He is ok, but Terry Pratchett is my literature god!
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He is ok, but Terry Pratchett is my literature god!
heheh discworld is great.....
i found tolkein or tolkien a bit dry for my tastes. sure it's good to have the whole world and its history mapped completely, and while i'm interested in that sort of thing, there's a bit TOO much depth for me. he was a genius who created and defined a genre. yay him.
LIEK OMG EYE HAVENT RED ANNI OF TEH BUKS TEH EL OH EL!
The Silmarillion feels somewhat disappointing now, after having read the histories of ME's creation. Christopher Tolkien left out alot of his father's work, and in one example, Dagor Dagorath. I'm a huge nerd about this, as I've read the Silmarillion fifteen times in the last year. That's not a good thing.
Tolkien == win.
lol, you sound a lot like me: I read the Swedish translation forever at first, and then I permanently changed to the English version.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tavrobel
I've read both versions about ten times now, I know the whole book from the top of my head, ffs. XD
I like how he made the world so real in the Hobbit. It was the little things that brought his world alive, like the stone giants throwing boulders during that storm.
Or when Bilbo's most heroic thing is life wasn't any of his deeds but just merely forcing himself to look around a corner to see Smaug for the first time.
I loved The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but I've yet to track down his other works. :( It's on my (fairly long) to-do list.