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 		Lord of the Rings was pretty tough to get through the first time I read it. Best book I ever read for educational purposes was The Wasp Factory in English before I left university. Awesome book. Read it before the class, but yet.
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Clairabel wrote:
Lord of the Rings was pretty tough to get through the first time I read it. Best book I ever read for educational purposes was The Wasp Factory in English before I left university. Awesome book. Read it before the class, but yet.


My only issue with that series was The Two Towers. God. Awful. Slow. :V It was like jesus fuck Tolkien can you get to the fucking point already? :V

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Clairabel wrote:
Lord of the Rings was pretty tough to get through the first time I read it. Best book I ever read for educational purposes was The Wasp Factory in English before I left university. Awesome book. Read it before the class, but yet.

True that. Also, the Harry Potter series. When i was an angsty pre-teen it was easy to read them, up until the fifth book, when it's just a bunch of them whining about how life is unfair and their teachers are mean. Since I had the exact same mindset at the time I didn't want to read about other people with that problem. I tried to read through it on 4 different occasions but I'd always get bored of it less than a quarter of the way in. After that I could never justify reading the sixth book without finishing it, read the seventh because I couldn't end the series by watching the movies without reading the real ending first.

Since then the only series I've been able to complete without need for motivation is Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I'm really not a fan of King normally, but that series of books just really hit home to me for some reason.
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ReeseSparrow wrote:
Clairabel wrote:
Lord of the Rings was pretty tough to get through the first time I read it. Best book I ever read for educational purposes was The Wasp Factory in English before I left university. Awesome book. Read it before the class, but yet.

True that. Also, the Harry Potter series. When i was an angsty pre-teen it was easy to read them, up until the fifth book, when it's just a bunch of them whining about how life is unfair and their teachers are mean. Since I had the exact same mindset at the time I didn't want to read about other people with that problem. I tried to read through it on 4 different occasions but I'd always get bored of it less than a quarter of the way in. After that I could never justify reading the sixth book without finishing it, read the seventh because I couldn't end the series by watching the movies without reading the real ending first.

Since then the only series I've been able to complete without need for motivation is Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I'm really not a fan of King normally, but that series of books just really hit home to me for some reason.


The DT series are great. Just don't read the ending.

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 		I love the Wheel of time series. That being said, the first part of the first chapter in every book is mind numbing and sometimes difficult to read through. especially the 3rd 4th or 5th time you read it. I can recite the first paragraph by memory these days.

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Nathanial wrote:
ReeseSparrow wrote:
Clairabel wrote:
Lord of the Rings was pretty tough to get through the first time I read it. Best book I ever read for educational purposes was The Wasp Factory in English before I left university. Awesome book. Read it before the class, but yet.

True that. Also, the Harry Potter series. When i was an angsty pre-teen it was easy to read them, up until the fifth book, when it's just a bunch of them whining about how life is unfair and their teachers are mean. Since I had the exact same mindset at the time I didn't want to read about other people with that problem. I tried to read through it on 4 different occasions but I'd always get bored of it less than a quarter of the way in. After that I could never justify reading the sixth book without finishing it, read the seventh because I couldn't end the series by watching the movies without reading the real ending first.

Since then the only series I've been able to complete without need for motivation is Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I'm really not a fan of King normally, but that series of books just really hit home to me for some reason.


The DT series are great. Just don't read the ending.

Haha yeah, that's what I love about it, only book I've ever read where the author tells you not to read the last bit. But so fantastically done either way.
I'll always remember the first sentence of the series.
"The man in black fled across the desert, the gunslinger followed.
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paladin181 wrote:
I love the Wheel of time series. That being said, the first part of the first chapter in every book is mind numbing and sometimes difficult to read through. especially the 3rd 4th or 5th time you read it. I can recite the first paragraph by memory these days.


Wheel of Time, huh?

Wait, you mean the whole bit about the wind, and about their being neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time, but this is a beginning?
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ReeseSparrow wrote:
Nathanial wrote:
ReeseSparrow wrote:
Clairabel wrote:
Lord of the Rings was pretty tough to get through the first time I read it. Best book I ever read for educational purposes was The Wasp Factory in English before I left university. Awesome book. Read it before the class, but yet.

True that. Also, the Harry Potter series. When i was an angsty pre-teen it was easy to read them, up until the fifth book, when it's just a bunch of them whining about how life is unfair and their teachers are mean. Since I had the exact same mindset at the time I didn't want to read about other people with that problem. I tried to read through it on 4 different occasions but I'd always get bored of it less than a quarter of the way in. After that I could never justify reading the sixth book without finishing it, read the seventh because I couldn't end the series by watching the movies without reading the real ending first.

Since then the only series I've been able to complete without need for motivation is Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I'm really not a fan of King normally, but that series of books just really hit home to me for some reason.


The DT series are great. Just don't read the ending.

Haha yeah, that's what I love about it, only book I've ever read where the author tells you not to read the last bit. But so fantastically done either way.
I'll always remember the first sentence of the series.
"The man in black fled across the desert, the gunslinger followed.


