My copy of The Beach was misbound, leading to a confusing reading experience - after jumping off the cliff it cut to the food poisoning bit, to me it seemed like they blacked out on hitting the water and woke up disoriented and sick through concussion, but who were all these other characters who our protagonists seemed to know already?
Tokarczuk is my new favourite author but voting Excession as probably the best Culture novel.
― ledge, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 07:36 (two years ago) link