I enjoyed reading Children of Hurin out loud in bed, all the names put my girlfriend right to sleep!

I think even more so than LotR, reading CoH feels like reading myths out of a collection. It's in that mythic register rather than the sort of heroic register of LotR.

Overall, I enjoyed the book. I'd only read the part in the Silmarillion previously. Looking forward to rereading that and picking up Beren and Luthien later this year.