So, the latest Banksie. Always a treat, of course, and especially so when it’s a novel of The Culture. This one, though, is slightly disappointing. It’s not actually bad — certainly not badly written (though he does overuse the phrases “appeared to be”, and “looked like”, when describing things; I was told off years ago [...]
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@devilgate on Twitter- devilgate: RT @futheist: Pay a homeopath with a 1p coin in a bag full of bottle tops and tell them it is £1000. 2010-09-09
- devilgate: This Google Instant is quite good. But I nearly always search from the Firefox search bar, and hardly ever from Google's front page. 2010-09-09
- devilgate: Rain had gone by tine I rode home. Saw _fabulous_ rainbow. Quadrupled under the bow, & with the reversed second bow sometimes visible above. 2010-09-08
- devilgate: That rain's going to be fun to cycle home in!!! 2010-09-08
- devilgate: RT @davidschneider: To balance out the Pope's visit it seems only fair that we spend £12m on a parade for Richard Dawkins. 2010-09-08
- devilgate: The iOS upgrade seems to have fixed the appalling sloth of my iPhone 3G, though. 2010-09-08
- devilgate: This iTunes #Ping thing: you can only like 3 genres of music? Also, seems to be based on iTunes purchases, not what you own. Unimpressed. 2010-09-08
- devilgate: My blog: Summer Reading 2010 http://bit.ly/cQNisE 2010-09-08
- devilgate: @tamaranth downforeveryoneorjustme says it's up. But it's not. 2010-09-07
- devilgate: Inception: just... Wow! 2010-09-03