Have your book-tastes changed over the years? More fiction? Less? Books that are darker and more serious? Lighter and more frivolous? Challenging? Easy? How-to books over novels? Mysteries over Romance?
Definitely. I was, as a younger man, a great Jack Vance fan. Nowadays, I find his writing to be all colour and pomp, with no substance. His characters are mere ciphers, travelling through vibrant and strange worlds.
If anything, I've gotten darker and more serious in my tastes. Add weird to that, too.
I'm a hell of a lot fussier about what I read now, and I actually have little patience with reading anything not immediately engaging. I'm usually too busy spending my creative time writing.
When I do read, I rarely give books the benefit of the doubt I did when I was younger. If they don't grab me by page 10, they get put on the shelf for good, or returned to the library ASAP.
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What I do find, is that with what I read now I find fault quicker. If a sentence pulls me out, I take more notice now. Before wouldn't have understood why something didn't work... now I do. Which can be annoying.
Anyway... hope that kind of answered this...
I hardly read any fiction anymore. If I do, it's usually a compilation of short fiction. I like to put down a book feeling like I learned something in some way. I'm not saying I only read how-to books or dry biographies. I love travelogues ("Blue Highways", "A Walk Across America"). I also like alternate-view biographies.
That's not to say I don't enjoy a good novel. "The Time Traveler's Wife" was very entertaining. But I can't do my own research on the characters and locations afterward.
I still read just about anything, but whether or not I go back to read more by the author really depends on that first book.