[Aquinasfan]

Lord of the Rings is probably a better bet.

[OWK]

BOO!

[bookwurm]

EXCELLENT. Thanks for educating those not in the know! Definite BUMP.

[tuesday afternoon]

I read the first two books in the series. THE SEcond was much darker than the first. One of the things I found most objectionable was the mandrakes. They are introduced as babies planted in dirt. When they get past adolescence they are to be cut up into little pieces to break the petrification spell.

At the bookstore I saw a bunch of magic, ritual and wiccs books in a display aimed at teenagers. I opened one book at random, and read that prior practitioners used human fat in the making of ritual candles.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

O'Brien's "A Landscape With Dragons" is superb. After reading O'Brien's "Plague Journal" I decided to take a cue from the lead character and read Tolkien to my kids. We got the TV out of our house 5 years ago, so my little ones love to read and be read to. I finished reading them "The Hobbit" 2 weeks ago, and we bought a one volume copy of the entire "Lord of the Rings" trilogy last week. We're 140 pages into that now, over nine hundred to go still. Usually my oldest, my 9 year old son, is the only one of the three that listens much to it. The 7 year old daughter and 5 year old son aren't as interested yet. But it is wonderful time together none the less, and I haven't read Tolkien since I was a teen. I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

Obviously, mine will not be reading Harry Plotter or watching the movie.

Thanks for posting this.