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If audiobooks count, Dark Tower Volume 7 and The Fellowship of the Ring. Fellowship is amazing in that it takes them FOREVER to get to Bree! Tom Bombadil is a bit like the LOTR version of Chuck Norris so that's always fun. The songs are good at first but some of them go on far too long. If it was a book I'd just skip over it but with an audiobook it can be a pain to fast forward past those parts. Overall though it's fantastic. Some scenes play out completely differently.
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I read the LOTR trilogy for the first time in grade 8 I believe, and while I did find the first half of book one painfully snail-paced I enjoyed the fact that it was very much reminiscent of the Hobbit. I guess Peter Jackson did not see the forest/barrow down sections as "epic" enough for the films but I really wish the movie trilogy retained them to incorporate a transition between a fairy tale-like atmosphere and the heroic fantasy of the majority of the story (as well as avoiding a plot hole)
In any case I'm in the process of reading through the James Bond [i]novels] and I guess you can wish me luck since I'm stranded in the middle of the Gardners.