Stopspot said:
Waco: The hobbit is a completely different ballgame really. It's more of a kids book than the other works of Tolkien
I read LOTR first. Then, my 5th grade teacher told me I should read the Hobbit. I didn't like it because it was too much of a kids' book, so I put it down after the first two or three chapters. Mrs. Atkinson was disappointed (of course, the fact that she had a 5th grade student who read LOTR, Dracula, Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and about a half-dozen other "hard" books probably tempered her disappointment).
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