The Player of Games

by Iain M. Banks | Science Fiction & Fantasy | This book has not been rated.
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Journal Entry 1 by sumako from Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland on Thursday, July 5, 2018
A Culture Novel
Paperback. - ©1988. - Orbit, 2009. - 309 pages

www.adlibris.com (5.7.2018):

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game...a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death.

Praise for Iain M. Banks:

"Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy -- the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more" -- NME

"An exquisitely riotous tour de force of the imagination which writes its own rules simply for the pleasure of breaking them." -- Time Out

Journal Entry 2 by sumako at Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland on Monday, August 27, 2018

Released 5 yrs ago (8/28/2018 UTC) at Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland

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Itselläni on kirja suomeksi yhä lukematta. Lukuiloa!

Journal Entry 3 by wingMecuwing at Hämeenlinna, Kanta-Häme / Egentliga Tavastland Finland on Sunday, September 2, 2018
Thanks a lot sumako! This seems very interesting.

Journal Entry 4 by wingMecuwing at Hämeenlinna, Kanta-Häme / Egentliga Tavastland Finland on Sunday, March 1, 2020
"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called 'Gurgeh'. The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game.
Me? I'll tell you about me later.
This is how the story begins."

And that is how you get me hooked in reading the story, despite the fact that I found the beginning a bit boring. But I kept reading and ended up wishing I could have watched the game they played.

Author Banks died in 2013, so this fits for a Finnish forum challenge Helmet 2020.

Journal Entry 5 by wingMecuwing at by mail, Finland -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, August 16, 2020

Released 3 yrs ago (8/17/2020 UTC) at by mail, Finland -- Controlled Releases

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Travelling by mail to the next reader since I can't travel. Stay safe!

Journal Entry 6 by wingerpaxwing at Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Monday, October 19, 2020
Kiitokset, Mecu! Muistan, kun tämä saapui ja ihastelin tuota Scifi-henkistä saatekorttiakin. Mulla oli työpäivä silloin kesken ja asunnossa kävi korjausporukkaa. Jotenkin on journalointi ja kiitokset jääneet, vaikka luulin asian olevan kunnossa. Kirja itse asiassa matkusteli sosiaalisesti eristäytyneenä ja oli lomalukemistossamme mukana. Minulla on lukeminen vielä vähän kesken.

Toivotaan, että ajat tästä muuttuvat ja pääsee taas miiteissäkin tapaamaan ja kirjoja vaihtamaan. Kiitokset.

Journal Entry 7 by wingerpaxwing at Vuotorin kirjanvaihtopiste in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Monday, July 26, 2021

Released 2 yrs ago (7/26/2021 UTC) at Vuotorin kirjanvaihtopiste in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland

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