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[Failivrin]

what really irritated me was that everyone referred to LOTR as a book for geeky teenage boys. it is an assumption i just cannot cope with. LOTR is NOT a book solely for geeky teenage boys. I am not a teenage boy, yet i enjoyed it hugely. i would be willing to bet that the majority of memebers on this site are not geeky teenage boys. why is this assumption still held? do people honestly think that women will not like a story if there are no huge female parts in it? do they really think that we weon't have anyone to associate with or something?

i would not really call LOTR a boy's own story. boy's own implies a ripping yarn about a bunch of boys who go off on an adventure, convert some people to christianity and all come back having had a jolly good time.

i dislike lord of the flies but i hear the film is hilarious. i think the others that i can remember that were enjoyable were The Hobbit, possibly HP Azkaban (the best in the series by far), Alice in Wonderland and Gone With the Wind