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Does anyone else find Tolkien's stuff hard to read?
I'm a little way into The Silmarillion, but I couldn't be fucked to read it, frankly.
The audio book is nearly finished. Lulz.
Man, I love the smell of fresh rain.
I never have read a Tolkien book, but the only thing I couldn't read was War of The Worlds, the original one.
I suppose that living in a different age and reading about a disaster some stuff doesn't feel right.
Kinda like: "Oh verily we are being attacked by those disrespectful folks, I'm afraid that my old fellows and myself are righteous enough chaps to stop their disastrous acts."
I got bored.
Heck, even the Odyssey was less difficult to read and it was written 2,000 years ago or something.
Don't worry, it's a bit dry to me, too. He's perfectly content to set the story aside and go off on some long spiel about some interesting side note for quite a while before remembering he sorta left something behind...oh, right, the plot. Mind you, the world he creates is quite rich and interesting, and he is the forerunner for almost all modern high fantasy, but I will admit that I only ever read the famous trilogy that really made him big.
Oh, but the only book I started and never could finish was some sci-fi story. Starts off interesting with a ship to Alpha Centauri, a basic closed circle with a large crew of divergent elements, then it got...odd. No, it didn't get odd. It just had sex, sex, and more sex, and one of them was doing it to spread an evil virus to kill the people on board simply because he's a Christian fundamentalist and, you know, pre-marital sex is bad and space colonization and scientific progress are all bad so we have to genetically engineer a disease that will kill those people. I can't believe I even remember that much. That book went back in the pile right quick. If I wanted soft-core lit, I'd pick up a Harlequin novel. >_<