/lit/ - Literature

Will reading this improve my life in any way other than preventing normies from gasping when I told them I haven't read it?

>>22557030
Do normies read anything else in fantasy?

When does it get good?
Does it even make sense to read this if I’ve seen the movies?

>>20173789
>does reading a series of books make sense without reading the first book in the series
Can any anons tell me if lotr will make sense if I don’t read pic related first?

Holy fucking shit this is boring. I'm nearly 200 pages in. The little faggots just met Aragornin the Prancing Pony. Does this shit get any better and is it worth reading because FUCK this book is boring as SHIT up to this point. The barrow-wight part (and to a lesser extent the Tom Bombadil part) was more interesting because of the dream-like nature of those passages and the pretty effective horror aspect. Other than that this book is "they walked over a hill" 1000x in a row intermixed with twee british period tv-drama dialogue... "oh dear I couldn't possibly presume to have tea before you have some first my daerest friend oh dear me old boy...."

People love these books so much. It must get better. Does it get better?

So when does it get good? So far it's just a bunch of hobbits on a boring road trip. Just reached the Tom Memebadil part and am about to quit