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Moe Shinola

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40. Yes, LOTR & Cryptonomicon bored me, too...

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Tue Jul 17, 2012, 09:16 PM

Jul 2012

Also, I was trying to make my way through Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast(due to high praise on listverse.com), but now I keep looking at it on the shelf and getting the "shoulds" since I got about a quarter through but was just soooo bored. LOTR is a great concept, but long stretches, particularly in The Two Towers, just drag and drag. Cryptonomicon is the same way. I never did get out of the desert of setup and into the meat of story. Weird about Tolkien. I've read through the Silmarillion many times and never get bored with it. I'd recommend Fred Saberhagen's Empire of the East for a fantasy story that moves fast. I've read a little Andre Norton and can recommend Voorloper. The Eight by Katherine Neville is a good techno-type thriller that dosen't bore(though it's actually about chess).

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