I'll make this short. I don't have a lot to say about this book, and I am a little behind...both in posting reviews and reading books.I really thought I would enjoy this book more. I didn't really dislike it, more that I was simply disappointed. Part of the problem was that it is truly children's literature. I was expecting something a little less juvenile. The book really dragged for the first 100 pages. I nearly stopped reading it, but I usually finish a book if I start it. It got much better. The issue was that I didn't find Tolkien's prose all that good, so the slower parts of The Hobbit were just boring.
I am hoping that the LOTR books are better. People have told me that The Hobbit is much more of a kid's book than the LOTR books. I still plan on reading them, but my expectations have been lowered.
Check out Christopher's review of The Hobbit.
3 comments:
I agree with the juvenile comment. I nearly quit reading halfway through the twenty-seven page farting contest.
"Farting contests are well and good, but should be restricted to no more than 5 pages."
- James Joyce on farting contests
"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the farting and the dead."
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