[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Lord of the Rings: read 7-8 times
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Respect. I found Tolkien to be long winded. Sorry man.[/quote]
I read really fast, so I tend to try to find books that are long and detailed.
I read the last Lee Childs Reacher book in 4 hours. I love the Hobbit and cant wait to see the movie actually. Whenever I re-read the LOR I always start with the Hobbit, to me that is a 4 book series.[/quote]
I thought ‘Fellowship’ was an easy read. The battle scenes slowed the last two books down, but they never dragged. Silmarillion was more like a textbook.
P.S. There will be two Hobbit movies, expanded from the book. Hopefully this is a creative not financial decision…
The Hobbit - Way better than The Lord of the Rings, I honestly don’t understand the hype, and yes I’ve read all three books. The Silmarillion is impossible to read.
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I made it through The Silmarillion. I only really read it to get more backstory on the Istari. It doesn’t really have a ‘plot’; it just chronicles the creation of Middle Earth and prophesizes its end (or at least the end of ‘magic’). Mythology buffs would eat it up, though.[/quote]
I got a quarter of the way through The Silmarillion and couldn’t hack it anymore. Wasn’t my cup of tea.
I preffered the hobbit aswell, just so much more fun that LOTR, although LOTR is what got me into reading. [/quote]
FTR, I like The Hobbit the best as well, but Tolkien wrote it for children. Darned Philology professors!
The Hobbit - Way better than The Lord of the Rings, I honestly don’t understand the hype, and yes I’ve read all three books. The Silmarillion is impossible to read.
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I made it through The Silmarillion. I only really read it to get more backstory on the Istari. It doesn’t really have a ‘plot’; it just chronicles the creation of Middle Earth and prophesizes its end (or at least the end of ‘magic’). Mythology buffs would eat it up, though.[/quote]
I got a quarter of the way through The Silmarillion and couldn’t hack it anymore. Wasn’t my cup of tea.
I preffered the hobbit aswell, just so much more fun that LOTR, although LOTR is what got me into reading. [/quote]
FTR, I like The Hobbit the best as well, but Tolkien wrote it for children. Darned Philology professors![/quote]
Haha, ye I know he wrote it for children… probably why I found it the most fun.
Although The Fellowship was great too. I Loved meeting all the characters for the first time - Especialy the Hobbits
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Lord of the Rings: read 7-8 times
[/quote]
Respect. I found Tolkien to be long winded. Sorry man.[/quote]
I read really fast, so I tend to try to find books that are long and detailed.
I read the last Lee Childs Reacher book in 4 hours. I love the Hobbit and cant wait to see the movie actually. Whenever I re-read the LOR I always start with the Hobbit, to me that is a 4 book series.[/quote]
I thought ‘Fellowship’ was an easy read. The battle scenes slowed the last two books down, but they never dragged. Silmarillion was more like a textbook.
P.S. There will be two Hobbit movies, expanded from the book. Hopefully this is a creative not financial decision…[/quote]
I could see that, you know is hard to make a 2-2.5 hour movie out of a 400 page book. If they really are trying to capture the book like they did with the LOR movies.
up til now, her job has been a breeze
her boss is a woman who lets work pile up and then soaks herself in scotch to assassinate it all in bold strokes just before the deadline
and is no one to remark upon anyone else taking four-hour lunches in hotel rooms with literary agents and coming back to work with clothes on inside- out
now that’s all threatened
the benign ‘absent father’ out-of-town head office guy who they answer to is canned
the top contender for his job is a prissy closet queen from their office who has been harassing the openly gay art director they did hire and who is working out well except that he has become victim #1 on prissy closet queen’s hit list and he has a long list he has been making up for years working in the office alongside them
play time might be over
head office is a cult of company picnics/ company credit union/ company 24/7 punch-clock nazi clampdown
threatened with a new regime she picks this time to assert her independence and suggest to Sam that they take a week off so he can get his head together
she’s disgusted with him that she can’t remember a single time when they had two different ideas about anything and they ended up doing what he wanted to do
he wants to talk about it now
she wants to leave it for a week
they leave it for a week
she doesn’t know how she can live for a week without him
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Lord of the Rings: read 7-8 times
[/quote]
Respect. I found Tolkien to be long winded. Sorry man.[/quote]
I read really fast, so I tend to try to find books that are long and detailed.
I read the last Lee Childs Reacher book in 4 hours. I love the Hobbit and cant wait to see the movie actually. Whenever I re-read the LOR I always start with the Hobbit, to me that is a 4 book series.[/quote]
I thought ‘Fellowship’ was an easy read. The battle scenes slowed the last two books down, but they never dragged. Silmarillion was more like a textbook.
P.S. There will be two Hobbit movies, expanded from the book. Hopefully this is a creative not financial decision…[/quote]
I could see that, you know is hard to make a 2-2.5 hour movie out of a 400 page book. If they really are trying to capture the book like they did with the LOR movies.
