The Hobbit
Houghton Mifflin - Houghton Mifflin
Release date: 2002-08-15
Paperback
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Juvenile Fiction, Children's 12-Up - Literature - Classics, Children: Grades 2-3, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Classics, Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
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The Hobbit
Date undefinedIt must be over a decade since I last read this book- and nearly 35 years since I first read it. Yet, when I reread it this week I still became completely engrossed in it once again. Tolkien crafted a nearly perfect faery-tale here. In some ways it presages the Lord of the Rings, yet it is somehow different. It has a different feel to it. Had LOTR never been written this book would have still stood on its own as a classic.
When I choose to reread this classic I searched out a copy of the edition that I first read in High School (a friend lent me his treasured copy.) This was the 1966 Houghton Mifflin hardcover edition- 25th printing. I had heard some negative reports on the quality of later editions and I knew that this one was first rate. It has Tolkien's own illustrations in it and on the dust cover. Plus, after over 40 years it has still held together- and probably shall for 40 more.
So many books have copied this one over the years, but most of them are quickly forgotten while this one will last foreever. But then, Tolkien said that he sensed that everything that he put into this book (and LOTR) had actually happened somewhere, sometime, and that he was just tapping into it...
The Hobbit
Date undefinedThis is a wonderful CD. The narrator uses voices for all the characters. My students loved it.
The Hobbit
Date undefinedThis is an excellent reading of the Hobbit, and I'm really enjoying it. The reader does a great job of doing all the voices. I'd give it five stars but the quality of the CD manufacturing is not the best. I actually found some globs of rubber cement or sticky glue on the bottom of two of them. I finally got it cleaned off, but not before I had already tried the CD in my computer and a glob of glue mucked up the DVD burner and I had to replace it. I was pretty upset. There wasn't any glue on the packaging, just 2 CD's which I've never seen before. So just check them carefully.
But the reading of the book itself is so great, and the book so good that it kind of softens the blow. At least I had a tower PC and could just put in a new DVD burner. So just check the CD's when you get it first.
