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Originally Posted by hansl
But if you accept that life is too short anyway...
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I don't. I still hate Tolkien for introducing me to immortal Elves that stay young and beautiful looking like they're thirtyish when they really are close to 3,000. Yeah, I'd like to look like Elrond when I'm 3K years old...
Fortunately, Terry Brooks' Elves are more like men; they age and have a lifespan of about 85 years. (And they also have names that would make Tolkien turn in his grave.)
And yes, I'm buying faster than I can read, but with regard to some works (such as the Delphi Classics Charles Dickens collection, ~20K pages long), I don't expect to read everything. I also have Greek classics from Delphi, but I'm not going to read everything; I'll probably not read 6 translations of The Odyssey for example.