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Post by Aribeth on Sept 20, 2007 19:00:10 GMT -5
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Post by MMADfan on Sept 20, 2007 20:35:47 GMT -5
Couldn't pick among them -- they are all so different to me.
BTW, remember: not all who wander are lost!
Gotta love Strider . . .
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Post by monsie on Sept 20, 2007 23:48:15 GMT -5
It took me a year to read The Hobbit. I still haven't finished Fellowship of the Ring (I started it in... I don't know. It's been a while) and I read the entire series of HP in one month. I think which one I liked best is fairly obvious.
Movie wise it might not be the case, but for the books, definitely - HP all the way!
Note: I have no idea what Dune is about.
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Post by Drake on Sept 23, 2007 20:01:08 GMT -5
"Why oh why did I ever leave my Hobbit hole?"
I adore the Hobbit. ADORE ADORE ADORE. LotR was honestly to big and epic and mando for me to really get into, but the Hobbit...
ADORE ADORE ADORE.
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Post by AthenaDumbledore on Sept 24, 2007 8:25:08 GMT -5
Hopefully I'm not the only one who can appreciate the wonder that is LotR? Sure, HP is great and the books read effortlessly, but still, are people ever going to call it classic literature?
I think I love both of them for entirely different reasons that I can't explain all that easily. As for the Hobbit, I have the audiobook version read by Martin Shaw... To me, that's a very close second to Alan Rickman. I just melt at the thought of these cd's. However could I not like the Hobbit...?
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Post by mmadlyinlove on Sept 24, 2007 21:43:23 GMT -5
I read the Hobbit in seventh grade so I don't remember much except I did like it, and I could never really finish the whole LOTR series, so HP.... ~mmadlyinlove~
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Post by StormAngel on Sept 25, 2007 8:36:17 GMT -5
I didn't choose any 'cause my favorites are tied between LOTR and Harry Potter and the dark is rising. I utterly love LOTR for it's plot line. I remember the days I used to camp outside the library waiting for 11 am and rushing in to read till 3. =) Gotta love LOTR.
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Post by MMADfan on Sept 25, 2007 14:27:57 GMT -5
I didn't choose any 'cause my favorites are tied between LOTR and Harry Potter and the dark is rising. I utterly love LOTR for it's plot line. I remember the days I used to camp outside the library waiting for 11 am and rushing in to read till 3. =) Gotta love LOTR. Isn't The Dark is Rising series great? I don't think I much liked the last one, but the first few are terrific. They were among my favorite books when I was a kid. I haven't looked at them in years, but they were really good. Over Sea, Under Stone and Greenwitch were, I think, the ones I liked best, but it's hard to remember. I liked Wrinkle in Time, too, but the books in that series became strange and I didn't like the way the series progressed. I think I liked the first two and not the last two, from what I remember. But I haven't read them in years, either. I love Charles de Lint's Newford books. They're not children's books, though. Memory and Dream is one of my faves, and Dreams Under Foot, and Ivory and Horn, too. Not all of them are equally good, but I think many of them are really excellent. I also love his female characters. Does anyone else like de Lint? |
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Post by Aribeth on Sept 25, 2007 14:40:24 GMT -5
I didn't choose any 'cause my favorites are tied between LOTR and Harry Potter and the dark is rising. I utterly love LOTR for it's plot line. I remember the days I used to camp outside the library waiting for 11 am and rushing in to read till 3. =) Gotta love LOTR. Thank you! My favorite is Lord of the Rings. Sorry J.K. Rowling but you copied there is NOTHING original in her books! Not saying it's bad I did like them but Frodo is Harry and Dumbledore is Gandalf and Sam is Ron and Saurun is Voldemort. And people the Horcruxes were already made and so was the Elder Wand! go back to ancient folklore! I have proof! Oh and Dune is a series for older people it's really hard reading and it's scary. I had nightmares for days! |
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Post by adelerose on Sept 25, 2007 15:34:09 GMT -5
I think the reference and use of myth and legend in LOTR are fascinating, as is Tolkien's use of linguistics to help flesh out the reality of the different cultures with the different languages. Of course, he wasn't the first or the last to use or recycle myths or legends in exploring universal themes -- and I doubt that JKR will be the last to do so, whether it's mythology or British legends or folklore that she drew on. The Dark is Rising series does a fabulous job of drawing on Arthurian legend and British and Celtic folklore; that came out when I was young, and I remember waiting impatiently for the new books in the series. Of course, Shakespeare famously drew on myth, legend, and history when writing his plays. Sometimes authors do it well and with a good portion of originality and inventiveness, and sometimes they don't do it very well. I certainly admire Susan Cooper's translation of myth and legend into modern day times, and JKR did quite well, too, although I think that sometimes the derivativeness of certain aspects of her work was too distractingly obvious. But then, I found the third book of LOTR heavy-going with the faux-high-flown language. And I read that at the time that I was loving the Song of Roland and Beowulf -- it was just jarring to me in LOTR. Still, I thought that LOTR was better at the "happy ending" than HP, and the deaths made more sense. Too many people just died, clunk, in HP. But that's all just MHO!
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Post by lenoralupin on Sept 29, 2007 6:03:24 GMT -5
Um...Can I just pick all and be done with it? -_-;;
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Post by mmadlyinlove on Sept 30, 2007 15:03:24 GMT -5
No, Lenora, no... You can't because you lose! ~mmadlyinlove~
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Post by StormAngel on Oct 1, 2007 4:23:23 GMT -5
Dune is quite okay... I absolutely adore the book. =) Kinda scary though...
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Post by Hufflepuff99 on Jun 17, 2015 18:26:46 GMT -5
Honestly my fav is His Dark Materials... but Harry Potter is a close second.
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