Books finished during July's radio silence

Oh here's another thing I didn't blog about during the Great Radio Silence of July 2011.

I FINALLY finished listening to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy!!!!!! I borrowed the CDs off Luc years and years ago. I struggled to listen to it in Sydney - I know I was listening when I first met Stu, because I remember on occasion talking to Stu at night, then putting it on to listen to before I went to sleep. Of course I'd struggle to stay awake listening to it. I tried listening to it in the car on a long drive one time - very dangerous thing to do as it's so boring I nearly fell asleep at the wheel. Last year when I started catching a different bus and walking twenty minutes home, I finally was able to get through it.

So yeah. Most boring thing, just about *ever*. Maybe it was because I was listening and not reading, but I just couldn't get interested in the story or the characters. I think Frodo and Sam's story was the only one that was even vaguely interesting to me. Half the other characters I couldn't even remember who was who most of the time.

Yeah.

The other series I finished was the Mallorean by David Eddings. Now *that* is a series that holds my interest! Have read the Belgariad and Mallorean through twice now. All these years I've called it the MAL-or-EE-an, probably because that's how Sami said it when he introduced it to me. But in July when we were in Queensland Chay called it the Mal-OR-ean, which sounded completely bizarre to me. David and Stu also thought it should be Mal-OR-ean. I wonder how David Eddings pronounced it :)