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What is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?

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Grayox@lemmy.ml
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It is literally easier to read the KJV of the Bible than the Silmarillon.

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SecretPancake@feddit.de
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Easy != Fun

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davidgro@lemmy.world
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Strong disagree. I’ve read The Silmarillion. Sure I don’t remember much of it now, but at the time it was interesting and entertaining to me. It’s also not that huge a book, on the same order as one or two of the main LoTR books. If the KJV were in the same (normal) font size+width and paper thickness it would be Gigantic.

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