Did you ever play the video game? You might have been too young. This whole thing is weird.

Oh duh I see the original skeet now.

What does it mean?

… maybe 350k words, the whole story, without the appendices? I’m not sure, but it’s not nearly as much, word count wise, as I would have thought, compared to modern classics.

I still love them, but I get what you’re saying. The actual story, the true narrative, is so much deeper and filled with lore and linguistics and a deep deep love for this entire world he made up. The books really are incredible. About your point about the pacing is a very good one. It’s like…

Yeah I mean I haven’t read it by sight in maybe a decade, but I do vaguely recall not noticing the split as much back in the day. Probably got biased about it because of the way Jackson handled it in the films.

The Andy Serkis read audiobooks go by very fast. The only critique I really have remaining is that I still don’t like the way Tolkien splits the plot in half in The Two Towers.

5 authors I've read 5+ books by

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Joe Abercrombie
George R.R. Martin

Leaving there on a Sunday morning and driving north into New York on the backroads was quite an experience.

Dang that looks good.

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Yes all the time. In fact, I was particularly given the courage to do something in a manuscript I would have never thought possible after reading PLEASE IGNORE VERA DIETZ by A.S. King in, I don't know, 2010 or so.

Because of all the monsters that live beneath the waves!