Message from @jerpeau

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2020-08-10 17:42:39 UTC  

Thats sweet

2020-08-10 17:43:46 UTC  

Books are always better than the movies because you can cram as much as you like in a book, but you have to cut a movie down to almost nothing.

2020-08-10 17:44:28 UTC  

LOTR was a decent effort

2020-08-10 17:44:51 UTC  

Unless it's a sequel, you have to set up your premise, hook people's interest, tell your story, and give a satisfactory conclusion in two hours or less.

2020-08-10 17:45:11 UTC  

In a book, you can take a hundred pages to describe cheese.

2020-08-10 17:45:40 UTC  

I enjoyed the LOTR movies, but they still had to axe and change things to fit.

2020-08-10 17:45:47 UTC  

LOTR was written by a Christian, so every neckbearded fedora-wearer is required by law to hate it.

2020-08-10 17:46:35 UTC  

LOL The Hobbit was one of the first books I ever read as a kid.

2020-08-10 17:46:45 UTC  

The Hobbit one was poor though

2020-08-10 17:46:56 UTC  

Good but nothing on LOTR

2020-08-10 17:47:57 UTC  

Sorry, though you meant the book.

2020-08-10 17:48:54 UTC  

Nah the book itself stands great on its own

2020-08-10 17:50:00 UTC  

I don't think anyone will ever top Tolkien.

2020-08-10 17:50:22 UTC  

What made it so successful

2020-08-10 17:50:28 UTC  

was that he created entire cultures

2020-08-10 17:50:40 UTC  

and even languages, that is a mark of a great writer

2020-08-10 17:50:55 UTC  

Yep. He practically lived in Middle-earth.

2020-08-10 17:51:16 UTC  

Yea it is not fictional

2020-08-10 17:51:24 UTC  

Tolkien was really a documentary writer haha

2020-08-10 17:52:14 UTC  

LOL That too. But I meant in his mind. I'm fairly certain that you could have walked up to him with a question about Gandalf and he'd just have the answer.

2020-08-10 17:54:15 UTC  

Oooh! Books are here too?!? Add beer and this would be jerps new home 😂

2020-08-10 17:54:42 UTC  

Books need a separate channel

2020-08-10 17:55:12 UTC  

I suggested it, and they folded them together. Better all than none.

2020-08-10 17:55:48 UTC  

Its entertainment based. I agree with the addition

2020-08-10 17:56:16 UTC  

Educational books?

2020-08-10 17:56:32 UTC  

I can share some good law school books!

2020-08-10 17:56:39 UTC  

Boo!

2020-08-10 17:56:56 UTC  

Archibold series @Froski

2020-08-10 17:57:06 UTC  

I scored the complete hardcover Popular Mechanics DIY encyclopedia Saturday.

2020-08-10 17:57:14 UTC  

A British law publisher if you know them

2020-08-10 17:57:33 UTC  

I'm American. So no.

2020-08-10 17:58:00 UTC  

That is how Lincoln began his jounrey

2020-08-10 17:58:13 UTC  

started off by buying some law books from a sale in a attic

2020-08-10 17:58:34 UTC  

My prize possession, reference-wise, is a WWII manual on battlefield facial reconstructive surgery.

2020-08-10 17:59:37 UTC  

You guys got an interesting library

2020-08-10 18:00:04 UTC  

Any of you fans of the Heritage Press?

2020-08-10 18:00:12 UTC  

Beautifully made books

2020-08-10 18:00:26 UTC  

I moved a lot as a kid. My books were usually the first casualty each time.

2020-08-10 18:03:11 UTC  

Okay, funny timing...

2020-08-10 18:03:35 UTC  

I just got a call from a local library, because they're selling a bunch of sci-fi books.

2020-08-10 18:03:47 UTC  

Be back later; I'sa goin' bookin'!