Mine is also LoTR. I was a lonely kid and reading it made me feel like I was part of the fellowship and it modeled friendship for me. I reread it every couple years and it only gets better.

I reread favorites for self-comfort.

its pleasurable and also beneficial

DNF it, you aren’t missing anything. Its really bad writing and besides a couple ideas nothing worth much.

i wish there was an app that i could use to lookup page ranges for spicy scenes so I could know what to skip

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes

I had this one on my shelf for a decade… a full decade, finally read it and loved it. Immediately went through it again.