Here is the quote of the day from ~Kung Fu Monkey:
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
I have read and reread Lord of the Rings. I stopped by my local bookstore years ago and they had Atlas Shrugged in the science fiction section and I was unable to get past the second chapter. I own Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies although I think he really messed up the adaptation of the charming book The Hobbit.