Comments on: The more things change…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:07:42 +0000

After college, when I did not have to read text books, I didcovered the New York times bestseller list and for a long time read fiction exclusively from that list. I went through a short spell of reading literaly journals and discovered that the genra holds no interest for me — I like crass commercialism!

Then I spent a season or two with Romance and still do check out my favorite authors from time to time — expecially the SF Romance.

But my enduring favorte are the epic family stories with characters that develop and grow in an historic setting.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:18:08 +0000

Literary criticism. Never thought that I would ever want to pick that up, but I love it. Better than books about how to write fiction.
Fantasy. I´d just never realized there was such a thing as fantasy for adults… I thought I was going to have to read children´s books for the rest of my life to be able to read about anything magical. (I´m from The Netherlands, where any novel that´s a depressing post-WW II story is considered literature and fantasy is considered childish)
Poetry, thanks to W.B. Yeats.
Shakespeare. What can I say?

By: ryan field

ryan field — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:52:56 +0000

I’m reading more and more YA, which I never thought I would be reading ten years ago.

By: Catherine Whitney

Catherine Whitney — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:12:12 +0000

I think reading interests change and then change back. But great books can always break out amid the trends. You’ve been smart to keep such a varied, limber list. I love the variety.

By: Kristin Laughtin

Kristin Laughtin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:32:58 +0000

I used to be pretty exclusive in my SF and fantasy reading, but these days I do read a lot more literary and non-genre fiction. I’d like to read more narrative non-fiction as well, but have had trouble squeezing it in to my already bloated to-be-read list.

By: Jim Hofer

Jim Hofer — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:37:43 +0000

I’ve always been a fan of fantasy and to some degree sci/fi. Once I became a parent, I started reading a lot to my children which opened me up to a lot of books I wouldn’t have picked up on my own. Now that they don’t need me to read to them every night, I still pick up the books they are reading, especially if they talk about them a lot. They’ve introduced me to “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, “The Hunger Games”, “The City of Ember”, “Percy Jackson”, and even “Twilight” (although I think Stephanie Meyer could have taken some lessons from R.A. Salvatore to actually do something with her action scenes once she has set them up).

My youngest daughter brought home a book called, “POP”, that I only read because I thought it odd that she would have a book with two football players on it.