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(Finished the book but my readalong group won't finish until end of December, so I'll update the blog links as they post, and return for a full review.)
Reading this along with a group of book bloggers in November and December, so this will be a long read (the book itself is not that long!). In December, the Sword & Laser group is also reading it, so this book will be in our collective memory.
My thoughts on chapters I-II.
My thoughts on chapters III-V (I have questions about the creatures, come he ...more
Reading this along with a group of book bloggers in November and December, so this will be a long read (the book itself is not that long!). In December, the Sword & Laser group is also reading it, so this book will be in our collective memory.
My thoughts on chapters I-II.
My thoughts on chapters III-V (I have questions about the creatures, come he ...more

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Rereading The Hobbit for the first time as an adult, I found my perspective has shifted so much on the role of greed and violence in the narrative. I don't remember it being such an indictment of human nature (not to mention dwarf nature and hobbit nature and wood elf nature).
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Apr 19, 2018
Steve Coughlan
marked it as to-read