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Jul. 24th, 2011 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightreadsOkay, you guys were so great last time, let’s try this again. Any opinions on where one ought to start with these guys? Cautionary tales?
• Iain M. Banks’s Culture series: I understand they’re mostly standalones and that the first book by pub order is not great, so where do I start?
• Charles de Lint: *gestures helplessly* that is a pile of books.
• Andre Norton: ditto
• Gene Wolfe
Also, if anyone can rec a relatively sane biography of Anne Boleyn, I’d be most grateful. For values of “relatively sane” meaning with at least a pretense at considering evidence before speculating.
• Iain M. Banks’s Culture series: I understand they’re mostly standalones and that the first book by pub order is not great, so where do I start?
• Charles de Lint: *gestures helplessly* that is a pile of books.
• Andre Norton: ditto
• Gene Wolfe
Also, if anyone can rec a relatively sane biography of Anne Boleyn, I’d be most grateful. For values of “relatively sane” meaning with at least a pretense at considering evidence before speculating.
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Date: 2011-07-25 01:33 pm (UTC)I have a memory of a very strong, weird, emotional impression from Norton's Forerunner Foray, and then later going "Ooohhhhh, Andre's a girrrrl!" Didn't read all of the Forerunner series because my public library didn't have it all, and back then that was All There Was. So I don't know whether Foray is the best entry point to the series.