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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9853626" data-attributes="member: 78087">I’ve dropped out of audiobooks generally, mostly because my commute is quite short now. 6+ years ago, I used to drive an hour to and from work and so I’d listen to podcasts on the way there and audiobooks on the way back, and quite a few were genre. The Curse of Chalion, The House of the Stag, Steelheart (loved the way the narrator sold “Calamity!” as an exclamation). But now that’s a whole medium I don’t use any more. I don’t refuse to use it, it’s just out of use.I used to be really into console fighting games, especially in the PS era. Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Tekken, Bloody Roar, Psychic Force, Bushido Blade. The last three were pretty unique - BR is Werewolf the fighting game, PF was flying superhero 3D ranged and close combat in a constrained arena (a bit like many anime, like X), and BB tried to model real sword injuries (pretty easy to kill your opponent in the first second if you knew what you were doing). But now I don’t have the reflexes.I’m definitely off fantasy/sci-fi series. I seem to often find the first book interesting but it usually ends on a cliffhanger and then the remaining books are various flavours of tedious and disappointing. I much prefer standalones (or maybe books in a shared world, like Vernon’s Paladin books) but I really have no time for the Sanderson model. There are a couple of exceptions, usually shorter series, such as Novik’s Scholomance series.I really have little truck with horror. I’ve read quite a few Kings but not for ages, and mostly I can bear a small amount of necessary horror (The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Vampires was just about too much for me, but it’s very good otherwise), but it’s generally a turn-off.</blockquote>

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