I first read The Lord of the Rings the summer before the movies came out. Everybody was saying that LOTR was better than Harry Potter, and I started getting quite irritated, thinking: Those people don't know what they're talking about- nothing can be better than Harry Potter. On second thought, though, I decided that maybe I'd better see what all the fuss was about. I picked up The Hobbit, and was immediately hooked. I finished Lord of the Rings in a week.
Now, I still don't think that Lord of the Rings is better than Harry Potter. They're both very different books, and excellent in their own rights.
Phew. I'm done now.
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Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
-Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card.
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