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<blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2996715" data-attributes="member: 18832">I read a lot, and so do most of my gaming friends - put it this way: if any of them are avowed non-readers I haven't heard about it.Popular series like the Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire, Discworld, and Harry Potter tend to get passed around even to those who aren't into them enough to buy their own copies. Neil Gaiman's Sandman, too.I would say that members of SUTEKH, my university gaming society, are just as likely to lend each other their favourite books, or persuade their friends to buy them for themselves, as they are to pimp their favourite TV shows or movies - and we do a lot of that.I don't read a lot of fantasy myself - I don't like the kinds of stories you get from mainstream fantasy, especially since I thoroughly dislike The Lord of the Rings, which of course is the template for them all. My reading has lessened since I've been busy recently, but I would say that the majority of what I read is non-mainstream fantasy (Mieville, Powers, et aliis), nonfiction in the areas that fascinate me (like fringe religions), science fiction, horror, and a few specific authors from other genres or mainstream literature (like James Ellroy).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mhacdebhandia, post: 2996715, member: 18832"] I read a lot, and so do most of my gaming friends - put it this way: if any of them are avowed non-readers I haven't heard about it. Popular series like the Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire, Discworld, and Harry Potter tend to get passed around even to those who aren't into them enough to buy their own copies. Neil Gaiman's [i]Sandman[/i], too. I would say that members of SUTEKH, my university gaming society, are just as likely to lend each other their favourite books, or persuade their friends to buy them for themselves, as they are to pimp their favourite TV shows or movies - and we do a lot of that. I don't read a lot of fantasy myself - I don't like the kinds of stories you get from mainstream fantasy, especially since I thoroughly dislike [i]The Lord of the Rings[/i], which of course is the template for them all. My reading has lessened since I've been busy recently, but I would say that the majority of what I read is non-mainstream fantasy (Mieville, Powers, [i]et aliis[/i]), nonfiction in the areas that fascinate me (like fringe religions), science fiction, horror, and a few specific authors from other genres or mainstream literature (like James Ellroy). [/QUOTE]

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