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Title: fine
Review: Despite all the hype and hoopla, the fanatical adoration, and silliness attached to it, this book is (or these books are--however you care to look at it or them) pretty good. The incessant questing is tedious, the hero-making gratuitous, and the monsters annoying, but I liked hiking about on foot in the open. I liked the absence of automobiles, trains, planes, and busses. I liked immersing myself in this other world for a considerable stretch of time.The author is very accomplished at manipulating the English language: he's got chops; but this is hardly a literary masterpiece. Enjoy it for what it is.
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