Yeah, me too. For awhile, I was worried King would die before he finished the series. It's something everyone should experience at least once. Will always love that series <3

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Nathanial wrote:
ReeseSparrow wrote:
Nathanial wrote:
ReeseSparrow wrote:
Clairabel wrote:
Lord of the Rings was pretty tough to get through the first time I read it. Best book I ever read for educational purposes was The Wasp Factory in English before I left university. Awesome book. Read it before the class, but yet.

True that. Also, the Harry Potter series. When i was an angsty pre-teen it was easy to read them, up until the fifth book, when it's just a bunch of them whining about how life is unfair and their teachers are mean. Since I had the exact same mindset at the time I didn't want to read about other people with that problem. I tried to read through it on 4 different occasions but I'd always get bored of it less than a quarter of the way in. After that I could never justify reading the sixth book without finishing it, read the seventh because I couldn't end the series by watching the movies without reading the real ending first.

Since then the only series I've been able to complete without need for motivation is Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I'm really not a fan of King normally, but that series of books just really hit home to me for some reason.


The DT series are great. Just don't read the ending.

Haha yeah, that's what I love about it, only book I've ever read where the author tells you not to read the last bit. But so fantastically done either way.
I'll always remember the first sentence of the series.
"The man in black fled across the desert, the gunslinger followed.


Yeah, me too. For awhile, I was worried King would die before he finished the series. It's something everyone should experience at least once. Will always love that series <3


I have that same exact fear for George RR. Martin and Game of Thrones.
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rand__althor wrote:
paladin181 wrote:
I love the Wheel of time series. That being said, the first part of the first chapter in every book is mind numbing and sometimes difficult to read through. especially the 3rd 4th or 5th time you read it. I can recite the first paragraph by memory these days.


Wheel of Time, huh?

Wait, you mean the whole bit about the wind, and about their being neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time, but this is a beginning?
Well, yeah. That and the epilogue of the series left me feeling a bit empty.

And as a huge fan of the WoT, I lived through that great fear of an author dying before finishing the series. Sad though it is, I see it as fortunate that he and Harriett got so much done in planning for Sanderson to finish it for him posthumously.

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paladin181 wrote:
rand__althor wrote:
paladin181 wrote:
I love the Wheel of time series. That being said, the first part of the first chapter in every book is mind numbing and sometimes difficult to read through. especially the 3rd 4th or 5th time you read it. I can recite the first paragraph by memory these days.


Wheel of Time, huh?

Wait, you mean the whole bit about the wind, and about their being neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time, but this is a beginning?
Well, yeah. That and the epilogue of the series left me feeling a bit empty.


Yeah, I wasn't that fond of "A Memory of Light", overall.
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rand__althor wrote:
paladin181 wrote:
rand__althor wrote:
paladin181 wrote:
I love the Wheel of time series. That being said, the first part of the first chapter in every book is mind numbing and sometimes difficult to read through. especially the 3rd 4th or 5th time you read it. I can recite the first paragraph by memory these days.


Wheel of Time, huh?

Wait, you mean the whole bit about the wind, and about their being neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time, but this is a beginning?
Well, yeah. That and the epilogue of the series left me feeling a bit empty.


Yeah, I wasn't that fond of "A Memory of Light", overall.
Agreed. THere were many things you'd have thought would get more emphasis and exposition after some of the earlier works set them up and then there was almost no pay off on some of those (admittedly minor) things.

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 		Since we're chatting about books. Any of you able to help me figure out the name of a book? I read it back in like the 7th grade. It was a bout a teenage girl who finds out that there's a society of people living under her city, and she befriends a boy from the society who went above ground against the rules of his society. Mostly the whole book concentrates on the relationship of the 2 characters growing over the story, etc etc etc.

Also as for series I didn't like. Couldn't stand the Golden Compass series my first read through, don't really remember why.

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 		I didn't really care for The Golden Compass either. In fact I don't think I even finished it. I can't really remember what I didn't like about it though.

As for Lord of the Rings, I've read through that series twice now and I've never really cared much for Tolkien's writing style. It's really dry and scholarly, almost like he's writing a history textbook instead of a novel. Some people dig that i guess, and think it's really cool that his world was so detailed that he could do that. The characters are pretty one dimensional for the most part though, I think Gollum is probably the most interesting character in the series. Jackson pretty much was forced to consign Legolas and Gimli to comic relief in the movies because there was so little to go off of in the books personality wise.

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You guys are amateurs. If you think The Great Gatsby is difficult, try reading my favorite novel: Naked Lunch, by the late, great William Burroughs. I'd recommend against the pop-up book version of it, though.

A friend of my sister's (who is six years older than me) once wrote an essay discussing Native Son, but was also reading Naked Lunch for the same class and had that book on her mind while she was writing. She ended up referring to the book as "Naked Son" for the entire essay.

The professor had some fun comments on that paper.

Also, I still haven't finished Knife of Dreams. I read most of Wheel of Time in high school when I had study halls that needed filling and on plane trips to family vacations.

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