Holy crap I read the whole thing. It took me two weeks, but with all the snow days recently and the kids home I had nothing else to do but read.
I was skeptical to start off with, but I felt I had to read it just out of pure curiosity and just because I had to get it under my belt of classics that need to be read.
At times it was a bit much with so many names and people and mountains flying by right in the middle of a good story, but besides that, obviously it was rivetting. It would have to be or they wouldn't have been printing the thing for the last 50 years and spent millions of dollars in making the movies
I liked it so much I would even put it on a list of books I need to read again in my lifetime.
I remember guys in highschool talking about Gandalf and acting out scenes from the book (Yes I went to a highschool for gifted students. All the guys were nerds.... cute, but nerds none the less.) I finally understand why they were doing that. I understand jokes on TV now making fun of Frodo or Smeagol. It's like a whole new world has opened up to me.
I don't think I'll start reading fantasy as a genre, but if this is the book that started it all then I can see why it's such a thriving genre.
