[HairOfTheDog]

LOTR---Nordic/Celtic fairy tales and myths recycled in a very entertaining manner.

[snore] OK fine... Build yourself a very narrow shelf and you only need one book. Perhaps the name of your thread should have been... "PJ-Comix Tells you why "From Here to Eternity" is better than your favorite novel..."

[Illbay]

I just think you should know that your reply was not really in the same class with "From Here To Eternity."

[PJ-Comix]

I'm not saying LOTR is bad. It's actually quite enjoyable but I really can't relate to Hobbits and Wizards in Middle Earth. To me it is a fairy tale (in a good sense). However, there is a lot that seems EXTREMELY REAL to me in From Here To Eternity. The characters were the type of people that all of us have known. BTW, Jones' observations about hookers were right on the mark. He didn't glamorize them like happens in a lot of novels and movies but he did humanize some of them. I've also talked to old timers who lived in Hawaii just prior to Pearl Harbor attack and they told me that Jone's observations about pre-war Hawaii was exactly on the mark.