Ask R.J. Cerrato discussion

What sort of things do you look for when deciding to pick up a book? After reading a book, how do you determine if it was "good" or not? What do you, as the reader, need to have to make a book a worthy read?

Personally with a book or any type of story, I like to connect to the characters in the story in some way. I like to be able to sympathize with the one of the main characters. That's probably my biggest thing.