I found that LotR works much better aloud (yay, rah, audiobooks!), which I attribute to his epic-esque writing style.
Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.
'Jaynestown'
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DebetEsse - Jul 20, 2009 10:26:59 am PDT #3133 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Connie Neil - Jul 20, 2009 10:35:58 am PDT #3134 of 30000
brillig
Time to re-read all of them again, I think.
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2009 10:37:56 am PDT #3135 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
But I can't get into it! Such a slog for me.
My two disparate authors who I cannot get into, though I have tried and tried, are Tolkien and Jane Austen.
The movies based on their books, however, I quite like.
Some Lit. major I was, huh?
Dana - Jul 20, 2009 10:38:25 am PDT #3136 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
and Jane Austen
Burn the witch! Burn her!
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2009 10:40:31 am PDT #3137 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Burn the witch! Burn her!
I know, I know. It's like my Steph OS didn't get a full install.
Jessica - Jul 20, 2009 10:41:49 am PDT #3138 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You'd think someone would have released a patch by now.
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2009 10:46:04 am PDT #3139 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Not only is there no patch, there's no tech support.
erikaj - Jul 20, 2009 10:46:39 am PDT #3140 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, yeah, Hecubus. Like I'm not enough of a weirdo already without the Elf languages.
Juliebird - Jul 20, 2009 10:55:21 am PDT #3141 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I reread TFotR recently and still got quite lost in it. I first read it probably when I was 8, so I can't say that I had any preconceptions of how a story should be structured. I love it's rambling ways, and how the scenery seeps into my brain, and embrace it's non-hurry to get where it's going. I think it's because of these books that my first career was originally going to be a gypsy trekking around the world with my pony and wagon.
Fred Pete - Jul 20, 2009 11:01:47 am PDT #3142 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
One of the few people I knew in college who was a bigger Tolkien fan than I was pointed out that there's a recurring pattern in the trilogy. The characters travel, then they face a monster or some other threat, then they stop to eat.