"Man oh man do I ever wish the book was half that good!"

And there's me thinking - "Isn't it great that the book is even better". The strange thing is, I've found that there are things in the book that I can distinctly remember from the films. Except that they weren't actually there in the films. My mind has translated the memory from reading into a memory from seeing.

One thing, especially in the Return of the King - if you hadn't read the book, I think it might have been awfully hard to understand what was going on some of the time. I don't regard that as a signifcant flaw though. Just encourages people to read the book.