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kleinbl00  ·  3624 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'bl00's Reviews #7: "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco

Often.

I've downloaded Lord of the Rings. It's in the queue.





user-inactivated  ·  3624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm genuinely worried.

user-inactivated  ·  3624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And I, on the other hand, am extremely excited for what is to come.

coffeesp00ns  ·  3624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be fair, it's pretty easy to tear Tolkien a new asshole. He was a linguistic genius, and he created a world, history and creation story in full technicolour, but he wasn't very good at talking about it. I think if someone else had taken his source material and written LOTR it would actually be a much better book.