How do you get hooked to a book?

[Tinuviel of Denton]

I could pick 100 books out of the library and find some sort of link between them and Lotr.

Forget 100. Try about 10000.

I don't think I mentioned this in my other post, but another thing that pulls me into a book is characters. I mean, really. Who wants to read a book about a character who has no flaws whatsoever? Those kinds of people are, frankly, boring. And annoying, because you'd expect them to be perfect if they're of a 'perfect' race, like the Elves, but if they're human, then let them be human.

I'm probably going to be mobbed for this but I'm going to pick on Charles Dickens. Don't get me wrong, I like him and all, but...in "A Tale of Two Cities" Lucie and Charles are some of the most annoying people I have ever had the misfortune to read about. Lucie is the perfect wife and mother, Charles is of all the crimes ever committed by his family or anyone else for that matter. I'm sorry, but the villains are ever so much more interesting. (This is one of my favorite books, I love the story itself, but some of the characters are like eating a bunch of chocolate after a birthday party!)