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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Caroline
Oct 29, 2012 rated it liked it
My one problem with this book is that it was really wordy, so it took me a while to get into it. Once I got in the 100's pages, though, it really started to pick up, and it was fun to see how many other fantasy books that I've read are based off of this one. ...more
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