Maybe one day I'll get the taste to retry it, as I have all four PBs.

I'm not a *huge* fan of Fantasy, though. I'm not a fan of genres, so much as writers. Some I love, a lot leave me totally indifferent, and it's often very hard for me to pinpoint what I like and don't. It's not always about originality, or good writing, or realism, or a sub-genre I like and another I don't. I love Tolkien, Jordan and Martin, Erikson, Miéville, Lynch, Wolfe - all terribly different writers, and often people who like one or two of these will really hate the others (eg: not a whole lot of people who enjoy literary writers like Wolfe will also have much fun with reading Jordan). OTOH, I can't stand Monette, Brooks, Goodkind, Hobbs, Eddings - and everything King wrote that touched Fantasy (though some of his other books, I've liked). I'm not that big a fan of quests/epics, but some of what I like is that, and a lot of what I don't like isn't. *shrugs*. I enjoy long stuff, and details, but then Miéville has interesting stuff, but his books are hardly a panorama of worldbuilding, and his stories are stand alones, and yet he's one of my favourites and I love his prose and it's a fair part of my enjoyement of his novels. Jordan's hardly a master of prose, but that doesn't bother me one bit when I read him. I'm really not a huge fan of military stuff, yet I like Erikson. With non-genre fiction, which I read more of, it's even more complicated, going from very literary writers to others judged to be very light and popular (usually the "guilty pleasures" stuff, though I frankly don't feel guilty one bit. If it's fun it's fun, period). I'm not really a good person to whom recommend books on the "if you liked X, you'll enjoy Y" basis. Very often, it doesn't work.

I don't know exactly what bored me with Williams's Fantasy. I think in part I really enjoyed how he woved mythology and Fantasy-inspired characters and themes into a near future SF series, but I really couldn't connect so far to any of his "real deal" Fantasy characters.