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Reading this right after Lord of the Rings is a bit strange since the tone is so much different and lighter. (There's even a first person narrator at times.) It's also been over ten years since I read this and I hadn't realized how much I'd forgotten. But it's still an excellent book.
Audiobook: I must admit for a second I forgot who was reading it and thought "Wow, this guy does an amazing Gollum." Anyway, my foolishness aside. Still excellent. ...more
Audiobook: I must admit for a second I forgot who was reading it and thought "Wow, this guy does an amazing Gollum." Anyway, my foolishness aside. Still excellent. ...more
I first read this book in the 6th grade and I didn't like it much. I didn't like any books I was made to read in middle school purely on principle. Now 25 years later, I've reread it and had a wonderful time of it. It's much more witty and fairytale-like than I remember. It has a very different tone than any of Tolkien's other Middle Earth books, and I appreciated it a lot more on this reread. I hope LOTR holds up to a reread just as well.
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