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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
junkml and DixieGal, you both seem to have had similar problems making it through The Two Towers of LOTR. It sounds to me that these dragged on too slowly for you either because of a slow pace of the plot or because of longer descriptions or both. Is that right? Could you also please say what you thought of the first book, The Fellowship of the Ring? I hope you'll forgive my curiosity. My personal experience was quite different and I'm just trying to understand people's views.
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Honestly I can't separate books one and two of that trilogy in my head anymore. I just know I've tried reading the trilogy three times and I always get about halfway through the second book, put it down, and never pick it up again. And yes, I guess you could say the plot is slow (to me it's non-existant), and the describing of every tree, every leaf on every tree, every piece of ground beneath every tree, every rock on every piece of ground under every tree, etc. just gets annoying!
I've had other people tell me before that they just flip ahead ten pages at a time when they hit these sections, so they can read the book. I can't bring myself to do that. If I feel like I have to start skipping whole sections of a book, it's not worth my time to read.