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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

I Think I Have Outgrown Fantasy

I never thought I would feel this way, actually. I rarely check new releases on fantasy recently. It's not that I don't like it anymore but as I grow older my reading preference changes and this might be the case. My hearts used to race whenever I see new fantasy books. I had this feeling of wanting to read them all, no matter how long the series are.


Not anymore.

I could not care less about the newest fantasy books. I am super picky now that dragons and wizards won't really catch my attention as easily as before. I am kind of grumpy because they are not as much fantasy for adults around (or do I have to search for them harder?) Most of them are for young adult and as I have said before, I am not into young adult books.

*Shrugs*

You know, back into my teenage years, I was a crazy romance reader. I love the tales about men and women finding their true love, especially ones that are filled with comedy. I read tons of those Harlequin romance during high school, while my friends were reading Harry Potter which I didn't read until two years ago. I am weird, I know and I even have the strangest book craving.

I have outgrown fantasy (and romance) obviously. What if I outgrown other genres too and I have less and less genres to choose from. I hope this is only temporary and I am glad I live in a modern world where we have a big population on talented authors. As long as they never run out of ideas, I will always have something to read, right?

Now, what about you? Do you have any genre that you used to love but now seems less interesting? What do you do to keep your reading passion alive? Please share!




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Francesca · 517 weeks ago

I think it's normal to outgrow old interests as our tastes change. I used to love reading Chick-lit a lot and now probably only read a couple from this genre a year. I try and look for new authors I've never read anything from for inspiration and have actually started to get into crime fiction a little bit which is like the antithis to chick lit haha not being a YA fan also makes things difficult. It seems like half the books released nowadays are from this genre!
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Citra 66p · 515 weeks ago

I don't think I will even outgrow chiklit though, I still need them from time to time to relax my mind a bit. I am glad nowadays, chiklit has various stories and it just doesn't stuck with a girl in a big city and something like that. I agree with you that not ebing a YA fan makes things somehow more difficult. This world is really saturated with YA book I guess :D
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kenny · 256 weeks ago

I know this is an post, but i have outgrown fiction for the most part. I still enjoy the occasional fantasy novel. I used to want to be a novelist growing up. But here is the thing. 4.3 Billion people make 5 dollars or less a day. So with so much suffering in the world, dedicating my life to learning how to tell an entertaining story seems well pointless. Their are real problems in the world. So this fact has turned me away from just reading fantasy book after fantasy book. No judgment for those that do though. Nothing wrong with entertainment, but when that isour biggest priority then.... well yeah there is something wrong with that.

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