Heart of the City by Steenz for January 12, 2013

Well, she tried. If Heart wants a story with a female lead, might I suggest “Heidi” or “Jane Eyre.”

Funny, I finally got my little brother to watch Fellowship of the Ring today. Managed to keep his attention for about an hour and a half

Lot of heavy reading there, Heart….you can skip Silmarillion! (I think I got to page 18.)

I remember that one year there was a Captain Underpants balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. That is what we have become.

Heart would like The hunger Games or The Long Walk by Stephen King

Complaints about the Hobbit movie have led me to the realization that The book is the fairy tale kids version; the movie is attempting to present the entire story of what was happening in Middle Earth at the time.

And they couldn’t end it like this three weeks ago WHY?!

And then the is “Bored of the Rings.”

Or not.

i guess there’s no accounting for taste

The Lord of the Rings was definitely a story for entertainment. The Silmarillion was more like a textbook about middle earth.

I read the Hobbit when I was in Junior High, back when the first paperback edition of LOTR became available in the US – yes I am that old – and I couldn’t make heads nor tails of LOTRs. Few years later I read Harvard Lampoon’s “Bored of the Rings” which was hilarious, and after reading that, I was able to go back and read LOTR, and was able to follow the story the second time through.

hahaha, totally agree. omg LOTR is the most boring set of books I’ve ever struggled through. Like the movies, though, cause movies are visual, so there’s no need to spend 10 pages telling us about every single tree we pass, what kind it is, the number of the leaves it has, the shade of leaves, the history of the tree, the other people it’s seen go by, and etc etc etc. Like who cares about every dip and rise of the ground they’re walking on. If we take out all the stupid, useless, never ending and pointless descriptions it wouldn’t be a trilogy, it’d be a single book.

Echo what Davepostmp and others said. Loved The Hobbit and Bored of the Rings, but I don’t recall if I made it through book 3 of LOTR.

Heart should take a look at the Narnia books.

[I read them as a kid, never glommed onto the pro-religious aspects, and grew up to be an atheist.]

Heart would probably like Mary Norton’s “Borrowers” novels, the adventures of young Arrietty Clock.

Me? I loved Narnia… LoTR… The Hobbit… and many others — but I think that Heart might find a better fit with Anne of Green Gables… at her age, anyway.

That is the expected outcome.