Re: Iain M Bank books
Agree Use of Weapons best first "M" book.
The wasp factory, song of stone, whit, the crow road or the business are all good first choices for the none SF books. His last (the quarry) I thought was weak and insufficiently edited/revised; not surprising given his imminent death. The steep approach to Garbadale I think is poor compared to the others. I enjoyed canal dreams (actually that would be fine as a first one too albeit now dated) and espadair street (very Scottish; very 90s music-y).
I've not read dead air, complicity or stonemouth. And I'm sure there's a few I've missed.
(I read quite a lot)
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