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Hobbits good point seen the film yet ?, from what I heard it's going to be a triolgy (?), but it's the thinest book Tolkien produced....
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glennPattonWork wrote: seen the film yet
Yes.
How would I sum it up? Avoid it at all costs. It's so slow that nothing happens for an hour, and then the pace slows down.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Avoid it at all costs.
Are you referring to this[^] movie?
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That would be the mud puppy.
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Remember that scene in the Hobbit book where the mountain sized men made of rock were fighting for some unexplained reason and throwing skyscraper sized boulders at each other? Me either, but luckily it's in the new movie. 
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They actually talk about them in the book but they extended it for the movie.
There they were sheltering under a hanging rock for the night, and he lay beneath a blanket and shook from head to toe. When he peeped out in the lightning-flashes, he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out and were hurling rocks at one another for a. game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed among the trees far below, or splintered into little bits with a bang. [...] They could hear the giants guffawing and shouting all over the mountainsides. [...] "This won't do at all!" said Thorin. "If we don't get blown off or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football." [...] As they passed under the arch, it was good to hear the wind and the rain outside instead of all about them, and to feel safe from the giants and their rocks. The Hobbit, Chapter Four, Over Hill and Under Hill
Brett A. Whittington
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Huh, that's interesting. I was discussing this with a few friends. All of use had read the Hobbit and none of us remembered anything about the rock giants being in there.
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Yes. And I have to agree with P.O'H. I had to take my 12yr old son to see it (in 3D for the second time). I awoke about 45 minutes in to the sound of my own snoring.
Unless you're a Tolkien nut then don't bother.
Incidentally, I went to the same high school as Mr. Jackson. He was in my sisters class. And he's a Tolkien nut from back then (mid 70's).
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I've really enjoyed the series. Book 11 was hard going. Every character you wanted to hear about was hardly mentioned. The rest were trying to find new way to make everything take forever. I thought 12 and 13 were excellent.
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thrakazog wrote: I thought 12 and 13 were excellent
When Jordan was dead you mean.
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Well, that's one way to look at it... But I think it was more that we started to wrap up the loose ends and that involved a lot of action.
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Like the big spoiler from Aviendha going back to Rhuidean?
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That was interesting. But all the future visions bear the asterisk of we need there to be a future. If the dark one breaks the wheel all bets are off.
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It's more the glimpse of what it means for Rand.
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I'll have to agree. I made it through four books and then got tired of waiting. Now I'm doing the same thing with George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books.
I'm a glutton for punishment.
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Caydence wrote: George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books
I'm in that boat too. But I don't find the Song of Ice and Fire books to be nearly as interesting so the waiting isn't difficult. At the end of each of those books I kept thinking the story was getting worse and didn't care if I read another. Then a new one would come out and I'd eventually give it another go.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: unfortunately, Jordan dragged it on and on and on, far past the point where he
should have wrapped it all off.
Since he died before the last two books one might suppose that there must be some truth in that statement.
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I have always stayed clear of starting Wheel of Time, I have learnt a lesson don't read on the way to work as you will miss your destination. I once got engrossed missed my Stop and ended up in Didcott (I was supposed to get out at Bristol!)
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I read the first 9 or 10 books. On the last one I realized I'd just read a 1000+ page book and absolutely NOTHING happened. I decided to give up. Then the author died before it was complete.
So who wrote the last one(s)?
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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He looks like a weasel...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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That's a bit unkind
to weasels.
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Yes and it's incredibly frustrating that it's not yet available for nook. I've got the first 13 on my nook and am not going to buy the last one in dead-tree format.
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That is an odd choice they made. They are doing the same for the Kindle. And that's after they already released the prologue for 14 to the Kindle months back.
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