Comments on: Free Podcast of TRANSITION by Iain M. Banks http://www.orbitbooks.net/2009/09/23/free-podcast-of-transition-by-iain-m-banks/ Orbit Books Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:58:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Enon Harris http://www.orbitbooks.net/2009/09/23/free-podcast-of-transition-by-iain-m-banks/comment-page-1/#comment-1231 Enon Harris Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:15:12 +0000 http://www.orbitbooks.net/?p=4346#comment-1231 The first two installments are quite good. It seems a bit much to space out the installments of the book over twelve weeks, though, and rather insulting to the work to blithely cut it from thirteen hours to just six. The blurb from The Independent contains a suppurating solecism: "If only more contemporary fiction was like it." Such an illiterate recommendation is unworth repeating. As Lewis Carroll noted: "`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'" The first two installments are quite good. It seems a bit much to space out the installments of the book over twelve weeks, though, and rather insulting to the work to blithely cut it from thirteen hours to just six.

The blurb from The Independent contains a suppurating solecism: “If only more contemporary fiction was like it.” Such an illiterate recommendation is unworth repeating. As Lewis Carroll noted: “`Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’”

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