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The Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien

Overall rating for the trilogy: 77%

The sum is greater than the parts. Obsessive yet engaging. Godless yet biblical. Innocent yet homoerotic. Politically complex yet basically simple. Intensely imagined yet, at times, amazingly trite. No wonder it has influenced so many books and films since.

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I like to read books. Mainly novels, but you might catch me with non-fiction once in a while. I read so many books that I forget which ones I've enjoyed so, since 2001, I’ve written short reviews of all the books I’ve read, and given each one a grade. This website will eventually contain all those reviews.

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The book’s title
The author
The grade
The date I finished reading it
A summary of my thoughts about the book after I’d read it.

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The Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien