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Originally Posted by Uncle Pony
Nice sense of humor.  We may get along yet. 
It really depends on what the book is about and how well it's written. I stopped at about 180 pages of Orwell's 1984 because it bored the shit out of me. I've never read Anne Raynd and probably never will because of the political messages in her work. I read to relax. If I want political messages I'll read Micheal Savage, Anne Coulter, or Al Franken. (BTW, I've never read them either.) |
Cheers, I do have a sense of humour as well as a political side
1984 is a horribly sad story. Iain Banks is normally more upbeat. (not always!)
There are no political rants that I can recall. He's a writer and graduate of English not Politics. He might only mention Communism once in a novel.
It's a way off vision of Communism - wealth for all, drugs for all, no money, smart AI's ruling much, giant intelligent space ships. Violence is rarely fun in the stories and always has consequences