Reading The Hobbit as a kid is one of my favorite childhood memories. Not sure what that says about my childhood, but I was completely enthralled by that story.
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Ditto, after which i blew through Lord of the Rings in a summer in my teen years. Amazing story it says most about your lust for exploration and good imho
I tried to read that. Got about 20 pages into it and it was still describing hobbiton. Never made it further.
it's not as painful as Lovecraft, yeesh that shit is slow as cold molasses
You mean reading ? I also read some love raft storys and as a fand of subtile horror you know like suspira and such things, i did like reading lovecraft.
Still king is king :-)
tolkein is way way better than lovecraft
i agree, he is detailed, but it's not boring details, and if you find the details that tolkein liked boring YOU are boring
Depends i found tolkien much more detaild if you jnto that stuff, like the silmarilon or lotr but there are often parts that bored me, aragorn sure had his moments :-)
Stop being mean just people have different opinions on books is politness.
Is what YOU tell me ?
Nah
you never read tolkein, not even his most simplified story
for me reading hobbit was a literal day of reading
but on the other hand, i read Mises Human Action twice over a period of about 2 months, that thing is literally as thick as the bible, and i still haven't read the bible, the bible is much harder to read than Mises
lol! for me, anyway
mises was only hard for me with all the latin funny words he used
I tried to read the Bible once. All I remember was pages and pages of “A begat B”, “B begat C”, “C begat D” and so on and so forth.
yeah, i haven't even finished genesis in my attempt of recent, it is very tedious
Bible can be a tough read but it’s worth it.
I had to grow up & wake up A LOT before it really started making sense.
my issue with this reading is that my livelihood depends on me reading these flickering screens, and after i am done with that i don't want to do more reading
been trying to dial back the screen time... got lotta things to sort out, i live in paradise here and i hardly stick my head outside the window
I also very old fashioned in these thinks i mean my long retired dad is using a e-reader, while i love books.just comparing things, you know.
As for holy scriptures they all got something, but as often it is what you think, that forms out your reality.
Someone else into “books” ?
Real page turning books > digital readers IMHO.
But audio works well if too busy.
If you want to try again, try starting in the New Testament and then going back to read the Old Testament. A Bible reading plan or study group can also be helpful.
There’s a Nostr Bible study meeting on Cornychat every Tuesday at 8:30 pm EST (literally just wrapped it up tonight), you’re welcome to join if you want!
I was bored by Frank Herberts world building but not his story telling.
the stuff about the bene gesserit was not boring
Way better than house harkonnen , i guess :-)
I meant planetary, geography, environmental, fauna and flora. That type of thing. I prefer world building that is less explanatory and through a discovery process.
To be honest barely even remember those parts. I've read the book twice. There was lots of things in all of the film and tv versions that were not even in the book.
Anyway, the maps and scripts were the things that enchanted me in LotR, my mother read The Hobbit to me and my sister in our childhood. I didn't read the trilogy until 2010. Now that is detailed, I agree. But it was well paced, just dense.
Vernor Vinge and Neal Stephenson do this well. They drop you right into the action and reveal the world as you go.
Yes. Thats the way. My mind can easily adapt to morph the world into perspective as new information becomes available. Have you read my story nostr:nprofile1qqsxzsz83jdwztcapd2qulzhspnyjvn6jxcypvrl0w3aahp40j4smfgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn976av6t? I have a chapter that really builds world through dialogue.
I didn’t know you wrote something. Link?
The hobbit is Tolkiens best book imo , i also read that with 16 , somewhere in the 90s.I still remember the dwarfs rushing into the house, gave me a few laughts