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There are a great many books in many different genres that are and will for generations be considered great. Often times these are not "easy reads." It is their very complexity that makes them great. And I'm not using the word great to mean "really good", but its real meaning-- large, weighty, substantial.
I find it amazing to go to the bookstore today and see shelf after shelf of fantasy books. When I was a kid, LOTR and a very few others was basically it. You can love LOTR for its language and scope, its sheer genius... or not. But the fact is, that without it, we wouldn't have Eregon, the Wheel of Time, His Dark Materials, Thomas Covenant, and hundreds of others.
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