I will be forever grateful to the internet for giving me other people who read my books. Before then I'd never had people for all of them - the boys who shared Danny Dunn with me in third grade weren't reading Little Women or the All-of-a-Kind family; Mom read Zenna Henderson and Anne McCaffrey but not Asimov or Heinlein; the SF readers I met in high school weren't also reading Agatha Christie or L.M. Montgomery and on the flip side I've never read SF-must-reads like, oh, Robert Jordan or Kim Stanley Robinson.
Online I can find *someone* who loves any one of the kinds of books I love, and a surprising number of people who love a lot of them. And in turn that leads me to more of the books I love that I haven't yet encountered (I have been online since about 1986; the number of books I've read and loved purely because of online recs is hard to number by this point.)
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Date: 2011-07-20 05:52 am (UTC)Online I can find *someone* who loves any one of the kinds of books I love, and a surprising number of people who love a lot of them. And in turn that leads me to more of the books I love that I haven't yet encountered (I have been online since about 1986; the number of books I've read and loved purely because of online recs is hard to number by this point.)