Quote Originally Posted by highlanddave
i have begun my annual "lord of the rings" reading. i have read through all 3 books annually since 1974 when i did it the first time. i still love the books.

Frodo lives!
Word.

I agree with Lemur about Sharpe books too, they got rather formulaic and contrived in the end...

I'm reading Mountains of the Mind, by Robert MacFarlane, a look at humanity's perception of mountains and why people climb them, in my continuing literary quest to find out why these nutters strap on crampons and risk their fingers, toes, reputations and lives messing around at 26,000 feet+ above sea level...