How do I lower my reading standards?

[ThatOneReader]

Like anime I watched too many and now barely any entertained me so I went to manga and now it's the same there and now after reading for a while its been getting harder to find books that I enjoy long term without dropping them mid way.

I still enjoy quite a few but I'd like to lower my standards to enjoy books of lesser quality too y'know? Any tips besides not reading for a while?

 

[Lloyd]

Drink

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Stop reading and watching ongoings. Read some stuff that is old and is completed.

 

[killwrites]

Start writing your own story that will satisfy you and read it

 

[JayDirex]

You sound burned out on the usual stuff you read.

I won't tell you to stop reading, since that's what you do. But I will advise you try reading something different.

(There's way more stuff out here than just genderbender.)

 

[ThrillingHuman]

Read good literature and put in the effort to read

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Drink

This.

Start writing your own story that will satisfy you and read it

This too.

Lowering standards is easy. Lowering the threshold of amusement is another story. That seems to be your real problem. I suggest reading with friends.

The game dead age and dead age 2 sucks. However, I play it with my wife and we spend so much time mocking the game it is hysterical.

 

[Dudealien]

read my book

 

[Awasti]

Read mtl to lower your standard.( never tried it myself)

 

[ThatOneReader]

Read mtl to lower your standard.( never tried it myself)

what's mtl

You sound burned out on the usual stuff you read.

I won't tell you to stop reading, since that's what you do. But I will advise you try reading something different.

(There's way more stuff out here than just genderbender.)

True that fact's kinda been staring me in the face but it's hard to stray away from a genre sometimes when you're looking to relive a reading experience but on second thought I'm really just limiting myself thanks!

 

[Ruyi]

why lower your standards at all? sounds like it'd just make you less satisfied for less gain.

i'd say take some time to make a list of series you do like, see if there's similarities in them, and look for more series with those similarities. there are so many works of fiction in the world and many of them are still very good, but as readers we also need to work to parse out works that fit our tastes. a break from blindly reading/watching to fine tune your filters might help.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

what's mtl

My Transvestite Lover
...
I assume.

 

[Arkus86]

what's mtl

True that fact's kinda been staring me in the face but it's hard to stray away from a genre sometimes when you're looking to relive a reading experience but on second thought I'm really just limiting myself thanks!

Machine translation. After you try it, you will suddenly feel that many novels you though had bad quality before, might not be so bad after all.

 

[Nihilism]

Like anime I watched too many and now barely any entertained me so I went to manga and now it's the same there and now after reading for a while its been getting harder to find books that I enjoy long term without dropping them mid way.

I still enjoy quite a few but I'd like to lower my standards to enjoy books of lesser quality too y'know? Any tips besides not reading for a while?

Maybe, you are getting bored from the consumer lifestyle! If you are I recommend, Moving on from being a consumer! You should try producing stuff, such as stories!

 

[PeacefulMyst]

Read machione translated xianxias. As a xianxia addict, I can confirm even the most shittiest trash will make me think it is gold

 

[ThrillingHuman]

I opened the site and read "how do I lower my breeding standards"

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I opened the site and read "how do I lower my breeding standards"

How?

 

[Renaxan]

Turn off your brain when reading low standard novel even though it is fucking pure poison, repeat until you developed 'poison resistance.'

 

[Macha]

Like anime I watched too many and now barely any entertained me so I went to manga and now it's the same there and now after reading for a while its been getting harder to find books that I enjoy long term without dropping them mid way.

I still enjoy quite a few but I'd like to lower my standards to enjoy books of lesser quality too y'know? Any tips besides not reading for a while?

Do this exercise before you start reading:

Spoiler

 

[ZombieHat]

Maybe try to expand your entertainment media and branch out into different things instead of just manga and anime? If all you eat day in and day out is chicken. Chicken will start to taste bland and gross and it will be less exciting to you. But if you switch it up a bit and have some veggies, fruits, other meats and such, chicken will still excite you and taste great.