TBR Jar Review: The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Edison
This book was my TBR Jar pick a while ago. I succeeded in ordering it at the library and it arrived pretty quickly. Then it lay around for a while. And then I finally pulled myself together and started reading it. And then I stopped! I just couldn’t get it to it. All I could figure out from the synopsis was that it was epic fantasy and that it inspired Tolkien to write “TheLord of the Rings”. So far so good. I figured it must be good with all the blurbs featured from writers such as C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. LeGuin. But I barely made it past the first 100 pages. The language was just really intricate and flowery and that made for very slow reading. Of course this was first published in 1922 so the language was bound to be a little old-fashioned, but I feel like the author tried to imitate the prose of medieval literature. And I did not see the call for that! As for the characters I never really connected with them. Partly because I didn’t really unde...