Yah, I'm kind of that way about vampires, too. And in either case, it's not that I refuse to read books with those tropes in them, I just find that even the ones with theoretically good things about them often don't reach me very well. But then a few do.

Basketball: with the tournament structures and the betting and the bla bla up and down the freakin' court squeak squeak squeak ICK.