The Hobbit
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When does it start to be interesting.
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Dec 08, 2011 03:47PM
I have red 25% of the book but I'm still not hooked! WHen does it sarts to be interesting?
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so you don't have any idea...
Yeahright wrote: "I have red 25% of the book but I'm still not hooked! WHen does it sarts to be interesting?"I would say once the characters start really suffering it gets very good. My favorite parts are when Bilbo meets Gollum and when he encounters the dragon, both later in the book. I feel like it takes Tolkien a little more time to build his world than the modern reader's accustomed to, but it will pay off in the end. Or at least it did for me.
I loved The Hobbit from the very beginning. It may just not be your kind of book...just a theory.
It's a very hard book to get into but I found the climax to be interesting and exciting. But I think it's worth reading if not only for the incredible detail that Tolkien uses.
Depends on many things. It was meant for the 'younger reader'. I read it at primary school 30 years ago (shudder) and loved it.
Iain wrote: "Depends on many things. It was meant for the 'younger reader'. I read it at primary school 30 years ago (shudder) and loved it."That's a good point...I was 14 when I read it. That may have been a lot of why I liked it. I haven't read it since.
I really like the book and enjoy a lot the 3/4, 4/4 parts
Well, now Bilbo met Gollum, and I started loving it =P I love the musicality of Tolkien's writing! I think it's more a book to be read out loud.
Yeahright wrote: "Well, now Bilbo met Gollum, and I started loving it =P I love the musicality of Tolkien's writing! I think it's more a book to be read out loud."It's definitely a "read out loud" book! :)
I enjoyed the book starting about the time Gandalf scratched the rune on Bilbo's door - in other words, right from the start.
I imagine it being read to me like a legendary story. That helped a lot. I also imagine the characters' voices in my head when I read it.
I saw the animated movie as an adult, before I read the book,and found it absolutely delightful. I've been a Hobbit/Ring addict ever since.
When does it start to get interesting? At "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
Well said, Jackmuccullough!
As soon as when Gandalf started examining the many meanings of 'Good morning', I was hooked.
Badgerlord wrote: "As soon as when Gandalf started examining the many meanings of 'Good morning', I was hooked."Gandalf may actually be the character that turned me into a writer because of that passage.
Yeahright wrote: "I have red 25% of the book but I'm still not hooked! WHen does it sarts to be interesting?"ABout once he finds the ring
What we know now is that in Chapter 5, Riddles in the Dark, not only does Bilbo not know what the ring is, but at that time neither did Tolkien.
I was intrigued pretty much the whole book, as I read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy first. I kept on saying, "Oh so that's why." and, "I hadn't thought about that." Once the dwarves arrived I got more interested though. The dwarves are funny.
I loved it from the word go because of the way it was written. And I ceased being a kid a long time back :D
I love the book from the very beginning. I love it how tolkien describes the hobbit hole and I love it when the dwarves arrived. But this boook most definitly is not for all readers I have tried to get some of my friends to read it and they thought that it was quite boring. But I personally liked it the the frist word to the last word.
I loved it the first time it was read to me - but then I was probably 5 or 6 at the time, and easily amused.Of course, I still love it, but I don't know if, re-reading it today, I'd still think it "got interesting" at any point. It is very much a book for young children, and for adults it's not so much about actual interest as it is about the reader having to allow themselves to feel the child-like wonder again (which is probably easier if you remember reading it as a child). Your mileage may vary.
Karlie wrote: "I loved The Hobbit from the very beginning. It may just not be your kind of book...just a theory."Agreed, it might not be his type of book. My answer to when it gets exciting is page one.
My Grand Mother grew up in a one room dugout that's a home dug into the side of a hill for all you unfamiliar to the term. She lived their whit her parents 3 brothers and her grandmother and grandfather that's 9 people in all sleeping in one room. They where poor, dirt poor because they didn't even own the dugout they lived in. They worked vary hard to survive the dust bowl and Depression. And silly as this may seam that's way I was hooked at "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
That's so cool they got to live in a hobbit hole. I really want to live in one.
Micaela wrote: "That's so cool they got to live in a hobbit hole. I really want to live in one."You can if you want. People do build them. They're very warm in cold climates. Unfortunately they also have serious problems with dampness, and often with air circulation too. But it can be done. Bill Gates' place is essentially a hobbit hole, iirc, albeit a very nice one and with a larger bit sticking out the front.
Jackmccullough wrote: "When does it start to get interesting? At "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.""Bravo! Well said!
There must be a certain relationship built between the book (block of paper) and the reader. Both must bring something, and it is my belief that "The Hobbit" leaves nothing behind; it does all any book can to transcend from a block of paper to a great story.Without the ability to suspend one's disbelief and the willingness to be led, great works like "The Hobbit" tend to remain "uninteresting".
I remember when Bilbo first meets Gollum is when I thought: "This is actually pretty good."I have yet to finish the LOTR, however.
never ever does it get interesting i acually stopped rdg it 4 the hunger games. my freind told me the hunger games wuz good, forced me to check it out. i hated the first 20 or so pages but then t got so interesting i couldnt put it down. unlike this book...
Megan: Then why did you rate it 4 stars? Makes no sense.
i accedently rated it 4 stars
how old r u? (btw: i was stupid enough to click on that link:)PS: that ment to be a smiley face:)
i dont beleive ur telling the truth but i cross my heart i am!
is your name actually brandon?
jk ur probably not lying
not to be stalkerish but i read ur profile
when does ur winter break start?
m2!!!! our school normally gets out for winter break monday but this year the teachers changed it
what school do u go 2?
oh i live in minnesota (said with a minnesotan accent:)
you just say the o really long:)
Why do so many people spell incorrectly on here?
I don't know, Larry!
Larry wrote: "Why do so many people spell incorrectly on here?"Larry the reason a lot of people are bad spellers here is because most are readers not writers. They have spent so much time reading they have neglected their spelling. Or at lest that's what I think
That's really not true. I never consciously tried to learn spelling, grammar, or vocabulary. My voracious reading is the ONLY teacher I needed. I knew what words meant and how to spell them before I even knew how to pronounce them, making me look pretty ridiculous in school. I won a spelling bee in school with no effort on my part -- I merely knew all the words and how to spell them from books I had read. I understand some people are dyslexic, but anyone else who calls themselves a reader should really have basic spelling skills.
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