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My vocabulary is very limited, people always say reading is the best way to improve it. I browsed several pages of "The Lord of the Rings", to my surprised, it's not as difficult as I imagined, I want to read it carefully, since it's quite old, is it a good choice for learning English?(maybe many vocabularies are old-fashioned). Thanks!
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I don't mind. The first book in the series is a fairly easy read as Tolkein intended it to be a continuation of The Hobbit for which his audience was children. By the time you read well into the third book, the language becomes more complicated as Tolkein plays out his saga in dramatic fashion.
That may make it ideal for your purpose as your understanding will develop gradually as
If a novel is what you're looking for and you like fantasy, then I suggest the best fantasy series out there right now (it just barely beats out LOTR for #1 in my mind).
THE WHEEL OF TIME series by ROBERT JORDAN. So far the series is up to 10 books (each around 550 pages long) and it doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon either.
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS!!!!!!! THEYRE THE BEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!
also books by Lois Lowery, margaret peterson haddix, lemony Snicket, Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle, The Mysterious Matter of I.M Fine (forget the author), I'm Emma: I'm a quint by Stella Pevsner, and Switching Well by Peni R. Griffin