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Back in the 80's I loved Tom Clancy's books. When Hunt for the Red October came out it was literally required reading at work. I was a first year engineer working on submarine design. I can still remember the excitement created by this book. The earlier Clancy books were appealing because of the engineering detail (not always correct but that was the fun part, picking out the mistakes). Nowadays, I can't really read any of his books without falling asleep.
LOTR, I've always felt that the TT was the slowest of the trilogy and loved how Peter Jackson divided up the movies as opposed to the pbooks. I've read the trilogy 4 or 5 times in the past 30 years and it's about time to reread them. Fellowship has some slow parts in the first third of the book but I'm always swept away by Tolkien's descriptions that bring all aspects of his world alive.
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