[GlenBarrington]

I read a wide variety of material and most of my new stuff is selected in the manner you describe. But once I find something I like, I try to get more of it. (Apparently, I have an addictive personality.) And I gorge myself on that something until I am sick of it.

One advantage of this approach is that I see the good and the bad of that something very quickly. I don't go through large periods of my life thinking I like something when in actuality, I don't.

Now that I think about it, I've done this with religion, education, politics, business, art, marriage. . . A big part of the spectrum of human endeavor, I guess. Some of that stuff I still like, some of it I don't!