After a day and a half of straight reading (thanks to some sort of illness I've no doubt picked up from school) I have finally finished The Two Towers! It ended on an interesting note, but unfortunately the next book starts with 140 pages of Pippin, Merry, and Gandalf, which means approximately another month until I get to read about Sam and Frodo again. While I liked the organization in the second book because it helped me keep the adventures of different characters straight, I wish it would be a little more interspersed in the third so that I wouldn't be so reluctant to start it.
Overall, though, I did enjoy thish book, and though I got a little lost in the battle scenes involving the Legolas/Gimli/Aragorn trio, I though the book was overall pretty enjoyable. Most of it made sense, probably because I watched the movie before starting to refresh my memory. I'll probably do that again be starting the third book.
My plan is to finish the series this summer, knocking #3 off my list for good! However, I'm not quite ready to commit to that just yet. My plan now is to finish The Wind in the Willows and then take a break from the list with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Upon finishing that, my choices are
*1984
*Midnight's Children
*Middlemarch
*The Secret Garden
*Sherlock Holmes
*War and Peace (although I'm trying to save that one for last!)
We'll see what happens when I get there, I guess, but ciao for now and I'll probably be back momentarily with a recap of Wind in the Willows.
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