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This book found me laid out on a local 'take one' book table. Having thought a lot about my place and role as a man in the feminist reality I want to be part of this seems like a useful source of information.

A friend was giving this away after reading it. I'm not a Fantasy reader but I love sci-fi so intrigued how this novel that steps between the two goes for me.

A super short, but deep story with surreal and magical experiences it leaves you questioning what is really happening and what the symbolism might be.

A fun little book that is only the second I have read in a Culture series. I'm told it is very different to thr other books in the series. I really enjoyed to two tales and the framing device that joins them together.

Picked up at a bookshop because I'd cycled there and needed a small book I could put in my bike bag.

@ospalh thanks for your warning about the overly descriptive prose, as I was looking out for it I started to enjoy it and get a 'here he goes again..." moment.

Previously read Excsession and enjoyed it

Going for a nonfiction book as a break

Found this book to be a real slog, did not enjoy the writing style and found the stories uncompelling.

Recommended by a colleague