Since the Culture books are super loosely connected, you’re free to read them in any order you wish and you could do much worse than starting with this one. This is the seventh book in the Culture series, so expect sci-fi, superhuman artificial intelligences, various alien species (including super fascinating non humanoid ones), fantastic worlds, spaceships, a bit of (mercifully brief this time) gore and a ton of things to think about. So when I say Look to Windward was straightforward to read, it is within the context of his other books.
Banks on the other hand is happy to invent names with only the most tenuous connection to current human languages (this makes perfect sense in the fiction to be fair), joyfully weaving multiple parallel plots and timelines with seemingly nothing in common, interspersed by flashbacks. My puny brain can generally handle 2-3 easy-to-remember characters with a straightforward plot line or two. Reading Banks' books is always difficult for me. This review was originally posted at Goodreads and imported here later with next to no spell/grammar checking. Banks - Aimlessly Going Forward Aimlessly Going Forward
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