The Children of Hurin came out today. It was “reconstructed” by Christopher Tolkien from his fathers notes and writings. I loved the LOTR, thought The Hobbit was a childrens book, and got through about 5 pages of the Silmarillion before having to put it down. Hurin is supposed to be readable like LOTR, so maybe I’ll have to buy it. Anybody heard anything else about it?
On a lighter note, Patrick Hughes of Bad News Hughes fame is publishing the Diary of Indignities in June. Many a time colleagues at work have stuck their head into my office to ask “What’s wrong?” after hearing me laughing my ass off while reading his blog posts. He is my same age, and tells stories of growing up similar to mine, but 10x worse, resulting in even more damage and chaos. I’ll have to buy this.