I was going to start with a different question, but it prompted yet another question (dontcha love it when your mind just won't take "no" or "enough's 'nuff" for an answer?)...
so, whattaya think? Is variety truly the spice of life, or is it an endless quest for tantalization?
Okay, now that you've had a chance to think about that...the orig question(s):
Do you like to stick with just one genre of reading? What invites you to try something different? I need to know these answers, as a writer whooz trying to figger out ways to unobnoxiously, in fact, to charmingly and winsomely market my works...I'd deeply apprec yr comments.
Oh, and that bridges to another critical query--what moves you when buying books as gifts?
Okay, that's enough questions. My answers:
1. I think some variety is indeed the spice 'o life...but, a spice is not nourishing, it's just a little accentuation added to the principal ingred!
2. Ergo, our consumeristic culture, our crazed media, all are so addicted to variety, to change, to "new and diff and exciting," that they're selling mostly condiments and accretions.
3. I read several diff genres because I wanna be a Renaissance man, schooled in everything!
4. Gift buying--I'm the shopper who looks at something and says, "Aha, that is perfect for X-relative/friend." And if it's not gonna be warmly embraced, then buy something they can eat or drink or use up. But gifts for the sake of gifting? Bah, humbug.
5. Best Books ever...sez who? http://thegreatestbooks.org/
