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The Return Of The King now. My favorite Tolkien book. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields and Mount Doom chapters are just so amazing I find it hard to describe it. Gives me goosebumpbs like nothing else!
Frodo and Sams struggle, hoplessness and bravery at the end is so beautiful. Theoden and Eomer's several charges and heroisime on the fields of Pelennor.
The Return Of The King now. My favorite Tolkien book. The Battle of the Pelennor Fields and Mount Doom chapters are just so amazing I find it hard to describe it. Gives me goosebumpbs like nothing else!
Frodo and Sams struggle, hoplessness and bravery at the end is so beautiful. Theoden and Eomer's several charges and heroisime on the fields of Pelennor.
Re-reading the 2006 book by former Columbia University Professor Fritz Stern (1926-2016), "Five Germanys I have known", in the 2007 German translation.
I read this a good while ago but while I remembered a story of action I read it now as a novel of ideas: ideas that seem as relevant as ever these days. Culture reduced to mindless TV shows shown on huge wall sized TVs...
In the original....what? Original edition? That would be a 1957 edition.
I have a hardcover 1971 edition...discard from a library...I guess Bradbury's warning was too farfetched for them and, bookburning being frowned upon (currently anyway 😉) they discarded it.
My dear @Deimos - I applaud you, "There are so many swell places for a person to keep his mouth shut." Absolutely excellent.
As the Enting says: "There is much to be said for saying little."
My dear @Deimos - I applaud you, "There are so many swell places for a person to keep his mouth shut." Absolutely excellent.
As the Enting says: "There is much to be said for saying little."
Thanks for the kudos, but please don't assume it is my original thought/saying because it isn't.
And as far as "doing" (dear God I sound like Yoda), it has taken me over 50 years merely to learn the truth of it. 🙁
Thank you for the clarification, but even posting it whether yours or not, can put you at risk with some. (People are easily offended these days.) You still earn my applause.
Thank you for the clarification, but even posting it whether yours or not, can put you at risk with some. (People are easily offended these days.) You still earn my applause.
Not such a bad thing. Young as he was, he spoke some wisdom nonetheless.
And yet most never do..! So I also maintain my evaluation of "absolutely excellent..!"
Just finished Vertigo the novel by the French writing pair Boileau/Narcejac. it's an engaging psychological thriller set in WW2 France with a plot that is similar to the Hitchcock film. There's a lot of French style introspection by the main character, but it's still well above the average murder mystery. Hitchcock used it to produce something better as I've argued elsewhere.
Still working through LoTR again, bringing Hammond and Scull's Companion alongside chapter by chapter.
Also nearing halfway though SIL again.
Rereading our own Bosko Took's "The Dangerous Truth" again as well, some revision having been done.
And have brought alongside his other book "W.B. Yeats and the Secret Masters of the World."
I can never manage to focus on just one thing at a time it seems.
I seem to be developing a desire to reread Asimov's Foundation series again too... only read through it all once, and recall thinking it was somewhat well written and held together well. Also dealt interestingly with several psychological principles worth pondering.
Read them many times. They are not remotely copies of LOTR with a completely different premise and setting. Nor are they junk, rather well crafted and well thought out tales with a strong moral compass, insight into the human condition, and a touch of deft humour.