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Originally Posted by Sliver
Yes, I tried to read them out loud to my kids as well and couldn't do it. So strange how popular it is.
Went through the same thing with The Hobbit. Have you tried reading that to your kids? It's even worse.
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The Hobbit was worse than my memories of the book from when I was a kid. Tolkien uses a lot of damned awkward prose. For all his renown as some kind of classical writer, the words don't exactly flow off the tongue. But it wasn't nearly as bad as Rowling. I had to go back and repeat many sentences because I just couldn't grasp what she was getting at. The woman has no ear for language whatsoever.
I'm reading
Sabriel by Garth Nix to the kids right now, and it's a genuine pleasure.