(Virus still not going from computer, so blogging will still be light for the forseeable future. Don't know when I'll get it fixed...*SIGH*)
Over the weekend, I finished the first Lord Of The Rings book, for the first time. Yes, yes, I know, someone like me who's been playing Dungeons&Dragons, and other role playing games, off and on for 30 years, and I've JUST NOW read The Lord Of The Rings? What can I say...I'm a loser.
I tried the book twice before and just couldn't get into it. This time I stuck with it, but it took me three weeks to get through it. And it was quite a slog. God, it got boring at parts. I mean they spent like a third of the book doing NOTHING but walking! SHEESH! And Tom Bombadil...what the FUCK was THAT all about????? And the SONGS! Oh there were soooooo many different songs. Honestly, I didn't read a sing one of them, I just simply went on to when the singing was over and took up reading again.
All in all, I was disappointed. A bit bored. I was expecting....I don't know, something more, something I'm more like used to. I prefer the Dragonlance trilogy so much so I've even read it more than once. I just think too much time was wasted on inconsequential things. I honestly preferred the movie to the book.
I want to read the remaining books, but I've not idea if I'll actually ever do it. I dont imagine they change much after the first.
Ah, well, it was nice to finally see where D&D, Dragonlance, and Peter Jackson's movies came from. I can appreciate what the book's done, laying the foundation and all, for many things in place now. And for that it was interesting. Otherwise....pretty meh.
POLT
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Some books are in fact a slog to get through. Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" was one such. Recommended by a friend and I read the damned thing. Utter dreck!
However I have read through the Hitchhikers Trilogy, The Stand (There's a tome!). In fact I like books that start at 500 pages and move on from there.
But alas I remember reading LOTR in high school. That was the one and only thing I will NEVER re-read. I've re-read Huxley's "Brave New World" and a few others from my school days but the walking, walking, walking.
Funny bit in Clerks II comparing LOTR to Star Wars though, if you have't seen Clerks I and Clerks II, along with Chasing Amy, Dogma, and all the Jay and Silent Bob movies, I feel bad for you.
The second and third books have a bit more action, so they aren't quite so dreary to slog through.
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