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Originally Posted by junkml
Thank you. I was reading through the thread before I posted. I figured I'd be the first one to mention this book. The Two Towers is the reason I've never finished reading the trilogy.
To me it's not even character driven, for me it's just that it's hundreds of pages describing how they're going through the forest, and describing every trea, leaf, branch, twig, rock, etc. in the freaking forest!
I've tried reading it three times, and have never finished it.
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Thank you, I had read the first denouncement of TT and was going to reply, but you described it better for me. I always said,
Tolkien described the scenery so beautiful in that book, I swear he even bothered to detail an individual blade of grass at some point. Though I must admit, years later I reread the trilogy and didn't find it as long winded as I once did.
In response to another couple users comments on a long winded tale. I have to admit,
Atlas Shrugged is a mediocre work of fiction, but perhaps the best ever work of personality studies ever done.
Anthem and
The Fountainhead were much better 'read's of fiction.
Someone mentioned
American Gods, I haven't gotten around to it yet. I happen to love a few of
Gaiman's works but couldn't get past
Good Omens with
Pratchett. I love dry and dark humour, but after a hundred or so pages into it I hadn't once caught a smirk from the text. I think the prose was parched.
From my young adult years, I have to mention
Alan Dean Foster. So many people at that stage would include him on their list of must reads that I forced myself to try novel after novel. I read about 5 or 6 before settling on my opinion. I absolutely detest the books I read by him. A summary of everyone of them is this. Group of charactors have to get to a place, they are going, they are going, they are there,
fin.
The
Harry Potter series I felt was a great series, written for the pre-teen/teen market, and the story can easily be appreciated by adults. I wonder perhaps if several people in here became biased against it because of the hype. (Happens to the best of us)
And the
Old Ones' frown upon your
Lovecraft comments.
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It is with respect to your opinions that I have structured my response to you. I feel it's ok to disagree on issues, Lobolover, but to engage in critical thinking on WHY people disagree is really the important issue of this thread.
Also, we're having fun here!!
Don
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Hey Don, you're a poopy head. Analyze that.
-MJ