Reading Advice?

[forestofglory]

There are a couple of things I want to read thanks to FOGcon but I'm not quite sure where to start.

More China Mieville. I've read The City and the City which I really liked, but I'm so not sure what to read next.

The Culture Books by Ian M. Banks. So he's written a lot of books and I'm not even sure which ones are the culture and which ones aren't let alone a good reading order.

Advice please?

(These weren't the only book recs -- just the one's I'd like advice about.)

Comments

[jack]

I would generally agree with that assessment, but I was thinking not so much of things that are lacking, as bits that seem to me to dwell a little too much on pain and torture. Not endorsing it or anything, and often very relevant, but mentioning slightly gruesome things quite commonly. (Not really in Phlebas, and easily skip-past-able in Player of Games, but in all the books a bit.)

When you say 1st ect do you mean 1st in publication order or 1st in chronological order?

I don't know, the first in the order they're listed on wikipedia. I think that's publication order, and the internal chronology is roughly the same, except for one or two books in the middle which are far-far-past or far-far-future. But I can't really remember.

[forestofglory]

Ok -- this was very helpful thanks.

[jack]

Thanks