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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8703984" data-attributes="member: 22779">Y'know, the Simarillion is one of the few fantasy books I've never, ever managed to get through.  I've tried multiple times and I just can't.  It's why this new Amazon series just does not interest me at all.  Basing a whole series on what is, in my mind anyway, the most mind bogglingly boring book of all time is just not something I want to see.Hopefully enough other people like it though.  The better it does, the better the chances are that I'll actually get to see something I do want to see.Then again, I find most of the door stopper fantasy stuff just a huge turn off.  A Song of Fire and Ice was a complete slog.  While I loved Tad William's Dragonbone chair series, all his later stuff just leaves me cold.  If you can't tell your story in under 300 pages, I'm just not interested anymore.  And, frankly, preferably under 100 pages to be honest.</blockquote>