How do book fandoms come into this? Just wondering if they similarly provide too many seeming betrayals, or whether the less restricted 'ideal audience' means that it's possible to go down less well-worn paths.
I'm having nearly the same problem with books that I'm having with TV shows and films. It's hard to find one that seems worth the effort, and when I do, I'm often disappointed anyway. Publishers have been hit hard by the economic mess, so they're publishing less and taking fewer risks in terms of what they're willing to publish. And I have strong, idiosyncratic preferences in fiction (don't generally like so-called "literary fiction," don't like the romance-plus-vampires-or-werewolves potboilers that are clogging the sff market, don't like the tough urban drug-focused police procedurals and serial-killer-thrillers that dominate the mystery market, and would greatly prefer a queer male character in a major role) so my pool of potential reading is not very big to start with.
Then there's the somewhat separate issue of book fandoms, as distinct from books I like. There aren't many books that have active fandoms, and most of them don't interest me at all. Whereas books that I wish did have fandoms (e.g. Le Carré's Smiley novels, China
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Then there's the somewhat separate issue of book fandoms, as distinct from books I like. There aren't many books that have active fandoms, and most of them don't interest me at all. Whereas books that I wish did have fandoms (e.g. Le Carré's Smiley novels, China ( ... )
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