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The book cover alone was worth the disappointing books vote, its true. :)

Honestly? I find that I'm very often disappointed by second /movies/ of trilogies, but usually not by books. I loved the second George RR Martin book, all the second Guy Gavriel Kay books, Lynn Flwelling books, Anne Bishop, Robin Hobb, Storm Constantine, Terry Goodkind, even freaking Robert Jodan's second book was still good. But this one was /so/ plodding and /so/ boring it actually ended up taking me /years/ to finish the trilogy because I could not, for the life of me, get more than 100 pages into this book without putting it down and attempting to forget I ever tried. After loving the Fellowship of the Ring and having to wait years to get to The Return of the King because this was such a brick wall of ennui, I think its fair to say that this was disappointing to me.

The second movie had some pretty fantastic battle sequences, though.

Eh, we all have those books that we read in childhood and have unreasonable/emotional attachments to. A few authors on that list I named fall under that category for me. Once you've fixed something in your head with that kind of glowing love/nostalgia, its hard to dislodge, I would think. and why would you want to? :)

Its a good thing I forgot a lot of the books, too, because what I did remember made me realize how much of the good stuff they left out.