BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Feeling masochistic, I once attempted to read some other TolkeinThat is, not LotR or The Hobbit.
Ye Gods, they're even worse. Not even hardened JRRT fans can finish the Silmarillion, so I'm told.
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They can and do (well, this one did)Though it was more an effort of will and an exercise in adolescent bloody-mindedness than a leisure pastime.
IMO the films did well to ditch the interminable folk songs and poetry recitals of the books, and really really well to completely excise all the Tom Bombadil bollocks. Fol-de-rol my arse.
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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:57,
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He'll always be Tim Benzedrine to meThe only thing I remember from Bored Of The Rings
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