I don't think you're alone in this. I read bugger all genre fiction these days. I find nearly all fantasy books to be derivative drivel and most sci-fi books to be mostly pretentious crap.
These days, I tend to read either thrillers (particularly psychological ones), stuff like Robert Pirsig (which challenges my thinking) or my guilty pleasure, which is modern pulp adventure (ala Clive Cussler, Matthew Reilly or Jack du Brul).
When I first started writing - particularly RPG material - I had this burning desire to have the surface level of the game by metaphoring for the stuff that's really going on, which usually revolved around the curing of mental neuroses. I can't say if I was successful or not, but at least that was my intention.
Although I drifted away from that somewhat, lately I find myself starting to come back to it, as the reason for actually writing stuff. It's something I'd like to become more conscious of and adept at, and that's going to take some effort.
I don't think you're alone. I'm sure people like bruceb, Greg Stolze and others would all tell similar stories. All the best writers are doing it, too :)
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Date: 2003-07-23 04:46 pm (UTC)These days, I tend to read either thrillers (particularly psychological ones), stuff like Robert Pirsig (which challenges my thinking) or my guilty pleasure, which is modern pulp adventure (ala Clive Cussler, Matthew Reilly or Jack du Brul).
When I first started writing - particularly RPG material - I had this burning desire to have the surface level of the game by metaphoring for the stuff that's really going on, which usually revolved around the curing of mental neuroses. I can't say if I was successful or not, but at least that was my intention.
Although I drifted away from that somewhat, lately I find myself starting to come back to it, as the reason for actually writing stuff. It's something I'd like to become more conscious of and adept at, and that's going to take some effort.
I don't think you're alone. I'm sure people like