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64. A Farewell to Arms
65. Cold Comfort Farm
66. Tender is the Night
67. Gone With the Wind
68. The Hobbit
69. Rebecca
70. For Whom the Bell Tolls
71. The Outsider
72. The Little Prince
73. The Plague
74. The Catcher in the Rye
75. The Judge and His ... ... which book it is . . .
But for any other beings from another planet who, like me, have never read this book before, it's The Hobbit. ... has the month gone?? I'm still reading the ER book and I'm also still reading my Go Review That Book book: it's:
28. The Hobbit by Tolkien. Yes, it's pretty much unbelievable that I have never read this book. But I'm well into it now, and I'll review it elsewhere.
And I still haven't ... ... of listening time... I do agree though, it's all about who reads them (I have very fond memories of Nicol Williams reading The Hobbit in particular - and tracked down an LP a couple of years ago). So thanks for your recommendation, shall give them a go! ... Cory Doctorow (224 pp)
I tried to read Lord Foul's Bane, but couldn't get past the third chapter. I'm now re-reading The Hobbit and will follow it up with The Lord of the Rings.
I'm way behind on my goal, but I'm still reading.
Total pages: 5384 ... 49
All Quiet on the Western Front
Portnoy's Complaint
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Treasure Island
The Hobbit
Around the World in 80 Days Impressionism
Tuesday
Under the Black Flag
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
The Hobbit, on audiobook
Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists
Fragile Things
Under Enemy Colors
I've actually picked up quite a few others this month. This is just from the past two ... ... in both women an echo of my own struggles to be taken seriously in my own right.
Do you remember what Tolkien wrote in The Hobbit: "Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that ... ... Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists
Under the Black Flag
Tuesday
The Hobbit, on audiobook
edited to fix touchstones
... parents are avid readers, and our weekly trips to the library were some of my favorite times with my family. My dad read The Hobbit to me one chapter at a time as a bedtime story, and that's the first book I remember really loving. I read constantly--with a book hidden in my lap during class, ... ... (that summer was awful, because i was on the fourth book and i wanted to know how it ended). when i was done, she gave me The Hobbit, and after that i was hooked on fantasy/sci fi.
to this day, i'll read almost anything that's put in front of me, but fantasy/sci fi is still my favorite. i ... This week i've acquired the following:
The Hobbit (pb) used
Q's Legacy (hb) used
both of the above from library surplus
The Annotated Hobbit new w/a 25% off coupon i got online for my birthday from Borders.
I had The Annotated Hobbit out of the library but it got ... ... de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery
The Mitford series by Jan Karon
Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wyn ... I'm reading my gorgeous Persephone Books (a possibly posh publisher in London) "The Making of a Marchioness" and The Hobbit (it was raining last weekend so K and I stayed in for an LoR Marathon)
The first book I remember reading was The Hobbit when I was 6 years old. But I had a full set of Oz books at the same time and I'm sure I read them ... just not sure if before or after JRR. I also had Big Red, Black Beauty, and a ton of other books.
By the time I could ride a bike I ... ... be that people want to review the books in their catalog. It makes no difference to me how many people have already review The Hobbit. I want my review of it in my catalog. ... Most Commonly Shared Books on the main group page. It seems that most of us are fantasy fans! Harry Potter (all seven!), The Hobbit, and then a couple of historical "romances" (Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice).
I haven't read the last two, but the first two are high on my list of ... ... Mercedes Lackey
31. Alta by Mercedes Lackey
32. Sanctuary by Mercedes Lackey
33. Aerie by Mercedes Lackey
34. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
And no I'd never read the Hobbit before, at least never finished it I'd tried to read it years ago with no success. THe only reason I ... ... to buy a present for my friend's birthday, and I would only buy that one book.
I walked out with Raiders and Rebels, The Hobbit, Between the Wingtips, and a cookbook. (This was, of course, in addition to the book for my friend.) Curse the clearance section! At least I got a good deal. I think I'll make an effort to finish the swedish edition of The hobbit, for my comparative reread. Then I think I'll pick up either Sailing from Byzantium or The search for the perfect language. Just finished The Hobbit. Now reading the 1st book of the series Warriors Into the Wild by Evan Hunter which is a YA series my 12 yr old Granddaughter has been reading avidly. I tried to get her to read some of the Redwall series which i've read quite a few of & she asked me to read ... ... Adventures of a young knight in Unauwen and Dagonaut, two fictional counries in the time of the middle ages.
62. De hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien *
I don't think I can add something new about this book ;-) ... which he talks about in great detail in the commentary. Right now i like to believe that PJ & GDT will do justice by The Hobbit. 8^) ... that's too detailed can be hard for me to read regardless of whether its fiction or non-fiction. I tried reading Tolkien's The Hobbit but couldn't finish it, the same for The Wolf: The ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species. But, especially for the non-fiction, I've always figured it ... ... authors such as Tom Clancy and John Grisham rarely write above a level 6.5. Even Tolkien's books are in that level. The Hobbit is the highest ranking Tolkien book we have, and it is a 6.6. ... the series. If you own a Boxed Set and I own The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King (+/- The Hobbit) - as far as I am concerned we own the same books, being in a boxed set doesn't add any information. I DO consider The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide ... ejj1955,
Please read The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.
