Am I the only person here who hasn't read LOTR?

[Dan Severn]

Originally posted by Oerdin
You haven't read LotRs? Next your going to tell me you don't know what Star Wars is...

That was the spoof of Spaceballs, right?

[JohnT]

Star Wars is overrated too.

No, I take that back. Star Wars is overrated. LOTR I haven't finished so I cannot make that determination. But SW is highly, highly overrated.

It really is a crappy film, and even worse science fiction.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by JohnT
No, you are not alone. I haven't read them either. Tried, but failed due to lack of interest. I got through the Hobbit and the first one (Fellowship of the Ring?), but decided not to waste my time on the following two books.

The following two books are actually better than the Fellowship.

I liked the Silmarrillion better than LOTR though.

[Boris Godunov]

You may not be the only person not to have read it, Dan, but that doesn't mean the others aren't culturally illiterate slobs, too!

[Asher]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
You may not be the only person not to have read it, Dan, but that doesn't mean the others aren't culturally illiterate slobs, too!

I refuse to read Tolkein's work because he was a luddite.

The bastard would put me out of a job if he had things his way! The nerve...

[loinburger]

I read the books years ago, but my dad's just started reading them. He's halfway through the Two Towers right now--took him a month to get through Fellowship (kept falling asleep), and took him three days to get halfway through Two Towers.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
You may not be the only person not to have read it, Dan, but that doesn't mean the others aren't culturally illiterate slobs, too!

Dag nabbit, if'n y'us here in Texas, I'd be tannin' yer hide, ya varmint.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Tuberski
I liked the Silmarrillion better than LOTR though.

Ugh. The Silmarillion read like a poorly written history book.

[Dan Severn]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
You may not be the only person not to have read it, Dan, but that doesn't mean the others aren't culturally illiterate slobs, too!

Mark Twain.

Now that's good reading. Especially "The Innocents Abroad." Though his short stories are most entertaining.

Just because a book is long does not mean it is good. See "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" I literally passed out after the first few pages.

How he got into college, I'll never know.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by loinburger


Ugh. The Silmarillion read like a poorly written history book.

True, i didn't like it for the story, i liked it because it WAS like a history book.

Even if badly written.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Dan Severn


Mark Twain.

Now that's good reading. Especially "The Innocents Abroad." Though his short stories are most entertaining.

Just because a book is long does not mean it is good. See "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" I literally passed out after the first few pages.

How he got into college, I'll never know.

I will not tolerate Hugo-bashing. He was one of the greatest novelists ever. PERIOD. No discussion permitted.

I read LOTR when I was in 8th grade, before it was trendy, and I loved it. I found it to be an extremely evocative book.

But I always beat the trends. I came out just before it became trendy, and I was a Titanic buff well before Cameron's schlockfest.

And shut up about SW, dammit. Must be a generational thing.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Uh, there should be an "I haven't read them" option...

I hate polls that never give those!

[loinburger]

That's the "Lord of the Bannanananannanas" option.

[Dan Severn]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
Uh, there should be an "I haven't read them" option...

I hate polls that never give those!

The first is for that purpose.

The default is 4 choices; my internet is too slopw to change them.

[Ramo]

I've read LOTR a long, long time ago, but it didn't make much of an impression on me. Shortly before the "Fellowship" movie came out, I tried re-reading it. God, "Fellowship of the Ring" bored me out of my mind. I stopped after getting 3/4 or so through the book (I don't remember the last time I've stopped reading a novel before it was finished).

Yeah, I know that "Twin Towers" is supposed to be much more interesting, but the same people who say that believe "Fellowship" was a great book.