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Good book.
Movies are okay, but they are short, and do not make as good a use of your imagination as a movie does. Books allow more for your own interpretation of things.

Case in point would be The Lord Of The Rings (good movies, but much better books) and The Chronicles of Narnia (again, good movie, but much better books - we are reading the whole series as a family reading activity).
 

And The Province has become an expert in all things literary...when?...

Whether or not YOU personally enjoyed reading TLOTR by Tolkien, millions of readers have declared it a literary masterpiece, one never ever topped by anyone. TLOTR is the best selling book ever, the only thing to have outsold the Bible.
And your knowledge of the reasons that it was published are extremely faulty and fragmented.
Be that as it may, you are entitled to your opinion. For you, that is what should matter - how you feel about it. Ultimately, that is how we decide, or should decide, whether a book or movie is something that we enjoy or find to be good or not.
I find that, with movies, it is all about mass-marketing and oversaturation, the media plays way too big of a role in how a movie is viewed.
And that is my opinion.
 

From everything I can find on the subject, it would seem that The Lord Of The Rings has outseold every book EXCEPT for the Bible *maybe that's what you meant to say, Al). Regardless, I got about 1/3 the way through the first book when I was a teenager, but have watched all the movies. I could probably slog through them now, but you were always more of a reader than I was.

Steve.... Sphere?? The movie with Sharon Stone and Dustin Hoffman? Two words for ya: YU-UCK! Beth and I saw that in the theatre and almost fell asleep. Boring, incoherent, boring, boring, and incoherent (maybe I'm a dummy). I should hope the book is better. Memento was great, but Sphere was 2+ hours I'll never get back.

:-)
 

cape?
man, capes are so last year!
 

...somebody has been watching too many episodes of "Queer Eye"...
lol
 

looks like mean al is also mis-informed al.. nothing will ever top the sales of the bible. I don't know about you, but i don't own 13 copies of the Lord of the Rings. Though, I also don't go to Star Trek conventions dressed as Counsellor Troy
 

i'm impressed! we managed to degrade this into a ST:TNG-bashing post!
wow.
 

for those who are interested,
i stand corrected.
in checking the facts, the Lord Of The Rings by J R R Tolkien has sold over 100 million copies worldwide.
That puts it in third place, slightly ahead of The American Spelling Book, quite a ways behind Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung at 900 million, and a heap of a long way below the Bible, at 6 billion copies sold worldwide.

Again, i stand corrected.
I SHOULD have said, The Lord Of The Rings is the best-selling FICTION book ever sold.
And, in that category, nothing is ever likely to touch it. Ever.