I love to read. But some­times, I start a book, and it sim­ply does not cap­ti­vate me. If it’s still a slog by page 100 or so, I’m done with it. The Lord of the Rings—I know it’s the defin­i­tive heroic fan­tasy tril­ogy, the one that every­one in the Uni­verse cribs from, but some­where around the …