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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020

      Also, the Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe is (like the first Harry Potter & the Hobbit) more obviously a kids' book than the rest of the series. Voyage of the Dawn Treader is easily the best of the Narnia series.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020

      Confession: I didn't much like the Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe as a kid, never read the series until I tried with my son, gave up halfway thru Horse & His Boy. Only with my youngest did I get all the way through the series to appreciate the later books.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020

      The Hobbit, by contrast, was the first 'real' book I read, a a second-grader. Tolkien's world engrossed me throughout my youth.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020

      The two other big fantasy series I've read were Terry Brooks' Shannara series, which I read in my early teens and can no longer even remember at all, & Christopher Paolini's Eragon series, which I read aloud -- it was fun & had some great moments but was very derivative.

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    5. David French‏Verified account @DavidAFrench 26 Apr 2020
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      Shannara is still solid!

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @DavidAFrench

      Maybe someday I will go back. Liked them at the time, but then, I liked Battlefield Earth when I was 13.

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    7. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @DavidAFrench

      I read Shannara in graduate school. Don't judge me.

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @DavidAFrench

      I read Atlas Shrugged when I was 28.

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    9. Marco Paradiso‏ @ParadisoReale 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom @DavidAFrench

      Shannara does not hold up.

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    10. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @ParadisoReale @baseballcrank @DavidAFrench

      I wonder if the Donaldson books hold up. Was surprised to see them all translated in Russian some years ago in a store in Moscow.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @ParadisoReale @DavidAFrench

      Having put down the first one as a teen early on, I read them in 2016, and lemme tellya, they held up very, very well in the climate of 2016.

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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 26 Apr 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @ParadisoReale @DavidAFrench

          Every time Pence says "heal our Land" I keep looking for a green stone

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 26 Apr 2020
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @ParadisoReale @DavidAFrench

          I've thought about the Sunbane a lot the past month.

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        1. Tom Ault‏ @tomgault 26 Apr 2020
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          Covenant's such an awful protagonist until midway through the third book that the surrounding characters have to carry the story. They don't really start doing that until the second book IMHO. Foul has the potential to be an epic villain but he never quite lives up to it.

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