Lewis Carroll, LOTR

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Catherine Keegan <keegan at m...> wrote:
> At 03:18 PM 12/18/01 +0100, the glorious goat wrote:
> >[Have you all also ever ruined your enjoyment of a good book by 
reading it
> >according to the rules of the wrong genre?
> 
> I no longer try to read books as anything other than 
> stories.  Try it on non fiction and see if the author can actually 
write!

The classic example of this (to me) is "Small Wonder; The Amazing 
Story of the Volkswagen". A book about a car factory. *Plenty* of 
room for dry-as-dustness, even with WW2 as a backdrop, and of course 
you know the ending, but a fascinating read with some laugh-out-loud 
moments (care to get some French Army officers blotto and careen 
around the factory in an amphibious bug, anyone?)
> 
>
>
>.  I had already read a ton of derivative fiction and 
> liked the other stuff much better.

Me, too. I guess it's not easy being first.

>  I am now married to a complete LotR fan 
> who is amazing me every day by reciting huge bits of it. 

Did you (or he) see wossname (Frodo) on The Daily Show last night? He 
said hardcore LOTR fans "....make Trekkies look like dilettantes."


Joke;
Did you hear of the last-minute change in the new LOTR movie? Even 
the trailer shows Gandalf arriving at Bag End in a pony-and-trap, but 
in the final movie all vehicles will be Chrysler products.


-Noel
65% HP obsessed.
2.3% LOTR obsessed.
98.6% car obsessed. 
Sounds normal to me.