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Welcome to BAR, Smila. I'm glad to see that you fit in straight away. Keep up those fantastic posts :)

Welcome to BAR, Scout :D

Welcome to BAR, Jody :) Do you have a favourite book/author?

No, not at all (unlike a certain big-headed, elitist mod :p).

Fair enough - I can understand where you are coming from. What annoyed me a bit is that you insinuated that people who came in to post books that were entirely appropriate given the first post in this thread were now unwelcome in here. I don't see the harm in letting some discuss LOTR and others...

The story that follows is one that I never intended to commit to paper. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Why does hard have to be interpreted in just one way? There are numerous people in this thread who have viewed the word 'hard' in both ways you mentioned, so surely there should be enough responses that cater to your view of the purpose of the thread. There's no need to get upset because some...

Well seeing as how the founder of the thread mentions LOTR as the book that they found hard to get through, I'm thinking that hard can be interpreted in any way you please.

I've just finished the book, and I have to say that I enjoyed it more than Eragon. I think that I found his training and time with the elves to be more enjoyable than the last book, as I find that kind of stuff more interesting than the actual fighting (which I was glad to see there was not much...

Could it be Anne of Green Gables?

Perhaps LOTR can't be placed on the same literary page as novels by Joyce, but that doesn't mean that people can't find it hard to get through.

I have my TBR list on a little spiral notebook so that I can take it to the shops and library with me. That being said, I haven't been to the library or bought any books for myself in the longest time, as I want to finish the books that I have bought but not read yet (only 14 to go :D ). After...

I'm up to book 60 so far, and I should finish a few more by the end of the month. I'm not sure how this compares to other years, as this is the first year that I have kept track of the amount that I have read. I'm sure that it's a lot more than usual, though.

Most people I've talked to really enjoyed Never Let Me Go (it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, I believe), but like Ions, I wasn't overly taken by it. I'd still recommend you read it, though. As Ions said, A Clockwork Orange is a classic, and as such, a must-read. Having a Nadsat dictionary...

George Bush. I would try my hardest to leave a permanant outline of my hand. Do you believe in miracles?

It's for my sister for Christmas - I have already read it, and the copy I had had a nadsat dictionary in the back. My sister can just struggle through it herself :p

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Ender's Game is one book that comes to mind.

I found The Lord of the Rings difficult to start - it took me about 3 attempts to read past the Tom Bombadil part - but I loved it after that.

Thanks for your input :) I wasn't sure if I should finish off the series after reading Magician but I think that I will pick up the rest now. What do you think of it? I think that his writing has matured a lot since Eragon, but I am still picking up flaws in his style. I find that he tends to...