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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
My parents never read anything other than my dad reading the newspaper. It's a miracle that my brother and I turned out to be avid readers.
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Hm. When younger, my Dad read westerns, but he stopped doing that at around the age of 15, because he suddenly got the idea that reading was something that only children do, or something you do when stuyding something.
My mom read romance, together with my aunt, but she stopped reading those when my aunt switched to reading only "It really happened" stories/biographies about gruesome abuse of kidnapped people and such.
Therefore, both of my parents effectively stopped reading long before I was born. My aunt still reads her gruesome true stories that are often worse than anything Stephen King can dream up.
I read books for school, and later started reading mostly fantasy, with some sidesteps into adventures, the (ancient) classics, crime, detective, sci-fi, and mysteries. I've always been a reader, finishing my "reading levels" at school 4 years ahead of schedule. My parents often told me that if I didn't stop that, I'd read my brains out.
On the other hand, my sister doesn't even seem to know what a book is.
Normally I don't really "switch genre"; I sometimes drift off from one genre into another one. Do you know this? I use it to find new authors in roughly the same genre, but it does cause you to drift off, obviously:
The Literature Map
The closer an author is to the one you put in (which is in the middle), the more they write in a similar genre or style. See attachment...