I like asking this every couple of months. I’m currently reading the first book of the Three Body Problem and the book I finished before it was a book about Angels by Billy Graham that my mother gave me when I was in middle school but finally read recently. Better late than never
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Culture series (IMO) goes off the rails after you've read ~3-4 books. Banks was a communist, and his vision of The Culture is essentially communism with AIs managing everything.
The problem this poses for the books is that Banks presents The Culture as this ultimate post--problem setting, so basically all of the actual stories are taking place outside of The Culture. By the 3rd book taking place in some relative-backwater space-feudalism, the formula wore a bit thin.