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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Start date
December 1, 2012
Finish date
December 31, 2012

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Jenny (Reading Envy)
(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
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Dave
Apr 03, 2007 rated it it was amazing
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Michael
Dec 24, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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). ...more
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Dec 24, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: digital-owned
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Apr 13, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: sydney, owned, ebook
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