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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I have to admit: I'm not a fan of Tolkien. I love The Hobbit. It's likely my most re-read book, since I discovered it as a child and have read it again every five or six years or so.
But The Lord of the Rings held no interest for me.
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It's pretty clear, that even if we like the same things, we can like them for different reasons. And why the notion, that often occurs to many, that if you like so and so then you should like so and so, is often untrue.
Lord Of The Rings, one cannot deny, is quite a heavy read, and for that reason I have not read it often ... it requires me to be in the right frame of mind. And with my huge library of many unread books, it is just so easy, to pick an easier read, that is still going to be greatly rewarding, if not perhaps to the same degree. I do admittedly like well written complex reads though. The Dune series, as you mention later, is a great favorite of mine. And the very thing that turns off many readers with Jordan's Wheel Of Time series, is what greatly appeals to me ... all the different threads.
I would have to say at this point in time, that the offshoot to the Riftwar saga by Raymond E. Feist, the Empire trilogy he did with Janny Wurts, is my all time favorite story. Wheel Of Time series is right up there though, and some others not too far away.