RE: [DL] Re: Product updates [D&D OT]

["Heivilin, Jim" <banzai@missouri.edu>]

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: PEGShane@aol.com [mailto:PEGShane@aol.com]
>>Subject: Re: [DL] Re: Product updates [D&D OT]
>>In a message dated 12/1/2000 12:45:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>>banzai@missouri.edu writes: 
>>
>>But I'll bet she's never read the LOTR trilogy either.  Or has and doesn't

>>like it. 
>>Jim 
>
>I haven't either. ;) I've tried to read the first one like 5 times now and
I 
>can't get past the hobbit hoedown. 
>
Which one?  The Hobbit or the first of the trilogy.  It's been years since I
read it and I can't seem to find any of my copies so most of my comments
will probably be inaccurate. 

>It's SO BORING! I know it gets great later 
>on, but the first 100 pages or whatever are awful. 
>
That seems to be a problem with many "classics" or examples of "high
literature".  But then I'm an engineer and computer geek so my opinion would
be simply from the enjoyability aspect rather than some review or critique.
Personally I got a bunch of the old classics a few years ago (Dracula, The
Time Machine, War of the Worlds, Frankenstein, etc) and read them.  The only
one I couldn't get through was Shelley's.  No idea why and I did try
multiple times.  

As far as Tolkien, keep hacking at it and after about 150 pages it gets way
better.  The only one of his I read and didn't think was great was "The
Silmarillion" and it wasn't that the story was bad or anything, but each
main character had a name in each language (human, elvish, dwarvish, etc).
And at major events in their lives they would change their name (losing an
eye/arm, death of a spouse, etc).  It made it difficult to keep everyone
straight.  

>Just my opinion. Please don't beat me. I've had a rough week. ;) 
>
Never. 

Jimbo