@Pvt.Ryan:
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.