[Dragon]

That's classic Russian literature for you. Crime and Punishment, for example, also has very slow pacing and a lot of questionable characters.

[Swazi Spring]

Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A Heinlein

And as always: The Holy Bible

[Trivial Psychic]

After I finish the a fore-mentioned internet literature, I plan on immersing myself in Tolken once again.

[LordMelvin]

That's classic Russian literature for you. Crime and Punishment, for example, also has very slow pacing and a lot of questionable characters.

I don't mind slow pacing. I don't mind questionable characters. I don't even mind characters I actively root against. I just have yet to meet a single character who I don't despise, and that makes for slow reading.

[Swazi Spring]

After I finish the a fore-mentioned internet literature, I plan on immersing myself in Tolken once again.
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I have The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit on my Kindle and have been meaning to read them eventually. My two best friends are huge Tolkien fans.

[Grizzly]

If you like the holy bible, you'll probably love the Lord of the Rings. The book is very christian in it's nature.

[Trivial Psychic]

Oddly enough, Tolken claimed no conscious inspiration from the Bible when writing LOTR.  Incidentally, if you're looking for Biblical parallels in Tolken's work, go for the Silmarillion... if you can handle it. 

[Mongoose]

In my experience, the first read-through of The Silmarillion is pretty brutal.  It becomes much easier the second time around, when you have at least a general idea of who all the characters are and what they're doing.

I finished Dune some time ago, but I never got around to doing a quick sum-up of my reaction to it in here, so I still need to do that.  It's not something I usually get the chance to do with something I've read.

[Luis Dias]

About Dune.... I'm particularly fond of Dune IV as a kind of a tyrant spinoff even though it is the main timeline story and all. Leto II has particularly good quotes.

[Trivial Psychic]

In my experience, the first read-through of The Silmarillion is pretty brutal.  It becomes much easier the second time around, when you have at least a general idea of who all the characters are and what they're doing.

The appendices at the end of ROTK is what caught my attention.  It gives enough info to introduce some of the basic events and characters.

[Grizzly]

Oddly enough, Tolken claimed no conscious inspiration from the Bible when writing LOTR.  Incidentally, if you're looking for Biblical parallels in Tolken's work, go for the Silmarillion... if you can handle it. 

I have read the Silmarillion (Tolien's works were an option for study during theological class, and I was rather intrigued by it being an option, it meant I had to read the Silmarillion). Interesting book. Even more interesting that he spent basically his entire life writing it, never finished it, and that it is read less then LOTR and the hobbit, whilst LOTR came to existence by chance.

[Mikes]

If you like the holy bible, you'll probably love the Lord of the Rings. The book is very christian in it's nature.

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."

... is still a favorite quote at Christian weddings

[Ghostavo]

You missed the first five verses.

Which imply polygamy.

[Colonol Dekker]

War of Honor.

Getting through tthe series slowly guys.

[The E]

War of Honor.

Getting through tthe series slowly guys.

Be prepared for quite a long time of nothing at all happening and the writing getting even more infodumpy. IMO, the series has recently begun to get better again, but it's still not quite as good as it was in its beginning.

[Colonol Dekker]

As i debarked the train this morn -

Spoiler:

Sam chose Hamish Alexander as her treecat "soulmate"

I do like quite a bit of exposition. Buuuuuuut, if it's long and drawn out across numerous books, I may just hang myself.

[The E]

The thing is, once the Haven War storyline wraps up and the implications of the expanded Wormhole Node start to sink in, the books enter a period where the same few months of chronology are covered from several different angles while the series gets retooled for the next big conflict. Once that's done, the action picks up again.

[Colonol Dekker]

I quite like the Havenite dolist scum.
They remind me of my council estate roots.

I'm deciding wether to read the main series in one go then read the filler compilations, or try to read it all chronologically. Seeing as i'm on book ten and the organisiation of the series requires a hard copy reference guide (for me at least ) I think i'll stick to the former.

[The E]

Personally, I'd stick to the official chronology, skipping the short stories unless you really want to read them.

[Colonol Dekker]

That's exactly what I refer to