Sunday, March 1, 2009

:Sad:  This book has been recently edited by the son of J.R. Tolkien. It was an opus that had never been published before.

There was perhaps a reason why Tolkien father did not publish it. I really was never thrilled by the book. The plot is too simple. The story was never exalting. We are far from the Lord of The Rings. Perhaps the French translation was poor. But, it would not explain all.

One of my indicator is if I would be pleased to read again the book in the future. I read “Lord of The Rings” four times. I will not read again this book.

Did you read it? Did you like it?

Like many technical engineers of my generation, I am fond of science fiction literature. Here science fiction is in the very broad meaning, i.e. it encompasses also fantasy or heroic fantasy. Engineers have some affinity with this genre. Perhaps, it is a need of some bits of irrationality in our (hopefully) rational mind.

I read my load of this stuff. Thus, I decided to add a new category which is far more personal. I will describe the books I loved or hated once I read them.

In order now to disturb the readers who are solely interested on my security oriented thoughts, I will prefix the title of corresponding entries with SF. SF is the French abbreviation for SciFi. Thus, these readers will be able to skip these non security related entries.

For the SciFi fans, do not hesitate to comment my reviews and suggest other books.