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It's one of the few books I rank higher than LotR.

Blasphemy! I'm not listening:

Seriously, if anybody else said that I wouldn't take it seriously, but given you're a fellow LotR fanatic there must be something to it. I will have to read that. Can you describe what it's about in a nutshell without giving away the plot?

My degree will be in Computer Science (supposedly with a side of mathematics but I'm having some trouble with that bit) and I will be continuing in CS at the graduate level. I cannot wait. So many of my college classes have been boring, though I always try to get everything I can out of it. Like, if a professor uses a book to make a point, I'll try to find and read the book.

Doomsday Book is about a historian who travels back through time to the Middle Ages - 1300s - to conduct research on what life was like then. Also there's a subplot set in the future, with her support team dealing with problems there. Unlike a lot of time travel books, it's not really about the travel, it's about the period where she is. The characters are so real, it feels like you've been there.