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Or don't waste your money on what looks like utter drivel. Any one whose opening sentence includes the word "deplaned" deserves everything they get.
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Well, I suppose you have a choice whether or not you buy the book or ...well, unless Christopher gets his way, & then you won't have any choice at all.
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But I am a bit chary of this sort of fictionalising a real person - especially one whose life is in living memory still.
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There have been a number of novels which use Tolkien as a character - the Imaginarium Geographica series
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Dragons-...8320806&sr=1-1, the recent 'Looking for the King
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Dragons-...8320806&sr=1-1 & a graphic novel which has Tolkien, Lewis & Charles Williams as the central characters
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heavens-War-...321170&sr=8-12 among others.
And far be it from me to accuse Christopher Tolkien of hypocrisy in this matter, but in his discussion of the Notion Club Papers (HoM-e vol 9) he quite openly admits that his father based the members of the Notion Club on the Inklings (all of whom were alive at the time the work was written, btw) & is quite admiring of the way it is all done...
(EDIT) I see that the Estate are requesting the 'destruction of all copies of the book' - perhaps a big bonfire, which CT could be asked to ceremonially ignite himself. ...I wonder how he would respond to a request from surviving relatives of the Inklings members his father used as characters were to request that all copies of Sauron Defeated were destroyed?