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Title: I was let down.
Review: Ladies and gentlemen, there seems to be a confusion regarding which edition we are evaluating. The book advertised is a paperback, and you are talking about the rich leather binding -- on a paperback?As to the content, the only reason I read it is that everyone I knew had read LOTR. I was curious, and ordered the book, only to see that in order to understand the book (I like to read first things first) you had to read The Hobbit. In my opinion this is like a fairy tale, and I think adults are too old for fairy tales. I care much more for realist literature, or books that write about someone strange, like The Stranger, by Camus; or Sartre's Les Mots. Also, LOTR is too long. Even Anna Karenina (and that is great literature) is shorter. The only reason I read LOTR is that I'd heard about Bored of the Rings, and wanted to read it.
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