Okay, so I'm completely new to comic book reading which I'd say is exacerbating the confusion I'm having at trying to figure out where to jump into the cluster fuck of Xmen comics. Is there a solid "start here and read in order" point for the series?
From my google searches the best I can put together is to read
this followed by Volumes 1-4 of
this
Is this a good place to start? Because I'm fairly lost to be honest.
Where do you want to start, is the question? Arguably X-Men atm isn't really
worth following so you could just jump around in the past and read what you want.
Indeed, Grant Morrison's New X-Men is a
great place to start. And while I don't give af about Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men is the natural following point.
Or you could go back to the very beginning with Giant Size X-Men #1, and start with Chris Claremont's run in the 70's. That eventually expands outward into New Mutants, Excalibur, and X-Factor. X-Men from the 70's to the start of the 90's is pretty decent.
Then you can blank out until Grant Morrison's New X-Men and Whedon's Astonishing. After that I personally stopped reading until
here. From there it's Messiah CompleX and then into Messiah War and the Utopia stuff.
But honestly I couldn't tell you where to just "get started". Just look up well-received X-Men runs and jump around, is what I do.