i loved HofL but then heard an interview with the author and he sounded like a pompous git - (besides LOTR is just so epic)

still - much love to papillon long-stockings!

authors are lame (except for you, Doc ;) ), glad to hear there are other HofL readers.

ROFL Papillon Long-Stockings! :D

did you read his follow-up? i meant to buy it but just realized i never did - i think it was called Revolutions and you had to actually rotate the book to read it or something like that

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Yeah, I didn't care for it. It was an interesting concept where there are two main characters and you get each perspective depending on the direction you are reading, front to back or back to front. It was written more in a flowing poetry form and I'm not a poetry person. It also was kind of this hippy road journey that I could care less about. It felt kind of thrown together and not as intense as HofL. It's kind of hard to top a book that you spent 10 years writing for a book that only took a year.

I just cannot get in to Tokien's writing...the only word I can think of to properly descriobe him is convoluted. I'll admit that I haven't read the series in full - only read about 3/4 of Fellowship - but it was so messily written I just couldn't be bothered.

That was a couple years back though...I may give it another try someday.

That's how I feel about Tolkien too. I just couldn't get into it. I remember reading like 20 pages on different kinds of hobbit grass or something. Good thing they came out with the movie. :p

Good grief- the man has managed to remain in print & popular for over 60 years and you can summarize his work as "messily written?" The fault lies not in the author but in the reader, metrhinks.

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Peter Jackson's best selling novels. :D :p


Seriously, those movies totally ruined the sales of the Tolkien books. I don't believe anyone has asked for any of the books in like 4 years now. Sad..

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