/lit/ - Literature

>it's another "author spent all their time playing Civ instead of writing so the book got delayed and is basically a themed Civ lets play" book

Excession is my favorite book, although I do find it hard choosing out of a few of Iain M. Bank's novels. I know /lit/ is probably going to hate me for it seeing as it's not particularly high brow, but I really enjoy his particular sense of humour and his writing style. Anyone else have any thoughts on this or any of his other stuff? I prefer it to a lot of other sci-fi because it doesn't really pretend to be anything that it isn't.

>inb4 I'm called a pleb for not listing one of the "classics"

Reading Excession from his culture series at the moment. What does /lit/ think of Banks in general? Both sci-fi and other genres.