To whoever picks for me - please pick something tagged "to read." ... Tolkien put things together in what was, at the time, a new & different way. Since the original publication of The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings many have attempted to copy him but many have also fallen short. I did not read Tolkien until i was in my 60s but had not at that time ... ...
No problem, everybody has different tastes (thank goodness!!!, how vanilla the world would be otherwise). But Tolkien, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings especially, have a very, very special place in my heart. The other books are a delight too, but those 2 (4?) are foremost. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The group is named after one of the pubs in the trilogy. If you haven't read them, I highly recommend 'em. They're great! ... Kenneth Grahame because it is so delightfully written and portrays both people and animals in a loving light. . .
2. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien because it is a terrific romp through Middle Earth, and b/c I can't use up all my choices by taking the trilogy. . .
3. Good Omens by ... IMHO there's a vast gap between Hobbit and LotR on one hand, and all the books published posthumously on the other. Namely, the narrative in the two first-named flows. The others are written in such a high-born, old-fashioned register that I have the greatest difficulty picking up the book again ... ...and as the swedish translation of The Hobbit that I own seems to be a word by word translation of the UK original (thus not managing to translate the poetry and tone of said original, as sentences etc. aren't built in the same way in swedish) I felt I had to take yet another break... so 5 ... I just finished Well of Ascension - felt like I had to put something in between my two readings of The hobbit or it'd feel a bit repetitive.
I really enjoyed reading it - now I only have to wait for the last part of the trilogy! ... children until they explained they acted it all out with Beanie Babies to make it more age-appropriate. I just stuck with The Hobbit until my kids were old enough to read TLOR on their own.
It is a challenge choosing material for young high-level readers, especially if they are not also ... From The Hobbit (you'd think I would have found all the new vocabulary in that one already, but no!)
glede: a live coal or ember I had to read The Hobbit in fourth grade for summer reading in school. The Princess and the Goblin for myself ... Magic of the Celtic Otherworld by Stephen Blamires
Celtic Women's Spirituality by Edain McCoy
And reread The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
(Edited because the touchtones don't want to work for me)
#23
The Hobbit would still be under copyright.
It will be subject to UK law, since it was first published here. The law here is that copyright subsists in a work of literature for 70 years after the author's death. Tolkien died in 1973, so we're exactly halfway from then until the date ... ... in return, probably books I don't want to read (swedish best seller list - yuk).
Still undecided.
In another manner The hobbit left my home today, travelling in my bag. ... tables...
The Language of God by Francis Collins
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
And a box set of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, which WILL NOT be lent out to be lost in the void of books lent and never returned. Ever again.
I just finished the Hobbit for the 10th time or so, love that book ;-)
And of course started The Lord of the Rings after that. I red those for the first time when I was 12 and have re-read them every 3 to 5 years.
On my profile page is a list of all books I have been (re-)reading this year. I just finished the Hobbit for the 10th time or so, love that book ;-)
And of course started The Lord of the Rings after that. I red those for the first time when I was 12 and hqave re-read them every 3 to 5 years.
On my profile page is a list of all books I have been (re-)reading this year. I decided today that I will do a comparative reread of the two editions of The hobbit that I own - the swedish original translation and the 1951 english edition (a 1979 reprint).
Edited to correct myself - the swedish edition is the 2nd one (of 3, instead of 1st of 2, which I thought). ... of the Flies (508)
23. For Whom the Bell Tolls (587)
24. The Power and the Glory (589)
25. Rebecca (603)
26. The Hobbit (610)
27. Out of Africa (614)
28. The Sun Also Rises (689)
29. A Passage to India (708)
30. Babbitt (722)
31. Main Street (727)
32. Three Lives ... ... ones just for the sake of my poor numb knees.
Oh & whilst their at work with that they can get started on an Alan Lee The Hobbit as well. :) ... nished
10. Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind finished
11. Katherine the Virgin Widow by Jean Plaidy finished
12. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
13. Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
14. Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
15. Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley
16. Grass Crown by Colleen M ... ... and his twisted originality, Ray Bradbury for his imagination and humor.. Enders Game, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit hmmm...old school The Giving Tree ! Hard Boiled wonderland and the end of the world ... The Things they carried, The princess bride, Narnia, Little Wom ... ... the Sorcerer's Stone
14 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
14 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
14 - The Hobbit
13 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
13 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
13 - The Da Vinci Code
12 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow ... ... can't stand it, just number the books as 0 or decimals; it's a wiki after all. Though you probably shouldn't go changing The Hobbit admittedly. ... overlong? To me a movie (or book) is overlong when the premise is stretched too thin.
Now, I'm not a Tolkien fan at all. The Hobbit is my favorite book, partly because I read it so many times as a kid, but I didn't bother reading The Lord of the Rings until after I saw The Fellowship of ... ... than it is to hand-code links to works, but fortunately work touchstones are more likely to work than author touchstones: The Hobbit. (Single-word titles appear to be least likely to touchstone properly, hence the difficulty with "Twilight" and "Eclipse" above, and also-reported problems with ... ... you! I didn't like the mom character and the book upset me. Yeesh. I was much more worked up over Tae's consideration of The Hobbit (horrible book). Did I hate Jamie for God of Small Things? That book made me violent. Keeper did provoke such reactions from me. Though maybe I didn't ... The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown
The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle ... as I want to give myself some time to forget details.
