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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1497430" data-attributes="member: 8447">Some authors take time, especially if my friends like them -- I read through three Tim Powers books before I fell to disliking him, mainly because of all the praise.  Heinlein?  Gave him 2 books.  Marion Zimmer Bradley?  One and six pages of another.  Zelazny?  Half of the first Amber book.  Then there are the authors with whom I have loved a single book, but disliked the others, such as Herbert with Dune.  Nowadays I am much more cherry about recommendations.  I have been burnt many times and now choose my reading a bit more carefully.  I have dozens of authors I love, and several topics that I enjoy researching.  I find that I dislike most "game" novels and, indeed, a lot of sci fi and fantasy (I don't even tell people that I like these genres -- I tell them that I like particular authors, like Kay, De Lint, or Constantine).  So I am willing to read up a bit, but not much; with many new authors, I try them out on the library's dime first  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>