algernoq 21 July 2014 03:02:21AM *  1 point [-]

ugly and vulgar but not very disturbing

I also was disgusted by "Player of Games", the only Banks novel I read. Is all of Banks' writing like this?

Comment author: Nornagest 21 July 2014 07:01:20AM *  0 points [-]

In the context of the Culture novels, the polite way of putting it would be that Banks had a penchant for using scenes of extreme horror and depravity as contrast to the utopian aspects of his writing, not to mention the SF spy games and gun porn. I've never read a novel of his that didn't have at least some of the same, though, and I've read some of his non-SF work.