Posted on 11/08/2014 1:51:50 PM PST by millegan
I get enough fiction on these threads, don`t have to buy any.
Tolkien was a very serious Catholic, and he explicitly wrote The Lord of the Rings as a Catholic allegory. He was instrumental in converting his friend Clive Staples Lewis to Christianity.
I read most of his books in the 80’s. They were well-paced and suspenseful. He writes cinematically, but they made awful movies of them. There is a lot of violence and terrible goings on. ( Sorry about my inarticulateness. ) I can’t read him anymore. I do like he had dogs in his stories, but he really is obsessed with desecrating the human body. He is very prolific. I heard he has agoraphobia. They did also have happy endings. But I there was many a night sleep came very hard to me sleeping in cabins.
I can’t remember the name of the Koontz novel I read. I do remember the name of the one I listened to on CD, however: http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Novel-Dean-Koontz/dp/0553593501/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&qid=1415510812&sr=8-24&keywords=dean+koontz That book had the most suspenseful beginning of any book I have ever read. Koontz is an expert at suspense - no doubt about it!
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