Re: Lying Here Alone on the Couch...

[emrinalexander]

I am a life-long avid reader. I will read cereal boxes if nothing else presents itself

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[rainbow]

my mother gave me a set of tolkien (hobbit and trilogy) and i *tried* to read the hobbit, i really did. but after about 3 tries, i never tried again.

given that it's been about 35 years, perhaps i'll try again if i find it. but man, i have such a memory of UTTER BOREDOM!

[beck_liz]

I just barely managed to get through the LotR series when I was a child, even though book 2's construction made me want to toss it across the room (basically, the book is split in half between two storylines, one of which I find inexpressibly boring, even in the movie version, so the fact that we had no idea what was happening in the other storyline during half the book DROVE ME NUTS), but I would never be able to manage it now. I like Tolkien's worldbuilding, but the man needed an editor. Big time. I vastly prefer the movies to the books.

The Lymond Chronicles... yeah. People always seem to think these are awesome, but I don't think I managed to get more than a few pages into it.

[anjak_j]

I've read The Lord of the Rings trilogy and frankly I don't know why people are so fucking obsessed with it. I actually liked The Hobbit but LotR is seriously hard going and I only finished it out of sheer stubbornness. To say Tolkien is verbose is a galactic understatement.
(As for the movies, I totally agree with what Kevin Smith said about those - and I really don't like how some people act like you've just blasphemed when you say you don't like the LotR movies. Diff'rent strokes, diff'rent folks, yo.)

As for The Lymond Chronicles, I'd never even heard of it or Dunnett prior to reading this. And I actually enjoy a wide range of different genres of books.

IAWTC completely

[raveninthewind]

I've read The Lord of the Rings trilogy and frankly I don't know why people are so fucking obsessed with it. I actually liked The Hobbit but LotR is seriously hard going and I only finished it out of sheer stubbornness. To say Tolkien is verbose is a galactic understatement.

[alejandradd]

I sped-read the LoTR trilogy as fast as I could. That helped a lot. I later found The Hobbit, and that is way shorter and more to the point. Way easier to read.

I keep trying to like Neil Gaiman, but I usually fail miserably.