Time to re-read all of them again, I think.
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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?
and Jane Austen
Burn the witch! Burn her!
Burn the witch! Burn her!
I know, I know. It's like my Steph OS didn't get a full install.
You'd think someone would have released a patch by now.
Not only is there no patch, there's no tech support.
Oh, yeah, Hecubus. Like I'm not enough of a weirdo already without the Elf languages.
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.
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.
Also in Book 7, Harry has to deal with finding out the Dumbledore may not have been right or honest and heightening his obedience and trust here makes that dilemma stronger when it comes.
"I didn't step in because I couldn't" is less of an internal battle than "I didn't step in and I could have."