![]() Use of Weapons touched me like no book has touched me for a long time - Zakalwe's battles became mine and his past became mine. In my opinion this book is a lot more than just an adventure, it's about a man who has experienced too much and has seen too much, has fought too many battles and who has too much past he is trying to ignore and erase. I guess that it's possible to read this book as a space adventure, but I can't imagine how anybody can ignore the depth of this book. It all sounds like the basis for a good space adventure and that is also what the back page of the book tries to sell it as, but Use of Weapons is a lot more than that. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has been in a lot of wars, sometimes on the winning side, sometimes on the losing side, but always on what he thinks is the good side, because Zakalwe is not an ordinary mercenary, he works for the Culture, in their Special Circumstances division. Use of Weapons is about a mercenary who usually goes by the name Cheradenine Zakalwe - he is a couple of hundred years old and has seen a lot of battle. ![]() Buying Bank's Use of Weapons was a long shot - a friend had recommended the danish translation of Player of Games, but the (American) bookstore where I mail order most of my books didn't have PoG stocked, so I decided to try another Banks book (I have been wanting to read something by him, for quite some time, but just haven't gotten around to it). ![]()
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