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dustydigger
Posted 2023-04-01 3:33 AM (#26899 - in reply to #26684)
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Location: UK		EEK! I must get back into reading more SF/F! Of course I did read 5 of the Amber books,always fun to return to Amber,but its taking a lot of time getting through Lord of the Rings. I have about 90 pages left of the Two Towers section,then its Return of the King. Still delightful,but its taking a lot of doing,as my reading speed has slowed to a crawl, barely 20 - 25 pages an hour,since I have to take frequent rests,and the pages are densely packed.As ever I am loving the super descriptions of landscape.Tolkien is just brilliant at making the landscapes just super real. Every forest is different,unique. After crossing the Dead Marshes,and seeing the horrific desolation of the Black Gates,journeying through the heather and spring growth in Ithilien is so beautiful and refreshing. And we saw an Oliphant! Indeed when anyone mentions LOTR,what springs to my mind is eating stewed rabbit and seeing the oliphant.Still as delightful as when I carted around my big one volume paperback edition when in was released in the summer of 1968
So April must see through this latest reread of LOTR,and at least a few SF novels,though I will be spending some time on Beowulf and Grendel,and even Sophocles.
Hopefully I can get stern with myself and read a lot of SF in May. Can but hope

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