Pickiness with Books

I've noticed something about myself. The self-proclaimed avid book-lover is damn picky about books. I don't know why, but my tastes tend to go towards those of science-fiction and fantasy. Its either that, or non-fiction, being either in introductory book on some concept, like relativity, and the like. I've tried picking up a crime novel, but find myself uninterested. I just don't like stories with morbid settings. I like stories with a 'nice' background.

Now that i think of it, the only 'real' life books i have enjoyed are those children books on hostel life and such. Maybe necause adults tend to paint a 'cheery' sort of world to children, because all of those books contain cconstructive themes, theres always the suggestion of improvement. Stark contrast to the modern day crime novel, dark and morbid and stagnant. Thats why now i only go for either extreme unreality, eg SciFi and Fantasy, or extreme reality, which are documentary books, say Introduction to Einstein, or Mathematics, or Darwinism, and my most recent collection, Introducing Buddhism. The former lets me escape while the latter makes me proud of the human race, to have invented or found certain enlightening concepts.

However, the only thing worrying me now is that what if i run out of SciFi and Fantasy? What if i get jaded with those too? it is a thought too scary to think about. I will have nothing to read. Sigh.The only thing left to do will be to turn to Manga and Animation. Which might not be that bad of an idea, actually.

Current Mood: Raving.