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  D. Scott

  3.0 out of 5 stars Great book, terrible Kindle conversion

  Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 October 2010

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  This is a great addition to the Culture series of books - was very much looking forward to it, and enjoyed it an awful lot. I won't go into the detail of plot, characters etc. any more than saying that it was great, they were interesting, etc.
  
  As a book, it deserves five stars. The hardcover version would have got this from me.
  
  However, I read the Kindle version, and the Kindle version has been lazily put together, I'm guessing from an earlier manuscript version. It has missing or half completed paragraphs. Very frustrating.
  
  It flows quite often from one sub-chapter to the next without a line break to let you know - you're reading the dialogue from one perspective, get confused after a few lines and a paragraph later realise that you've got to go back as it's actually another character's dialogue.
  
  There are spelling / word usage mistakes - not hundreds, but definitely 30+, which sometimes you can skim past but a few had me furrowing my brow trying to think what Banks actually meant/wrote.
  
  In short, I still enjoyed it, but am putting in a complaint to Amazon about their shoddy work.

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