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There’s at least one extra character that I know of. Evangeline Lily plays an elf not featured in the book, but I have total faith in Peter Jackson to make positive additions…Gollum’s role will probably be expanded.
My all time favourite book is the day after tomorrow (And no it’s not that weather disaster film). The Dan Brown books are all good reads too, thought digital fortress was shite though.
Really enjoyed the films, also having ‘been there’ and hiked through many of the areas filmed it also has a complete ‘feel’ to it now as well.[/quote]
Awesome BN[/quote]
Favourite quote of mine along the ‘been there, done that’ lines is “been to mordor–had a latte”… seriously there is a nice cafe just across the valley from mt doom (mt ngarahoe) and right next to the site of the battle of the last alliance, have stood right where elrond did !!
[quote]Irish Daza wrote:
I’ve read and agree with almost all the selections here so far - so I thought my taste must be fairly mainstream.
I have seen that recommendation for the Prince of nothing series in a few places, so picked it up a few weeks ago. I’m stubborn so I don’t want to give up, but it is easily the hardest read since Ulysess.
I find the characters dull and unempathetic. The pace of the story glacial. The writing style weak at best.
Please tell me why this reminds anyone of Joe Abercrombie or GRR Martin?[/quote]
Morally ambiguous characters who break away from the cliched fantasy tropes is what reminded me of George RR Martin and Abercrombie.
I read it a while ago and can’t remember exactly how the story goes anymore, but it picks up eventually. I also remember his writing style took a little getting used to. He can be really long winded and I got the impression he really loves to hear himself talk/write, there’s a lot of pseudo philosophy bullshit sprinkled in.[/quote]
Thanks for the reply - I don’t see much in the way of suprises or breaks from cliche in it myself. Am nearly finished the first one, and have no interest in reading further. I’ll finish it out of sheer pig-headedness but won’t read the others.
Really enjoyed the films, also having ‘been there’ and hiked through many of the areas filmed it also has a complete ‘feel’ to it now as well.[/quote]
Awesome BN[/quote]
Favourite quote of mine along the ‘been there, done that’ lines is “been to mordor–had a latte”… seriously there is a nice cafe just across the valley from mt doom (mt ngarahoe) and right next to the site of the battle of the last alliance, have stood right where elrond did !!
The Hobbit - Way better than The Lord of the Rings, I honestly don’t understand the hype, and yes I’ve read all three books. The Silmarillion is impossible to read.
[/quote]
I made it through The Silmarillion. I only really read it to get more backstory on the Istari. It doesn’t really have a ‘plot’; it just chronicles the creation of Middle Earth and prophesizes its end (or at least the end of ‘magic’). Mythology buffs would eat it up, though.[/quote]
I got a quarter of the way through The Silmarillion and couldn’t hack it anymore. Wasn’t my cup of tea.
I preffered the hobbit aswell, just so much more fun that LOTR, although LOTR is what got me into reading. [/quote]
The Sil is all over the place. First there is a god, then 20 of gods kids, who are also gods, but lesser gods than the one god, then there are lesser lesser gods, then super elves which can stand up to the upper lesser gods in a fight, then regular elves, then dwarves, then men. By the 75th page you are introduced to 200 people, given there godly names, elvish names, and dwarven names…it ridiculous, long winded and difficult to read/follow Tolkien’s thoughts
[quote]zenontheterrible wrote:
The first book to make me really say “FUCK YEA (this book was awesome)” was |Dune. (didn’t really like the sequels.)
Since then my fav, is the stormlight archive (way of kings), and the mistborn series, by brandon sanderson. [/quote]
I just picked up Way of Kings and am page 150 or so and it is indeed a good read and easy to get into and easy to follow. I’m enjoying it immensely.
Have you ever tried Malazan: Book of the Fallen? I wouldn’t recommend it as I found it just too damn complicated and it felt like I was studying for an exam in University.[/quote]
haha yah, i couldn’t get into Malazan for the same reason! I love long books. But i don’t want to have to get a degree in that book just to understand whats going on
[quote]Irish Daza wrote:
I’ve read and agree with almost all the selections here so far - so I thought my taste must be fairly mainstream.
I have seen that recommendation for the Prince of nothing series in a few places, so picked it up a few weeks ago. I’m stubborn so I don’t want to give up, but it is easily the hardest read since Ulysess.
I find the characters dull and unempathetic. The pace of the story glacial. The writing style weak at best.
Please tell me why this reminds anyone of Joe Abercrombie or GRR Martin?[/quote]
I agree with you about the characters (in prince of nothing). By the second book i realized i was rooting for all of the characters to die, and i hated all of them. At this point i thought, Why keep reading? So i didn’t.
I thought he did a good job on combat description though. I thought his writing style was “technically sound” but un-involving.
