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Re: what's the fastest time you've ever read LOTR
Of course you are correct that reading @500pp. a day is not the same as stopping to smell the roses of Imloth Melui. But it need not be mere skimming either. I've read the thing so many times that I could concisely summarize the plot -- chapter by chapter -- without reference. And I surely don't meant it as a boast for there must be countless more productive things that a person could have done with their youth, rather than compulsively rereading three books.
Even three really good books.
But LotR reads a good deal faster now than it did the first several times. I only stop now to linger lovingly on particularly favored passages. When I was very young, I always wanted the Frodo-Sam-Gollum passages to just get by so I could return to the "exciting stuff." Now I find those relationships among my favorte parts of the book. Gracious Gamegie, wait until the second day to tell us we don't take the book seriously, just for form's sake.<img src=wink.gif ALT="
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