![]() ![]() ![]() I’ll crack open his books every five or ten years and slip back into Middle Earth like a warm, familiar bath. My enjoyment of Tolkien never faded over the years, however. That was followed by a thirst for the great authors: Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Nabokov, and so on. ![]() Then came a historical fiction phase-James Clavell’s masterpieces ( Shogun, Tai Pan, and Noble House), Ken Follet’s Pillars of the Earth, Colleen McCullough's The Masters of Rome series, and even some Gary Jennings. I began devouring books, starting with more Tolkien, and then moving to other fantasies written by Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, and Frank Herbert. Tolkien’s book The Fellowship of the Ring, and the book awakened my mind and imagination in ways I didn’t fully understand at the time. For many years as a child I didn’t like to read much, but that changed when I was about 11. ![]()
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