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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5796998" data-attributes="member: 54846"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rant.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant&nbsp; &nbsp; :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I own the Hobbit (and do plan to get around to it). But my issue with Tolkien is 1) his habit of going completely offroad to wax on about leaf structures or some other unrelated tangent for multiple pages. 2) All that damn singing. Yes, he was trying to recreate storytelling through bardic tales of yore, but no thanks. As an editor/writer, these both grind my teeth. So it becomes a Tedious read. Not counting the books I set down because I didn't like/got distracted, I finished roughly 26 books last year, so it's not like I'm a stranger to reading. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Although looking at the list that I did read, very little was strictly fantasy, aside from Dark Jenny. Unless you count Urban Fantasy (modern-day wizards and monsters and the like) which is my favorite genre.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 5796998, member: 54846"] :rant: :p I own the Hobbit (and do plan to get around to it). But my issue with Tolkien is 1) his habit of going completely offroad to wax on about leaf structures or some other unrelated tangent for multiple pages. 2) All that damn singing. Yes, he was trying to recreate storytelling through bardic tales of yore, but no thanks. As an editor/writer, these both grind my teeth. So it becomes a Tedious read. Not counting the books I set down because I didn't like/got distracted, I finished roughly 26 books last year, so it's not like I'm a stranger to reading. :) Although looking at the list that I [I]did[/I] read, very little was strictly fantasy, aside from [I]Dark Jenny[/I]. Unless you count Urban Fantasy (modern-day wizards and monsters and the like) which is my favorite genre. [/QUOTE]

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