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.

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AlotOfReading 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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".

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yomismoaqui 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	AlotOfReading 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Only the first is written by Banks, to clear up any ambiguity. They're very different books, just similarly named.

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