Comment by yomismoaqui
3 hours ago
I think that literate people can recover from a period of not reading (books) at all.
I recently had more than a year of not reading any books that was interrupted when I found about The Culture series. I read Use of Weapons and had to read all novels from that universe. After that I tried to find some books similar to them, tried to read some recommended ones (didn't finish any of them) and stopped reading.
In my case reading books is a kind of fever that I get every year or so.
Unfortunately there really aren't any other books like the culture series. You might enjoy Banks' "The Algebraist" and the completely unrelated though similarly named "The Alchemist".
As I like how Banks writes and they are not directly related to The Culture they won't have to meet the expectations of the others I tried.
Thanks, will read them.
Only the first is written by Banks, to clear up any ambiguity. They're very different books, just similarly named.