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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 2413765" data-attributes="member: 509">I'm not sure what I liked. I've probably read well over a hundred fantasy books by now, most of them in my early teens, many of whom I've been entertained by but only a handful that I've actually liked.Tolkien, Prachett, Martin, Howard, Gaiman, Lewis, Rowling. These I liked.The rest? Meh.Today I hardly read any fantasy at all. I've pretty much given up. Overall I'm just much more picky when it comes to books. A bad movie robs me of couple of hours,a bad book takes much more. I want to be grabbed by books. I want something thatI've not seen before. A new idea. The idea can be theme, plot, characters, writingstyle, twist or concept or whatever. Just give me a new experience of some kind.Else I get bored.The only "soft" reading I do nowadays are the detective/thriller stories and such. Somehow, I'm more forgiving when it comes to them. Just as I can watch CSI and thecountless UK detective series forever, it seems.</blockquote>