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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Liminal Syzygy" data-source="post: 1344482" data-attributes="member: 1373">In my reading, I avoid this by:1) Doing a lot of research on the net for any new authors before buying2) Sticking with known-quanty authors3) Not just reading fantasy, or even genre lit helps ensure that there is a broader pallete from which to chooseHmm... I don't know. Above you say that in your first reading you just read to get a general idea of the plot and to decide if a book is worth it. Personally I tend to ruminate a lot while I'm reading. This is also related to speed reading. A lot of people I know who speed read (such as my mother) have very low retention and it is obvious they haven't put a lot of thought into it. (KB, I'm not saying this applies to all speed readers... Just to many I've known.) Of course depending on the book my pages/hour fluxuates. Some I like to savour the flavor of the description, stop to consider the full emotional impact of a scene, or even flip back in the book and reread a bunch of pages when you get a new insight (as often happens with Wolfe).Barsoomcore you seem to be doing a lot of literary analysis from a writers viewpoint, and actually in that case I can see going back to suck more marrow from the bones to enhance your own understanding of the craft. But again, I would guess that's not a typical reason.As I said above I don't think I read that much bad stuff at all. See above. It's not like I'm walking down the aisles and buying randomly shotgun style.Anyway, I'm sufficiently intrigued by this whole issue to try rereading a couple of books. Maybe the first couple of Erikson books since the fifth is due soon. <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>

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