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The Fellowship of the Ring
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Kira
This is pretty fantastic! LOTR is completely new to me and I've thoroughly enjoyed myself so far.
I specifically read this along with a fan-made audiobook @ https://tokybook.com/lord-rings-audio... which is the best audiobook I've EVER listened to and I REALLY recommend it to anyone that wants to read this series.
The characters were fantastic. Yes they walk a lot and there's a boring deliberation chapter (approx 40 pages) in the middle but apart from that, it's a 5/5 experience.
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Kathryn
Jan 03, 2012 rated it really liked it
I bought these books when I was a kid and the LOTR movies were coming out in theaters. However, I never had the attention span to really read them. Recently, I read The Hobbit and didn't find it difficult to read, so I decided to try reading The Fellowship of the Ring.

Now, I know this is blasphemous but I think the pacing of the movie is way better than the pacing of the book. There didn't seem to be the intensity and seat-gripping anticipation and fear in the book as there was in the film.

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Pickle
This was only my second time read this, after many many times viewing it.

The book is far superior in every, though jackson delivered a great movie, and i loved all the things i forgot due to the movie.

4/5
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