"I think that my growing disinterest is a result of market saturation... this is especially true of AH. These only so much I can take it before it all starts sounding repetitive and uninteresting to me."

-- I think this may be due to the fact that a lot of writers concentrate on a few well-known historical turning-points; WWII, the Civil War, and so forth. Which in turn is due to an assumption that the reading public doesn't know enough history to follow alternates springing from other periods.

I try to avoid those... 8-).