>>>Lord of the Rings is a bit ambitious - the kids will be grown up by the time you finish reading all 3 books in installments :-)
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>>Furthermore, and this applies for lots of the books in the list, why reading a book when there is already a movie!! {Ducks}
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>Harry Potters movies are quite good, IMHO.

They've gotten better as they went, but in every case, the book is better than the movie, because it has time and space to explore things outside the main plot.

Tamar