have you read Excession yet?
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halfway through The Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival, what a good name
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The Land of Infinite Fun is a good stand-in for my online life
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ive only read the first 2 but they were Very Good

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so far I've really enjoyed all of em, I'm through maybe 4.5 at this point
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Hot take: Iaian Banks can't write characters, and "Excession" was the only interesting Culture novel out of three I tried.
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whoooaaa hmmm you're not all wrong which were the other two?
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"Player of Games", which I liked for the drone, and "Consider Phlebas", which is frankly boring.
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This is why I only read Excession
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same, though with the very notable exception of Vyr Cossont
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same the Minds are the adults in the books though my favorite character is Y'breq from "Surface Detail", she's quite believable
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Fair point. What about drones, like Skaffen-Amtiskaw?
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Changer characters are ok too
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human characters are imo believably human characters most of the time... ...
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