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I tried reading "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir. I just can not get into it. The writing style is just not for me. Also I have great difficulty in reading in the first person for most books, let...

I finished Ian McEwan's, "Machines Like Me." It started off well and was enjoyable to about midway, then I personally felt it lost it's way. It may be a good airport/plane read for many. Pity as it...

"The God Equation. The Quest for a Theory of Everything," by Professor Michio Kaku.

A good, generally easy to read book. Much easier than "A Brief History of Time." It made me wish that I studied...

I was trying my hardest to get through "Lanark" by Alasdair Gray. I gave up 200 pages in. I don't think that I will even go back to it. I found it very hard going. It's hard going in a different way...

Have finished two books over the last month:

"The Devil and Miss Prym," by Paulo Coelho. It started off really well and was interesting, but got a bit meh maybe 2/3's of the way through. Pity as...

Finished Charles Stross's "Singularity Sky." It reads a bit like a Culture lite novel, but with more scientific verbage and terms. Those looking for something to read after the passing of the much...

Thank you both for the suggestions. I've tried Asher, Reynolds and Morgan, but the books I tried of theirs didn't really hook me. Strangely as well as being recommended Mike Freeman, I read somewhere...

Tried "Cosmonaut Keep" by Ken MacLeod, but couldn't get into it. Have been trying Alfred Bester without much luck and even N K Jemisin "The Fifth Season," but both authors are not for me. I genuinely...

I haveve been trying to read a few books by different authors, but can't get into them. The book I am about to start is one by Iain M Banks's good friend Ken MacLeod, called "Cosmonaut Keep." Fingers...

Audio books at the moment.

Terry Pratchett, "Witches Abroad," read by Nigel Planer, Neil from the Young Ones. It was very good, mainly because of Nigel's reading. I loved his interpretation of...

Ring by Stephen Baxter.

For the sense of wonder as well as the ideas, imagination and scientific explanations it's very good. For the characters and their development as well as story development...

I've listened to a few of the Terry Pratchett books on "The Witches." I think I prefer them to "The Watch" books and the others I have read also. The characters are very likeable, I think the guy who...

Read "The Assassination of Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy." Very well researched and gripping. The majority is very believable. I enjoyed it very much.

Just finished " Matter" by Iain M Banks....

Thanks for the recommendation. I have just gone through, by the same author, "The Strange Death of David Kelly." Very disturbing the way the whole enquiry was done.

That looks interesting. I will reserve a copy with the library.

Finished "Inversions," by Iain M Banks. An attempt to do a Culture book that isn't a Culture book. It's one of his least liked books...

Have read "A Christmas Carol." It was an interesting read. Will probably try more Dickens.

Read through "The Wasp Factory," Iain Banks, and I thought it was good, but first person isn't for me.
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Thanks, where do you suggest I start with him?

Thanks for the suggestions. I have tried reading his non science fiction fiction, but most of it is written in the first person and I find it very difficult to read. Having said that I have just read...

I finished another Iain M Banks book, "Surface Detail." Another brilliant book that makes you think and concentrate to fully comprehend it as well as its analogies to real life. I am finding it...

Have put "Ulysses" on hold while I read others.

I have finished, "Look to Windward," another Culture novel by Iain M Banks. Very good read, as with all his sci-fi novels makes you think as well as...

If anyone is interested, or is having difficulty like myself with Ulysses, this is excellent as a audiobook:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2pH-DD1pFYaerbwInIQoLzoGAZfMi10L

Has anyone read "Ulysses" by James Joyce? My god what a difficult but interesting read. I have had to listen to the excellent audiobook on YouTube to make any sense of the section called "Proteus"...

Have read quite a few books recently:

Iain M Banks: "Excession" and "The Hydrogen Sonata." Both excellent reads. Iain is sorely missed and has left a huge hole in British literature and in...

Hopefully it will turn out like Iain M Banks's, "The Culture" and not like "Terminator." 👍😎

Thanks, I have "Timelike Infinity" and "Vacuum Diagrams" at the moment. Do any of the books have the Xeelee actively involved or are they always in the background?