Comments on: Generalizing About Specialist Readers

By: The Five Book Challenge 2010 — Bill Ward

The Five Book Challenge 2010 — Bill Ward — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:30:47 +0000

[...] ruts, both getting stuck in them and bouncing out of them. Maybe it was that post at Black Gate on Generalists and Specialists that got me thinking along those lines, but it seems to me even the most eclectic tastes can [...]

By: hagelrat

hagelrat — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:58:43 +0000

Sadly I can’t comment over there, but excellent article. I go through a similar thing with reading as music. Every so often I discover something nre and obsess gathering as much as I can for a while before moving on, but I never stop liking the things that went before. With the exception of a few writers I read as a teen but wouldn’t go back to I just keep adding to my reading choices and becoming more general.

By: Friday’s Links: book pricing controversies, m-readers, and what we mean when we talk about bad writing « Booklife

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:39:40 +0000

[...] Writer Bill Ward examines some common generalizations about “specialist readers.” [...]