oh yesss!! i really enjoy reading the good ones.. its like reading what you want to see happen in a series because other people want to see it happen as well!

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I do occasionally. It's kind of the same to how I regard doujinshi. Only if the style, artwise-writingwise-plotwise is incredibly similar to the original. And unfortunately that is fairly uncommon.

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Time to time, but not often. Mostly occurs when I read or watch something (a series, anime, manga, or maybe a game/etc.), and it gets my adrenaline going and I have a need to read some sort of fanfic of it.

I read a lot more original fiction though. That, I do on a daily basis.

I love good FF, sometimes I consider them as an extension to the canon.

The best FF I've ever read is called 'Bad Joke'- an interpretation of the Joker x Harley 'Mad Love' into Nolanverse. I can picture Brittany Murphy playing the role, the FF is so well-written that I feel like I'm 'watching' a Joker-centric sequel of the Dark knight. It also comes with a 'soundtrack'- Bach's Fugue in G Minor at the ending scene. Beautiful! ^^

Another great FF is called 'Darkness becomes her', a Persephone x Hades themed fic. I always look forward to the author's weekly updates.

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No, in fact I kind of despise it. Why? I'm not sure.
Maybe because most of them are written REALLY badly.

Definitely! I just don't read much for manga. Mostly, it's for... Harry Potter. *coughs*

I only really read HP fanfiction regularly because there's such a wide variety of authors/genres to choose from, too many characters to count, and you could basically write about anything and it would still be interesting. I just like the HP world, I guess you can say.

Occasionally, though, if I'm really unsatisfied with an ending (of a whole series, or just a character's plotline), I'll read up on something else. That way, I can pretend like the series or plotline (of TV, manga, whatever) ended that way. :x

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Never read any.not sure if i want to.how good are they?

Well there is a wide range of quality but to be frank, IMHO it goes something like this:
(this from my own experience, maybe I was lucky or unlucky)

~3% {+-2%} Really really good ones, excellent stories comparable to reads from professionals writers and usually as good story as the one from which it originated (I also found one that was better but the source from which it drew on was just above average ) Here usually there is also excellent writing, spelling, grammar and format. (Well by default in fanfiction you can't expect everything to be flawless even with beta. There is a large percentile of writers that English isn't their primary language). Many original plots and interesting twists on them or existing ones (found also on other stories) and smartly written... I could go on but, to be short, these are stories that it is my belief could be published (if there weren't fanfiction that is).

~7%{+-5%} Good ones, you will appreciate them, many of them maybe as much as the original, and it's a nice little escapade from the real word and/or from the source's world (If it's a very AR story). Highly enjoyable. Also original themes but mostly there are usual themes that are found also on other stories of the same category but there original twists and/or are written really good so you will enjoy them nonetheless. The same reason you will read a fantasy story with a similar setting and story you have read in another book. Just because you have read LOTR doesn't mean I will never read another fantasy book with dwarfs epic wars and wizards again, right? I also found stories in this percentile that was my belief that they could be published. (Not all published books are the same quality). Usually minor errors in spelling and grammar.

~15{+-5%} So-so to decent ones. They are okay. You will most likely enjoy them but most often than not you will read them in a hurry or half-hearted and in times you JUST want to read SOMETHING/ANYTHING (Think of I want to eat something because I want to chew something and I have nothing else to occupy my time). In here you will not find original themes (except rarely). There is much repetition but usually with minor original details here and there. Not that there is not repetition of themes on the above percentiles BUT there, there are original twists and/or are good enough written that even the repeated themes will not mind you (if you take notice of them). Here you will find more grammar and spelling errors and/or even weird writing formats but as always there are exceptions and I forgot to mention it above but this also depends on whether the writer has a beta or how much English he knows.

~75%{+-15%} Crap to maybe readable ones. Really lame plots to passable but even if they are passable ones, there is so much bad grammar and spelling that the text is rendered unreadable... figuratively and realistically. This is the bulk of fanfiction unfortunately. Here you will find gray-cell-killers born from boredom, disgust, anger e.t.c.

So something like this. The above is mostly applied to English-written fanfiction since it is the only language except of my own that I can read. And also I must note that as always there will be exceptions in each percentile. For instance I HAVE found an excellent story but with grammar and spelling errors because the writer had no beta (thankfully not so much that I had to abandon it because I couldn't bare to read it - it was a good plot) and of course there are flawless writings in regard to spelling and grammar but with no plot whatsoever...

This is my take based on personal experience and three websites and it's a rough estimate that may not reflect opinions of others.

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There was a time in my life when I wrote and read a lot of fan fiction. But I have since stopped. Mostly it was due to the vast amount of poorly written nonsense that existed. But then again, I suppose that it's like that with all forms of prose. I'm sure there are great FF authors... I just don't have time to read or search for something that I can so easily imagine myself. The basis is there already.

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I think PheonixRe is being generous by saying that only %70 are terrible, I'd go with %90 terrible, 5% meh, and %5 good. (%1-%2 awesome is about right). The really good stuff stands right up to canon, but the meh stuff is generic enough that it's not totally out-of-character (OOC) and with good enough SPaG, but nothing in it that sets it apart as a good in-universe story. I used to read piles of fic and have gotten back into it lately and the things that annoyed me years ago still annoy me now.

Your best bet for good fic is delving into the big restricted archives for your fandom and asking for recs. LJ also tends to have slightly higher quality fic.

I read them sometimes; all of them originated from mangas and text-based. When i want to read more but the manga's already completed, or when a manga lacks a certain aspect (like romance). It's fun to read them, especially the good ones.

I say why read them, if the writers want to write then let them create their own world

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Well, like I said, maybe I was lucky or unlucky... According to you I was lucky. Then again it may have to do with how much I diversified (if it's even a word). Though a large portion of what I read is concentrated to two or three categories/origins/sources (because to be truthful their universes offered many possibilities and they were such that supported fanfictions and thus have a great many stories) I actually was curious when writing my previous post so I went and made a rough estimate of what I read...
Through all the websites I visited and read fanfiction (the last two-three years) I have read close to a 1000 stories of which I have added to my favorites
(those I really really liked so all of the ones I consider to belong to the first and percentile and most of the ones of the second one as well some exceptions - I might have not liked the story but there were some elements that I wanted to look at, yes I rather like to analyze and make assumptions sometimes of things I read and their writers, go figure)
about a 100 to 130 - not really sure about this one.
However the categories (sources from where the fanfictions were written, books, comics, manga, anime, tv series, movies) of all those stories were over 90 (incuding crossovers) so if take into account that three or four categories were my main focus (way main focus, talking over 50 stories in each of them) I have at average read about 7 stories at each fandom excluding the main ones... So like I said, diversity. It's obvious that if you stick to one or two fandoms (which are also similar ie action) after a while you will have read almost every possible theme