Variety
I have a voracious appetite when it comes to books but tended to get stuck in a rut with particular authors (hence I've read every Stephen King, Wilbur Smith, Robert Rankin, Dan Brown book etc).

Bored with this and instinctively distrustful of critics I've now start reading books that other people have chosen in book shops. I simply loiter around watching what "totally random stranger" chooses and buy the same book.

There are some rules but this random library generator has thrown up a few good reads (Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicom being one and Kurt Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse-Five amongst them).

Naturally a few dogs have been ploughed through (mainly 2nd generation chick-lit) but on the whole, a rewarding strategy.
(Mediaslut, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 7:45, Reply)