2019 Reading: Fellowship of the Ring

#5 A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads

Despite my better judgement, I decided to give this one a try. I really don't enjoy his writing style and am not the biggest fan of fantasy to begin with, but I stuck with it. IT TOOK ME FOREVER BECAUSE I JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF IT!

Dear God, just shut up!!!! You throw out all of these names of people and places that have no context and instead of creating an epic fantasy world that I want to live in, you just confuse me more and make me want to shoot everyone with one of Legolas's arrows and then throw myself into Mount Doom because this is boring as SHIT!!!

Why am I still reading this, you may ask? Because I hate myself. And I am a completion-ist. I started it. Must finish. But I really don't want to read the other ones and I don't think I will. It's just too much. There are a million other things I would rather read and I just don't have the patience to sit through two more of these abominations of "classic literature."

I started it in May...

It is now December...

2017 Reading: The Hobbit

#7 A book that is a story within a story

I don't get it. I honestly do not get the appeal of this book. It was short and dry, with little to no descriptions... The characters were flat and/or non-existent... How did they make 3 movies out of this?!

I am not a fantasy person, I have never claimed to be. If this were the first book I picked up in the genre (as it was for most people) I would have never picked up another fantasy book again because I got nothing out of it. I like my books to pique my imagination and paint pictures of the action in my head, but this book did nothing. And then it was over.

I've also never seen the movies (see: not into fantasy) but I have seen enough to know that they had to just make shit up for most of it because there is NOTHING to work off of in this book.

Good on you if this is your thing, but I just don't get it.