I wasn't that impressed with it. It was good, but not even really that good, certainly not great. I was actually somewhat disappointed with it, and I think that it was several hundred pages longer than it actually needed to be.Oliman43 said:Just an errant thought that crossed my mind, as I read it quite recently and I thought it was an epic that should be required reading for all.
Hat's off to you my friend. I tried to read the Silmarillion, woke up 4 hours later on page 7 and decided that it just wasn't going to work out. I wasn't even tired when I read it.Ulvai said:All of it. Also, Silmarillion
The trick to reading fantasy (well LotR and Robert Jordan anyway) is learning where you can skim thru some of the text. I skimmed thru parts where he'd start describing the scenery in such great detail. You tell me there's a castle I already have it pictured in my head.spartan231490 said:I wasn't that impressed with it. It was good, but not even really that good, certainly not great. I was actually somewhat disappointed with it, and I think that it was several hundred pages longer than it actually needed to be.Oliman43 said:Just an errant thought that crossed my mind, as I read it quite recently and I thought it was an epic that should be required reading for all.
Wrong, I love long descriptions. I loved WoT because of the lengthy descriptions, they just add to my immersion. I mean that there are entire sections of those books that really have no bearing on the story. Like the entire Tom Bombadil section(didn't mind that one cuz it was awesome) or the section where Merry and Pipen fight over the magic water. Or the part where Legolas shoots down one of the fell beasts(the nazgul has another mount like 40 pages later), the list goes on. Also, there wasn't really any magic, and I love my magic in fantasy. More specifically, all the magic was off-screen so to speak. Gandalf fought with his sword 90% of the time or more. Also, the battle descriptions were hardly there at all. Finally, the pace is just sooooooooooo slow because of all the stuff that happens that really doesn't matter. That's why I don't like LoTRKrychek08 said:The trick to reading fantasy (well LotR and Robert Jordan anyway) is learning where you can skim thru some of the text. I skimmed thru parts where he'd start describing the scenery in such great detail. You tell me there's a castle I already have it pictured in my head.spartan231490 said:I wasn't that impressed with it. It was good, but not even really that good, certainly not great. I was actually somewhat disappointed with it, and I think that it was several hundred pages longer than it actually needed to be.Oliman43 said:Just an errant thought that crossed my mind, as I read it quite recently and I thought it was an epic that should be required reading for all.
I'm not saying I'd skip those paragraphs, just skim thru to get a basic idea of what type of castle/forest/whatever it is.