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Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker
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I have just started. Anyone else?
Not yet, but I'm planning to start soon :)
I am about 230 pages into my edition - I find this one far harder going than The Two Towers. It just feels so dense!
I started now as well. I'm planning to do one chapter a day because I have a lot of other stuff to read atm.Lola wrote: "I am about 230 pages into my edition - I find this one far harder going than The Two Towers. It just feels so dense!"
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RotK definitely has some slower parts, especially the last part.
I have finished it (I did not bother reading the appendices - sorry!).I gave it (shock! horror!) 2 stars.
I actually really like the overall story being told, but this final book was just so gloomy and uninteresting. I thought the story had picked up with The Two Towers, but I really did not like the way the ending was written. I have no problem with the ending per se - I just did not like the writing.
Bea wrote: "I started now as well. I'm planning to do one chapter a day because I have a lot of other stuff to read atm.Lola wrote: "I am about 230 pages into my edition - I find this one far harder going th..."
I can't quite remember - I think there was lot of talking to kings and stewarts and being overall very glum ;)
Sorry it did not work out for you!Yeah, not everybody likes the ending. I always found it too long and the (view spoiler).
I agree the atmosphere is much more gloomy in the third book but I always found that very fitting. But I totally understand why not everybody loves LotR!
Finally finished.It's still my least favorite but it was still great.
And I always cry at the end, no matter how many times I read this book.
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