[Happy Monkey]

I tried to read the Silmarilion in elementary school, and couldn't do it. In college, I tried again, and loved it. Unfortunately, the least interesting stuff is at the beginning.

His children's stories are very good, too - Mr Bliss and the Father Christmas Letters were staples of my childhood, and when Roverrandom came out recently, it was very fun to read. Farmer Giles of Ham is funny. I made an abortive attempt to make a Zork-like adventue game out of it when in junior high school.

Now, the massive series of organized notes that his son is putting out is for extreme fans only. I've only read one of those.


As for Dune, I read the first two and gave up on the third in elementary school, and have never gone back to see how I feel about them now.