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Just wondering -- were there so few comments on my giant post o'book reviews because nobody had anything to say, or because nobody bothered to read them? (If it's the latter, I can safely give up feeling guilty over not posting book reviews of most of the stuff I read and just stop doing it.)

In other news: halfway through the first day of no sweets, and it's going fine. Not that I usually indulge this early in the day, anyway...

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[yhlee]

You're doing better than I usually do for comments. :-D At this point, I mostly stubbornly post on RPG/game stuff because I care about it, even if most people reading me don't.

I skimmed that post because most of the books seemed to be things I wouldn't be interested in reading anyway (I don't mind mystery as a genre, but I have so many things on my to-read pile that I'm not taking it on right now). I mostly read review posts if they're about books I might conceivably pick up to read on my own inclination. (This means that I categorically skip romance novel reviews, yeah.)

[telophase]

I tend to read the romance reviews that come trhough my f-list, but that's because most of them are "I hate myself for reading this and here's why," or "This book is cracktastic! Here's why!" I don't actually pick the book itself up. XD

(There was only one mystery in the bunch, and I didn't get mroe than three chapters in! XD Not that the rest of them seem like the sort of book you'd go for, anyway. I do have Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible sitting on my Kindle, waiting to be read...)

[yhlee]

See, for a physics book I would definitely be at attention reading your review because I incline that way to begin with. :-) I might not have anything to say about the review, though, if I hadn't read the book (and beyond that, I'm not a physicist anyway). The mystery was just an example, but yeah.

Most of what I get from talking to a romance writer of my acquaintance is that the genre is even more alien than I realize, and if I read more of it I would see just how alien the conventions are to me (note: not wrong, just different), but she says it would be very rare for me to enjoy a romance, and from my limited explorations in the area, I tend to concur. If someone wrote a math-based romance [1], I would totally be there, but I am cognizant that this would be such a tiny potential audience that it would largely not be worth anyone's while to write. ^_^

[1] I tried once, but failed miserably. It was an experiment back in college. ^_^

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In high school and undergrad, I could consume romances like candy, but somehow lost the ability to tolerate them over the years. I even picked one up a couple of years back, because so many people loved it, and there was great praise for how the writer handled one aspect of it, so I figured that I could at least get that out of it, if nothing else.

I bounced off the first ten pages, hard. Eventually swapped it on paperbackswap.com.