Consider Phlebas is ridiculous [Early book spoilers]

It's my first book of The Culture and after the first five chapters of Consider Phlebas (up to and including the Megaship) I have decided the best way to describe the story so far is "ridiculous"... and I can't even decide if that is high praise or criticism.

In the first third of this book, Horza has been almost drowned in piss and shit, blown out into space, had a bare knuckle fight to the death, been in a firefight against monks... got laid... been in a "Titanic-esque" ship crash into an iceberg, been almost nuked and now at this point - a shuttle crash into the ocean. [No spoilers past this point PLEEEEEASE... I should probably finish the book before posting but what the hell]

I started off by rolling my eyes, every time something went wrong for Horza but I think I'm starting to enjoy it and I'm coming round to the idea that "Murphys Law" might be the whole point of the story. I read a small quote by Banks who said something about Consider Phlebas to be the story of a drowning man, not literally, but he's trying to keep his head above the water and shit just keeps dragging him deeper.

So yeah, I started off being like "wtf this is ridiculous 👎" ...and now I'm kind of at "omg this is ridiculous 👍"