>Brad said:
>
>> I thought that the consensus on the Culture list was that _Player of
>> Games_ was the best first Iain M. Banks book to read, with _Consider
>> Phlebas_ a close second.
>
>I read _Player of Games_ first and thought it was a good introduction to
>the Culture universe as well as an excellent sf novel.
Well, yes. When I wrote that _Player of Games_ was the best to read
first, I was thinking of you. Only it seemed more impressive to write
that it was the "consensus of the Culture list" rather than the
"off-the-cuff opinion of Rich Baker.
>In retrospect,
>however, I think that I'd rather have read _Consider Phlebas_ because
>that novel probably loses some of its effect when the reader knows too
>much about the Culture.
So what has made you change your mind?
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