(June 8, 2017 at 4:58 pm)TheRealJoeFish Wrote: Also, if you want to talk boring, LOTR is... well, boring. Very very good. But very very boring. They're not mutually exclusive. (summary of 90% of Fellowship: the nine walked west, and the river lay in front of them. They continued, and then the river was behind them, and they kept walking, for there were many miles to go and dozens more rivers to cross.)
LOL. When I was young I read LOTR a few times, but when I was stoned, and didn't notice that. I've picked it up a number of times since being sober and couldn't get through it for just that reason. You're not exaggerating much there. It really is like that.