I can’t stand reading books. In the school very often i just read detailed summaries rather than books themselves. The books were very often boring/archaic. Lately I tried reading lotr in hope one of the most hyped more recent fantasy would be interesting. Instead I got a lot of useless boring trivia so I just dropped the books 100 pages in and watched the movies instead.
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>I can’t stand reading books.
Have you tried sitting, OP?
Reading a book is 50% reading the book and 50% setting an appropriate atmosphere and chilling the frick out.
If you can't commit to either in some capacity, it ain't gonna work, chief.
You are, quite simply, never gonna make it
even though LOTR is a fantasy book but still picking it up as your first book is not a good decision
its more focused on lore and environment building making the first 2 books pretty hard to read for a new reader
i suggest you to read something much lighter first and then build up you way to the trilogy
Why does everyone get obsessed with it when they're 13 then
nobody finishes them anon
half of the time everyone just ends up watching the movie or reading a summary on internet
some of my friends were very interested too but none of them finished the books and just claimed to finish them
Would the Hobbit be a better first time read?
Oh yeah. I read it when I was in high school. It's a bit more "these people go to this place and do this thing" than explaining an entire universe.
Drop this bullshit and unironically start with genre fiction
of course it is
a much lighter read, extremely comfy and is the only book which motivated me to further read up the trilogy
I did
fantasy books are amazing when you're a child. But it's not often that parents instill a love of reading in their children.
One thing i've noticed is that people that read LotR as children still love the books as adults, but people that only read them as an adult don't see what all the hype is about. They've been desensitized by life, quite sadly.
But children haven't been desensitized, which is why the best time to read any fantasy book (but especially LotR), is as child.
If you've already missed the boat on this all you can do is at the very least give your own children (if/when you have them) a chance to enjoy the book, and to set up a reading list for them that's all ready for them and which they don't have to spend years discovering for themselves.
I feel doing DXM can help you brig you to this childhood magical state. I like reading fantasy / mystical lit on afterglow of good third plateu dose
Is she back yet?
SHAME
People are conditioned to have short attention time spams these days. You represent around 90% of the population.
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>Got filtered by LOTR of all things
Books are not fun
Bazinga
Read a YA or a novelisation of a movie you've seen like Star Wars. Perhaps a short story to try things out.
>In the school very often i just read detailed summaries rather than books themselves.
There is this guy called Borges who wrote lots of detailed summaries of books he wouldn't bother writing.
I read the first ⅔ of LOTR like twice in high school and didn't understand shit, and then only afterwards when I was mature- and well-read enough at 19–20 (it took me 14 months to was as it was not my main book on the go until I got to ROTK) did I read it all the way thru. The Return of the King is hands down the greatest emotional rollercoaster I've EVER been on, and I really tore thru it. The rest is mostly setup for the last book, exposition & a ton of atmosphere, though. The end of TTT is awesome too though as well. After that I read The Hobbit and decided it was the superior work overall, and in fact I liked it so much I got a tattoo of Tolkien's drawing of Smaug the Magnificent. Kino.
Lord of the Rings is an extremely boring book in the sense that it's 90% worldbuilding and 10% story so it makes sense you would get bored by it. The Hobbit is a much better read anyway.
That being said
>I can’t stand reading books. In the school very often i just read detailed summaries rather than books themselves. The books were very often boring/archaic.
This is an unbelievably moronic opinion. Try reading Don Quixote and come back to me. That book is a literary masterpiece.
The secret of reading fantasy
>immerse yourself inside the book
>be like a ghost watching the world
>be inside the book and ignore the surrounding around you
I know, this sounds strange, but until you are able to go inside the book with your brain, you will never understand the amazingness of fantasy.
There is an easy test if you know you have reached this stage. If you have the feeling to block a punch or try to help the hero of the book while reading, you have reached the highest level of reading fantasy book.
But if you don't create a world in your head and don't feel being inside this world, either your book is not for you, or you need more training with reading books.
One last thing. I highly recommend reading books from people like Sanderson or literally any other "meme writer" of fantasy books who are considered top tier in a lot of charts.
You have to test different authors and different books to really find the love for fantasy.
I'm honest with you, TLotR is a trash book to read as a beginner. It is boring, the fantasy is very mild, and most of the book feels like Tolkien was holding back because he wasn't sure if the reader could handle too much fantasy.
TLotR is more like an advanced book for people who already read dozens if not hundreds of fantasy books and who want to see where modern fantasy started. Also, if you have a lot of fantasy books under your belt, you can appreciate the uniqueness of TLotR much more and you are able to see exactly how Tolkien more or less created a genre.
You have an IQ below 100, you should find a different hobby.
well you're in the right place
I love books. Frick you, OP.