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Originally Posted by Timboli
No you can't, but I am sure like me, that you know plenty of people who have either failed an attempt to read or just been put off before they even started.
As many as have read LOTR, there is still a huge (no doubt bigger) number who haven't.
I don't think, like I said, that people fall neatly into two camps. That's my view anyway.
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Sure, but then again, not everyone enjoyed the Game of Thrones mini-series either. I tried reading the book but just couldn't get into it. That doesn't imply that Martin should re-write the book to match my taste.
The LOTR books doesn't really match modern writing. There is no sex, no characters sleeping around, and for the most part very little action per se. The battles tend to last a page or two, with most of that focused on a couple of characters having a discussion in the middle of the battle. That's why I say it's from a different era. It's a book published in the mid 50's written for older sensibilities.