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it's weird how as a kid I read like crazy (between poor, age, somewhat technophobe parents, and being ostracized), when I pick up and read books rarely now (when I do though I want to keep reading; I haven't burned out).

This mix of whatever was available and stuff I thought Smart People Must Like wound up being really patchy. Like I've read every Tarzan and Pellucidar story ever read, but my Dad didn't own any Barsoom stuff so I haven't read those.

And a lot of it WASN'T good. Like I religiously read Dorothy L. Sayers and Dashiell Hammett, but I also read every Pern, Xanth or Shannara thing I could grab. I started on Tom Clancy but it was too UHMERICA HOOAH and not enough LET'S NERD OUT ABOUT M2 AFVS so I stopped quickly.

(This was before I got out on my own and spent a chunk of time reading LeGuin and also Mercedes Lackey.)

I have to be curious about what other varieties of total shit my peers here have read.

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