Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site packet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd70!packet!cfv From: cfv@packet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SotT comments Message-ID: <285@packet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 12:49:04 EDT Article-I.D.: packet.285 Posted: Thu Jun 30 12:49:04 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jul-83 22:37:07 EDT References: <1206@tektronix.UUCP> Organization: PacketCable,Inc. Cupertino, CA. Lines: 20 Complaining that Wolfe keeps meandering off onto something totally unrelated? Funny, I can't seem to remember where Tom Bombadil really related into the true scope of LOTR...... SotT is NOT a fast paced book. It was not written to be a fast paced book. If you want fast pacing, read Return of the Jedi. It is a very detailed and imaginative book that tries to envelope you in an entire culture. It makes you THINK and it involves you in the material. It is not, as I call it, an easy read. If you are looking for something that will throw everything at you, find another book. SotT makes you reach in and work with the book and allows you to build the reality of Urth with your own feelings as well as what the book says. I had a lot of trouble getting into SotT at first simply because there are so few books that make demands on my brain out there that I had trouble learning how to think and react to a book again. THAT is what made SotT so enjoyable for me, and so rare in the publishing industry... -- >From the dungeons of the Warlock: Chuck Von Rospach ucbvax!amd70!packet!cfv (chuqui@mit-mc) <- obsolete!