[at-l] OT - LOTR

[janl2@mindspring.com (Jan Leitschuh)]

Wow, maybe now, inspired by the courage of these two and pioneering brave
listers,  I, too, can come out of the closet.
After all, there is safety in numbers.

Read Hobitt to the kids six years ago. That's the only way I came to finish
it.
It was okay. Otherwise unmoved.

I saw Clyde was reading it on the Stop Smoking Hike the Labor Day. He was
ambivalent then. S'true Clyde, admit it (I'm "outing you!)". Whut happened? 


cballs@mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> Leslie Booher <lwbooher@halifax.com> wrote:
> > OK, compare LOTR with Harry Potter for us, please.  I know you saw them
> both.  I'd never read any Tolkien before, so I started The Hobbit around
> Thanksgiving, but I just can't get through it.  I have about 100 pages left
> to read, and every time I read some, I still have 100 pages left.  It's like
> chewing something that swells as you chew it.  But I loved the Harry Potter
> books and the movie.  anklebear
> 
> Anklebear, I love you, marry me.  Are you a man?  I too chewed on "The Hobbit" for years and I just never could get it to go down.   I plodded, I strolled, I tip-toed, I nibbled, I tried to swallow, I sat up, I laid back down, I walked around, I smoked some pot, I tried making a salad out of it, I basted and boiled it, once I BBQ'd it. I wrote Ann Landers. I tried running away.  I went into therapy.  I prayed. I joined a commune.  I went to school.  I got in a sensory-deprivation tank.  Nothing I did made me interested. After countless attempts, every time I opened the book I was still on page 2.  At one point, I decided to just skip "The Hobbit" and so I bought the 24 ct. gold-trimmed, hand-sewn, acid-free, ribbon marker boxed set of the Trilogy printed in a rarely used 16th century serif typeface thinking that that would inspire me.  After the fist sentence I fell off the bed and bumped my head so I flipped to the last page and it just looked like $#($%8wkd!@##.  @e9rr5644!
>  $#!
> @@@()), for the entire page! I thought Gandolf had deveoped Tourette's Syndrome.  I felt really bad about it.  I was Hobbit-challenged.  Nothing could make me fall in love with wierd short furry quasi-human looking creatures who lived in the dirt.  It was all a hopeless, expensive nightmare.  I finally had to face the painful, ugly truth - I was a failed teenager.  I wasn't a Hobbit Hater, it's that Tolkien's work engages me with the same fasciniation as tying my shoes.
> 
> Now about Harry Potter.  Fun book.  Fun movie. Moves to fast.  Didn't care for the marketing values (banks/branding) in a book about witches and thought that Christmas was a little odd in it too. But then it's a book for children.  Have no intention of reading more than the firit one.  Maggie Smith is a marvel in everything she does.
> 
> Harry Balls
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