Maija wrote:Heather wrote:philipchevron wrote:Throw it away if it's crap.
That's what I do.
The book has to be utter shite for me to actually throw it away. I just don't have the heart to throw books away
Niall wrote:if i start a book, i finish the book no matter how much pain it does to me
Maija wrote:...Lord of the Rings either. At some point it just gets too boring...
Niall wrote:Maija wrote:Heather wrote:philipchevron wrote:Throw it away if it's crap.
That's what I do.
The book has to be utter shite for me to actually throw it away. I just don't have the heart to throw books away
if i start a book, i finish the book no matter how much pain it does to me
Maija wrote:Niall wrote:if i start a book, i finish the book no matter how much pain it does to me
You are a strong man. Or you read very few books
I had to give in on Jens Bjørneboe's trilogy of evil, simply because it depressed me so much. That was when I started drinking whiskey. And I never managed to get through Lord of the Rings either. At some point it just gets too boring.
Fintan wrote:Bound For Glory - Woody Guthrie
goodbar wrote:Fintan wrote:Bound For Glory - Woody Guthrie
FUCK! THAT! BOOK!
Fintan wrote:Maija wrote:...Lord of the Rings either. At some point it just gets too boring...
I... well... I mean...
I first read it through at 11, and part of the reason it took me THAT long after reading The Hobbit (9) was I started with The Two Towers, which IS the heaviest going part of the entire work. The predominance of war-talk and battle-stuff makes it rather like a martial version of the lists of 'begets and begats' in The Bible.. very tedious for young minds.
Still one of my favourite works of all time, though. Class act, the Prof... for a fuddy-duddy. I mean Beowulf, the Merton Chair... no slouch that fella.
Irish Rover wrote:..I must say that i read the whole trilogy in about a month or so. I just seem to get into it, and it was around the time when the movies were being made.
That was largely part of what made Tolkein so successful and so intolerable. He was obsessive about providing huge amounts of detail (how many pages do we really need dedicated to the barren hills of Some Far Off Land, or the sweeping horse fields of Some Other Far Off Land, or the Enchant(ed|ing) Forests of Some Far Off Land, or Some Old Hippy And His Girlfriend And Their Constant Singing) and creating a rich world for his story to take place in, but ultimately a lot of this richness is wasted on most modern audiences and our gnat like attention spans.Fintan wrote:The sheer panoramic scope of Tolkiens' work elevates him to a rarified position in my opinion.
DzM wrote:Of course The Lord of The Rings is like a cake-walk when you start trying to work through the Silmarilian, and you're just a sick bastard if you moved on from there to the other tomes from the Tolkein clan.
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