To be fair most of the books I've read and loved have been over-hyped.

Everyone sounds like a damned pirate

Don’t overlook the songs and poems either, there’s a huge amount of world building just in those.

It's so full that the party travels hundreds of miles through uncultivated, uninhabited land, that seems like it would be fine for agriculture.

I'm from the Philippines so we were required to read the two novels of one of our national heroes, Jose Rizal. In grade 9, we are required to read his first novel "Noli Me Tangere" and we were even given performance tasks where we should re-enact the events in the novel through a play. In grade 10, we are required to read Noli Me Tangere's sequel, El Filibusterismo. Now that I think of it, we also need to read the epic "Florante at Laura" in grade 7.

Fifty shades of grey series

The world isn't desolate. Its full of life and free peoples. Nor is it declining, though it is transforming. God's purpose for the Elves in the world has been accomplished and even the rebellious ones are returning to the fold. As a result now Men can take center stage and God's purpose in Creation of them can be fulfilled.

try Six of crows by Leigh Bardugo The Silent Patient by Alex Michaeldies and Almond by Won Pyung Sohn if you like psychology Les miserables by Victor Hugo and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak for the classics I liked all of them ;)

A bad reader can ruin an otherwise good story

>“The Lord of the Rings' is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out practically all references to anything like 'religion,' to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and symbolism.” ―Tolkien

God is not in one place in Lord of the Rings. God is everywhere in Lord of the Rings. The reason you can't see it is because you have no understanding of the Christian worldview generally or the Catholic worldview specifically.

Bookception

Just finished fairy tale about 10 minutes ago and it was great!

I get what you did there and I still downvoted on reflex. 🤢🤮

Abebooks is owned by Amazon now.

try New commer by Keigo Higashino

If you do ever order from Amazon... leaving a review makes a big difference

These chapters contain my favorite paragraph in all of literature:

>They followed him as he stepped lightly up the grass-clad slopes. Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool wind as fanned his face, Frodo felt that he was in a timeless land that did not fade or change or fall into forgetfulness. When he had gone and passed again into the outer world, still Frodo the wanderer from the Shire would walk there, upon the grass among elanor and niphredil in fair Lothlorien.

People erroneously compare The Silmarillion to the Bible. The Silmarillion is nowhere near as complex or dense as the Bible is, nor is it anywhere near as long. The Silmarillion is much more like a collection of Greek myths. All the stories in it are short, easily read, and while they interrelate you don't really have to remember very much or anything at all about the other stories because each story works on its own.

Unfortunate Fairy Tale series by Chanda Hahn

> Fog on the Barrow-Downs is my favorite chapter. Legit horror elements there.

Its The Navidson Record before House of Leaves was written.

try six of crows

My wife and I still laugh about his "bri-een" pronunciation years later. We finished the audiobook but phew, that was pretty bad

The Atlas Six (Olivie Blake)

The Storyteller (Dave Grohl)

I don't listen to a lot of Audio books. But The Green Mile by Stephen King is by far one of my favorites.

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