I love to read. I think I posted the quote that a person who does not read has no advantage over one who cannot read.

But the current trend in popular  Western literature, arguably created by the Harry Potter series and Ann Rice's Vampire Chronicles, has everyone out there, (well, not everyone), jumping on the serialization band wagon.  What a frigging bore.  Did Hemingway serialize?  Did Dostoevsky?  Shakespeare? Saint-Exupery?  Hell, no, because they were capable of original thought and of creating individual characters and plot lines in each new work and didn't have to depend on hacking out crap in twos, threes and fives.

It gets boring as hell and displays an almost total absence of imagination.