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Has anyone posted anything on Lord of the Rings? Man I love those books! I’ve read them three times and counting. When I watched “the making of” the movies I learned alot about Tolkien. A real fascinating guy. I like how he didn’t lie allegories in his book and said if something in the book meant something to you thats the point. I think a important part is hope. A key element in the story.
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Has anyone posted anything on Lord of the Rings? Man I love those books! I’ve read them three times and counting. When I watched “the making of” the movies I learned alot about Tolkien. A real fascinating guy. I like how he didn’t lie allegories in his book and said if something in the book meant something to you thats the point. I think a important part is hope. A key element in the story.
There are some Middle Earther on this site. I love the books.
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Has anyone posted anything on Lord of the Rings? Man I love those books! I’ve read them three times and counting. When I watched “the making of” the movies I learned alot about Tolkien. A real fascinating guy. I like how he didn’t lie allegories in his book and said if something in the book meant something to you thats the point. I think a important part is hope. A key element in the story.
At the very beginning of this thread, I stated that I had just started reading The Hobbit. I went through that - entertaining enough - and then started on the first book of the trilogy. Well, I put it down about 60 or 70 pages or so. Just got tired of reading “The Hobbit 2” and couldn’t put up with it anymore. Never went back.
Don’t get me wrong, I like fantasy books and movies (I’ve only seen the first Trilogy movie), but I felt like I had seen and read so much as a kid that probably did owe a nod to Tolkien that I was burnt out by the genre once I finally gave him a shot. Maybe some other time I will, but I’m not so sure. Especially with all that damn singing…sheesh
Now I juggle between a few books of 100 or so I downloaded for free on my iPad. Currently it’s the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a classic Chinese novel, a triple translation of the Quran, and some Jules Verne.
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Ya I cant say the singings annoying but give it another shot. It starts off horrible then gets better. They have to explain it all to the people who never read the Hobbit. Also if you watch all the movies you dont even need to read the books! :-D
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Ya I cant say the singings annoying but give it another shot. It starts off horrible then gets better. They have to explain it all to the people who never read the Hobbit. Also if you watch all the movies you dont even need to read the books! :-D
I enjoy the details of the Fellowship of the Ring book has. I wish the other two had as much detail.
I watched the movies first, then read the books.
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As was mentioned earlier “The Forever War” is an excellent read as well as the “Foundation” series Bradbury’s "The Illustrated Man " is excellent as well,perhaps a little twisted . “Ender’s Game” already mentioned is a great read Try Harry Turtledove’s World at War series Earth is Invaded in spring 1942 Mankind has to unite to fight off the aliens He also has a Great War series which is an alternate history where the south wins the civil war It runs through wwII
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dteven erikson steven erikson steven erikson, I have read probably two thousand fantasy books from robert jordon to david eddings to j.r.r tolken. ?one of these authors come close to to steven eriksons the book of the fallen malazan series. It is an entire world with religions politics and death. If you don’t believe me read the reviews on the cover pages it’s filled with aurthors that I have grown up reading basically saiing the these books are the greatest fantasy novels ever put together, yes even better than their own. Read them that’s all I can say they are fantasy at it’s best.
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I just bought the first book in book of the fallen malazan series as well as the first in the wheel of time series for my Nook. They both sound like a good series.
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Just finished the last book of the Star Wars Darth Bane series. It was a very good read.
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I read the RULE OF TWO…it was a very good read how is the Path of destruction?@ABWorsham:
Just finished the last book of the Star Wars Darth Bane series. It was a very good read.
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Reading Neuromancer now. Way ahead of its time. After that I’m going to read Game of Thrones so I can catch the HBO series.
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@aequitas:
I read the RULE OF TWO…it was a very good read how is the Path of destruction?@ABWorsham:
Just finished the last book of the Star Wars Darth Bane series. It was a very good read.
The third of the Bane books is the weakest. I really disliked the ending. Disliked it enough that I’m done with that series the kept missing the mark but never managed to turn me off it till then.
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Been reading the Dune Chronicles and I am almost done with book 5, Heretics of Dune. Really good series. I started picking up the other novels that Frank Herbert wrote. Anyone read any of his non-Dune books? What are your favorites?
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@aequitas:
I read the RULE OF TWO…it was a very good read how is the Path of destruction?@ABWorsham:
Just finished the last book of the Star Wars Darth Bane series. It was a very good read.
I agree with you. The first books was a home run. The second was decent. The third book you could sense the writer was hard pressed to finalize the story.
The third of the Bane books is the weakest. I really disliked the ending. Disliked it enough that I’m done with that series the kept missing the mark but never managed to turn me off it till then.
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The thing with the Bane stories, which I’ve mentioned before, is that Bane needs a villain or rather a hero. It got to be wearying waiting for the “sudden but inevitable betrayal” of the apprentice. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of ways to go with the story and the end of Path felt like ‘jumping the shark.’
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Hey Skinny I read the White Plague when I was in high school. It was pretty good. Not as good as Dune bt worth the read.
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Has anyone been following the “Fate of the Jedi” series? I’m current on it and have been enjoying it. I’ve found the Ben-Vestara romance amusing.
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Hey Skinny I read the White Plague when I was in high school. It was pretty good. Not as good as Dune bt worth the read.
I have ordered all of the non-Dune Frank Herbert books that I could find on Amazon. I finished Heretics and Chapterhouse now I am going through the Butlerian Jihad. Interesting read if you can get past the fact that it is not Frank’s writing. From what I have read, a lot of the ideas that are in Dune came from his other books (non-Dune).
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… and after a long hiatus, I’m back.
But I have been reading many books while I’ve been gone.
Several good books by David Weber, “Patriots” by David Drake - which is a science fiction retelling of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys’ capture of Fort Ticonderoga way back in the Revolutionary War.
I also read Brandon Sanderson’s “Mistborn” Trilogy, which, while I enjoyed it, and it was well-written, left me feeling as though I went to a $50 Brazillian grill buffet and got plenty of salad and bread, but got skimped on the beef. I have to say that I enjoyed his stand-alon novel, “Elantris” better than this trilogy. (Although, I hasten to say that it wasn’t a waste of time reading it, I just don’t plan to re-read it anytime soon.) I’m still holding out on reading his finishing novels of Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time”, so those are the only 4 books I have read of his so far.
@Jermofoot - Give Tolkien another chance. I think you’ll like it.
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… and after a long hiatus, I’m back.
But I have been reading many books while I’ve been gone.
Several good books by David Weber, “Patriots” by David Drake - which is a science fiction retelling of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys’ capture of Fort Ticonderoga way back in the Revolutionary War.
I also read Brandon Sanderson’s “Mistborn” Trilogy, which, while I enjoyed it, and it was well-written, left me feeling as though I went to a $50 Brazillian grill buffet and got plenty of salad and bread, but got skimped on the beef. I have to say that I enjoyed his stand-alon novel, “Elantris” better than this trilogy. (Although, I hasten to say that it wasn’t a waste of time reading it, I just don’t plan to re-read it anytime soon.) I’m still holding out on reading his finishing novels of Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time”, so those are the only 4 books I have read of his so far.
@Jermofoot - Give Tolkien another chance. I think you’ll like it.
I’m sure i will someday. I’m working on the first Game of Thrones book, a few classics, and studying material.
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