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Subject: Re: SotT comments
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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
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