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  • Typical western sytle fantasy, I mean...too typical

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  • I'll probably never "finish". I find reading J.R.R.'s masterpiece quite tedious.

    

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  • Have read all three in high school & have reread the series at least twice.

    

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  • I had to buy the boxed set when the movies came out. I have very old, very delicate copies of each book from a 1967 printing with the foreward by Peter S. Beagle, but they have been read so often that they are crumbling away.

    

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  • I think this was a little bit more challenging to read. I look forward to the next one.

    

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