4. The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, 7 times for the first few.
5. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, 7 times. I'm not really sure why, as it's not even close to being one of my favourite books. ... let
Absalom, Absalom!
The Town
The unvanquished
The Reivers (Do we begin to see a pattern here?)
Jane Eyre
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
The Clue in the Leaning Chimney (Nancy Drew--I think at last count, when I stopped re-reading it about 40 years ago, I had read it ... That's an easy one to answer. For me it was Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. Back in the late 70s and early 80s I had always heard great reviews about the books and I finally wound up getting them at a Book Sale for 25 cents apiece. In fact I still have those books at ... ... before but always wanted to or pick up something I haven't read in awhile and reread the book. I like to read books like The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Ruth Rendell or any of my other favorite Authors.
beatles1964 #12 I was so hoping that McKellen would do Gandalf in The Hobbitt. Now I can sleep at night. Top 25 (including ties)
Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Hobbit
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Beowulf
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Earthsea Cycle
The Odyssey
The Princess Bride
The Wonderful Wi ... ... otes:
Beowulf
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Hobbit
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
(Edited: Added the Potter)
... vortex would open up in the theatre. Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, on the other hand, are a great resumé for The Hobbit. ...
I'm involved in a major sewing project so listened to The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde and the BBC's version of The Hobbit. Today I start on Pride and Prejudice read by Joanna Lumley. After that will be Never Have Your Dog Stuffed. I think I'll go with The Hobbit from J.R.R. Tolkien. I just finished rereading The Hobbit -- Tolkein is the standard by which I judge all other fantasy novels. I am about two thirds of the way through A Storm of Swords by George R R Martin. I noticed the messages about A Feast for Crows and hope to be moving on to that book by mid-May. ... ... more violent thanI remember the book being
I wonder about this for the first Narnia movie and LOTR, as well as the Hobbit. After thinking about it a bit though, it's not that the books are not violent. They really are, it's just that it isn't graphically described in the book as it must ... ... from a fate it doesn't deserve. Maybe they had read the book many, many times over the years. I have copies of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy where the covers are faded with age and some pages may have been dog-eared by previous owners over the years but that only ... 60. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
I have never read this book or any of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I had tried to watch the movies, but didn't like them. My husband was trying to get our 10 year old to read this since he loves fantasy and sci fi books. Instead I read it. It is a ... ... Susan Cooper & Alan Garner for honourable mentions
And.. My childhood wouldn't have been complete without The Hobbit of course.
I think that covers everything I remember loving up to 8.. ... the 412 mean and why is this book number one?
http://www.librarything.com/tag/fantasy
If I click on "see raw count" The Hobbit comes out as number one with a value of 4467/20223. What do these numbers mean?
Also the following page lists Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone as ... I am currently reading Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz, Middlemarch and The Hobbit. Yes, but 1000 pages with our furry footed friend is time well spent. in secondary school we read the hobbit in English. Many a debate was had over who would win in a fight, Bilbo or Frodo. What did you think of the movie in comparison? Didn’t they leave out the burning of the shire? (it’s ... ... level English that might be why you don’t remember it. But, as I recall for the junior-cert ordinary level got to do the hobbit and Playboy of the western world while higher level got Shakespeare. I know which I prefer.
i'm not 100% sure but i think moore was nominated for the ... The top picks from 39 votes so far are:
Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit by Tolkien (35 votes, Duh!)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Rowling (32 votes)
Dracula by Stoker (27 votes)
A Midsummer's Night Dream by Shakespeare (25 votes)
Gulliver's Travels by S ... ... Patty
Duke fromThe Patty Duke Show and The Baby Sitter mix well and nine months later you get Samwise Gamgee a hobbit. Well there goes my equation too. I thought I had heard he was the father.
beatles1964 ... Gomez Addams plus Patty
Duke from The Patty Duke Show mix well and nine months later you get Samwise Gamgee a hobbit.
beatles1964 41- And the first long book I read was The Hobbit. I started being able to read fast by then, so I read it in a week. ;) ... lgernon
Gathering Blue
The Giver (as a child)
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit
I Am the Messenger
Life of Pi
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (even though this is already included under The Chronicles of Narnia)
The Little ... ... ad
The Girls
The Giver
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Handmaid's Tale
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit (2-3 times)
Les Miserables (2 times)
Lord of the Rings (2 times)
The Lovely Bones
Never Let Me Go
NIGHT ...again, no touchstone?
Nine Stories
Th ... ... by H.G. Wells
The last two are re-reads from a couple of years ago, and The LOTR I just had to read after reading The Hobbit. But the top six books catalogued on here are 6 of the Harry Potters, followed by the Da Vinci code then The hobbit, then 1984 and the tenth is the seventh harry potter.
Would it really be that different if LT users were polled?
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