New Horizons

I read a TON, but it's mostly in the same genre (fantasy, with smatterings of Sci-fi.) But lately I've been expanding my horizons a bit, just for giggles. I read a western called Shane recently, and it was good. I started another western called The Outcasts, and it was super boring . . . despite have two gun-fights, a couple bounty hunters, and an orphaned baby dumped on a roving, wrongly-accused outlaw, all within the first 50 pages. I mean, how do you manage to make that boring?

. . . anyway. I've read a few skanky romance novels too (skipping the raciest parts), and one of those was actually pretty engaging. Most recently I read Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, which was very enjoyable, and I'ma have to nab the 2nd one. Admittably, there's a definite sci-fi twist to it, being about a 200-year-old Victor Frankenstein running around modern day New Orleans and building a New Race of super-humans to take over the world . . . but it read as a very good detective/mystery/suspense novel (which I understand is what he's good at). Kind of CSI crossed with X-files. :D It was lovely, and I think I'll check out some more Koontz after I read the rest of the Frankenstein series. However many are in it. (Oh crap . . . I just checked, and its a trilogy, the last of which is coming out this year . . . which means waiting . . . Bah.)

So yeah. Expanding my reading horizons. I'm especially open to suggestions for good books to read outside of my preferred genre . . . :) Easier to pick up something someone else likes than to wander aimlessly through unfamiliar parts of the library and end up picking up another Outcasts . . . :)