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Bambi Boland bambiboland — Halfway through. Incredible!

Rou Gu 864605321593b — I'm finding this book really hard to describe with my bookshelf tags. There's a murderer on the loose making me want to call this a thriller, but Bod's life in the cemetery seems relatively safe so far despite his everyday encounters with ghosts, vampires and werewolves. I guess the only thing you need to know is that right off the bat this book is imaginative and interesting. If a book is good, it doesn't really matter how you categorize it . . . *** I definitely recommend reading this one. Very imaginative, interesting, all around good. I also like how the ending is left wide open. Some of the books I enjoy most leave more to the imagination of the reader rather than neatly tying up every aspect of the characters' lives. ***

Mikey Correia porkchop131e20 — I had a very strange feeling reading this book, some sense of nostalgia, that I'd never experienced before. I don't know if it was because I'd seen the movies several times before reading the books (but I've done that before), or maybe the fact I knew I was reading something that has basically shaped the fantasy genre since its publication. At the same time I never felt bogged with cliches, because he made all those (now) cliches work. Now I can only shake my head in pity at anyone who tries to emulate elves or dwarves the way he did. I mean this basically in a copycat manner, like those Dragonlance books or Eragon or in video games (even some I love, like Dragon Age). There is just no way to beat Tolkien at his own game. Toward the end of this particular book, I actually began to feel a little emotional. When I finished the book, then started to read some of the Appendices, it dawned on me how much Tolkien must have loved Middle Earth. You just don't spend that much time and energy developing something so deep and so concrete without absolutely loving it. People can say what they want about his writing style (it bored me sometimes, I'll admit it), but no one can criticize his worldbuilding. Cultures, clothing, names, songs, poems, traditions, symbols, weapons, languages, holidays, politics, stories, legends, history--I used to be impressed with George R. R. Martin's world, but he's solidly in second place now. I don't think anyone can conquer Tolkien in that regard. I feel like, if he were still alive, you could ask him the minutest question about Middle Earth and he could answer it like it was a scientific fact. Or maybe his love of Middle Earth is just rubbing off on me.