Let Túrin Rest In Peace

I've just finished reading The Children of Húrin. If you haven't read or didn't enjoy The Silmarillion, this isn't a book for you. If you did enjoy The Silmarillion, then The Children of Húrin has little to offer you that you haven't already read in chapter XXI of The Silmarillion and in Unfinished Tales' Narn i Hîn Húrin. The dry prose is actually harder to bear in this more drawn-out form. Give it a miss.

I suppose Christopher Tolkien was bound by available texts, but this story seems like an odd choice to want to expand upon -- Beren or Tuor might have been better selections.