Vacation of the Mind

A day after coming back from my Ashland vacation, I also completed another vacation of the mind. I finished reading The Lord of the Rings again for the umpteenth time. I had almost forgotten how good it is. Since I first read this in high school, I read it again every 3 or 4 years and it was like going on a holiday. The story is so rich. When the movies came out a decade ago, I couldn’t read it for a while. While the movies were good (although not as good as the books) the imagery and characters in the movies was so strong, I couldn’t get it out of my mind to have a pure experience with the books for quite some time. But finally I did it, this time using my larger hardback copies, and it was great again. Now maybe I’ll try to watch the movies again.