J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers
I've read before that Tolkien originally intended for LOTR to be six individual books, and nowhere is that clearer than in this middle one, which tells two completely different stories--the first, dealing with Aragorn and Pippin/Merry and Legolas and Gimli, and the second, with Frodo and Sam and Gollum. I'd forgotten how major the Ents are in the book, whcih was nice to revisit--all I remember from the movie is battle after battle, and maybe one scene with Ents. And Tolkien has a good sense of timing--as soon as I was getting tired of Frodo and Sam's sad journeying, they run into Faramir! Off to read the third!
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