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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Why we're reading this
For week 3 and why not week 7!
For compare to the movie and also beginning the saga of Lotr

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Stacey Avis
Dec 28, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Still a great story!

Reading challenege- a book from my childhood
Rebecca
Jan 08, 2013 rated it really liked it
I enjoyed this much more than my attempt at LOTR, probably because it was written for children and so not as tedious to me. One day I will read LOTR.

Not happy with some characters endings though, but don't want to spoil anyone.
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Micah
Nov 23, 2010 rated it really liked it
While it's a classic read, I didn't find myself too into it. I felt fairly annoyed with all of the main characters for the first half of the book. I wanted Bilbo to get over his fear of everything and the dwarves to stop being so dwarve-ish and Gandolf to stop being able to fix everything. I mean, I guess it's convenient. I'm also starting to find more and more that the fewer dynamic, independent, interesting female/non-male characters a book has, the less automatic interest I have in it. But ov ...more
Tessa
Jun 11, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Ariel Pick
Jun 25, 2010 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Corey
Jul 26, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Kels
Jul 28, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Katherine
Sep 14, 2010 rated it liked it
Shelves: fantasy-read
Erin
Oct 06, 2010 rated it did not like it
Natasha
Oct 09, 2010 rated it it was ok
T
Oct 21, 2010 rated it liked it
Js3698
Nov 18, 2010 rated it really liked it
Lemmington27
Dec 25, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Susan
Jan 01, 2011 rated it it was ok
Louise
Sep 21, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Mat Davies
Oct 22, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Helen
Jan 04, 2012 rated it really liked it
Raynell
Feb 22, 2012 rated it really liked it
Tammi
Oct 27, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: kindle
Mary Anne
Dec 03, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction
Felicia
Dec 20, 2012 marked it as to-read
Isabella Andrade
Jan 09, 2013 marked it as to-read
Adam Smith
Mar 05, 2013 marked it as need-a-copy
Shelves: classics
Kattyaj
Nov 23, 2013 rated it really liked it
Matt Spiess
May 29, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: liz