Try stuff that isn’t bestsellers. There are plenty of great books available if you search even a tiny bit. I’ve read some amazing books in the past 5 years.

Thank you. What do you recommend? Maybe I’m looking at the wrong stuff.

Do you like literary fiction? Science fiction? Mysteries? Fantasy? Romance? Bios? History? Etc?

I don’t get excited about most new books with the exception of a few of my favorite authors and a few occasional novels that turn out to be good. Otherwise, I spend most of my time reading older books.

I agree with the other comment. What type of books do you like?

Try my book. It’s called Twinless: The ride exceeded the destination. I wrote it about me and my deceased twins life. Tomorrow is actually 10 years since he passed. It’s worth the read.

I am the same way.

Can you pinpoint what things were boring about those books and what elements in “quality” books excite you?

Imaginative, exciting, well researched. Sci-fi, fantasy, thriller. My favorite books are Altered Carbon, Red Dwarf, The Stars Are Legion, the Paradox series, The Fifth Wave, Hunger Games, anything by Michael Crichton or Octavia Butler.

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Yes. The proliferation of mass technology, especially digital media, is poisoning something at the heart of what allows people to make good art—something that has to with the way we relate to our narratives, personal and collective, own and other.

It's not just books; every creative field is suffering in this way except arguably television, which is holding on longer than the rest, to a large extent by cannibalizing resources from them (books, music, etc.) as they deteriorate.

There’s a lot of new books I read with lots of stream of consciousness or tell instead of show or going to a place and talking to a person to get information for like 5 chapters. I feel like some older books had a better variety of action, pacing and dialogue.

I’ve noticed this as well. Music, books and art in the last 10 years or so have just become kinda soulless because it’s all about making a lot of it and selling it for money.