| Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2002 J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Lord Of The Rings – The Return Of The King”. I was quite surprised about “the scouring of the Shire” in the end. I did not expect that at all. I kept wondering what it was all about, as the book had had it’s ending….. Was an interesting turn of events though. I thought that Aragorn and quite a few of the other characters were a bit one-dimensional in the last two books. Except for the hobbits they all were a bit colourless. I really liked the storyline of Frodo and Sam, though. Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2002 J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Lord Of The Rings – The Two Towers”. I think I liked “Fellowship…” better, not sure yet, why. Let me think about that one some more. Noticed something – the heroes spend a lot of time eating and sleeping. Or talking about eating and sleeping. Or looking for places to sleep or eat in. Coincidence? Perhaps Tolkien was a foody, who liked to sleep a lot? It has something reassuring and makes me really comfy, to read about food and sleep all the time. Granted, mostly they talk about those things, because they don’t have enough of either… Tuesday, Apr. 09, 2002 J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Lord Of The Rings – The Fellowship Of The Ring”. I actually only wanted to read that one and then stop, to keep pace with the movies. But I can’t wait another two Christmas seasons to finish the book…. Very good so far, finished it in the car this morning And I am already 40 pages into “The Two Towers”. Everybody told me that the first 100 pages drag a bit, but I didn’t think that at all, I really liked it. I actually thought it was a bit tedious more towards the end, all this to-ing and fro-ing up the mountains, down the mountains, under the mountains, eastwards and southwards and whatever... But generally very good, I think the movie caught the feel of the book very well. Obviously, while reading, I have the movie playing in the back of my mind. I wonder how I would have perceived the book without having seen the film beforehand. All this poetry and everybody bursting into song is not really my cup of tea, but then I have never been one for poetry…. But all in all much more readable than I thought it would be. |
| Books, books and books......... |
| Links to my all-time favourites... Wilbur Smith Lindsey Davis Stephen King Dean Koontz Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Michael Connelly Bill Bryson ...and other things.... Amazon Deutschland Amazon UK Oprah's Bookclub Not Oprah's Bookclub!! The Book Haven Books I gave up on.... |
| The last 10 books I read: J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings – The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring John Harvey - Lonely Hearts Lindsey Davis - A Body In The Bath House Anne McCaffrey - The Dolphins Of Pern Tom Clancy - Clear And Present Danger Tom Clancy - Without Remorse Andreas Eschbach - Das Jesus Video (German) Kim Stanley Robinson - Green Mars |
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| .........in April 2002 |