J.R.R. Tolkien - El hobbit

Pros: wonderful characters particularly Bilbo and Gollum, not entirely predictable, witty, some breathtaking passages
Cons: it ended

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or eat: it was a hobbit-hole and that means comfort....

Pros: fairly true to the original
Cons: washed out pictures, badly organized and difficult to determine order to read, Batman-like interjections

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or eat: it was a hobbit-hole and that means comfort. ...

Pros: Easy on the brain, good for kids, fills in Middle Earth' early Third-Age history
Cons: For adults, there are many fantasy novels out there that are much better

Poor little Bilbo Baggins. He was like most Hobbits (the preface is dedicated to telling you about this little-known, unassuming race) – dead boring really. He didn’t like change and rarely ventured outside of his immediate neighbourhood. ...

Pros: funny, interesting, inspiring, lighthearted without being lightheaded
Cons: none at all! good morning!

Kind reader, I would like to invite you on a tale of enchanting, amusing adventure.

I would like to show you around The Hobbit a bit, to let you see if you can see in it what I see. I cannot bring myself to knowingly spoil any of the...

Pros: Interesting story and characters.
Cons: If you are reading to a young child. Character's die after battle.

I read The Hobbit many years ago and had forgotten about it. Reading about the making of the movie, The Lord of the Rings (to which The Hobbit is a prelude), reminded me of that charming tale and I had to read it again.

It is a fantasy...A...

Pros: A fantasy that takes your breath away, prelude to 'The Lord of the Rings.'
Cons: none

Seriously, I read this book the first time in the year 1997, I remember because it was a birthday gift from my husband. I had never heard of JRR Tolkien or The Hobbit, neither The Lord of the Rings. So after a few pages it was all utter confusion, and I ...

Pros: Wizards, strange creatures, shapeshifting humans, jewels, treasure, magic, and a reluctant burglar.
Cons: When Bilbo throws a party in his fly Hobbit hole, I crave sugary-sweets.

"'Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!' he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later and passed into a proverb. 'You aren't nearly through this adventure yet,' he added and that was pretty true as well."--Bilbo...

Pros: A very quick read full of great adventure.
Cons: The writer can leave you hanging about things to come later on.

Once upon a time a girl married a boy who loved Fantasy Books! And this girl asked her husband what was a Fantasy Book? Because all she had ever read were Romance/Mystery Books. He explained to her that Fantasy Books were stories of pure enjoyment....

Pros: Nearly everything - plot, setting, characters, suspense, themes... you name it
Cons: Slow beginning...

The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien is one of those timeless classics that is destined to stay on the shelves of bookstores around the world for years to come. I, personally, am not a big fantasy-book type of guy; I generally like realistic fiction or ...

Pros: Creative characters and plot, entertaining writing style, kept my attention
Cons: Too many dwarves to keep straight

My summer project is reading the whole Lord of the Rings series, and I just completed the Hobbit. There is some argument back and forth about whether one should read the books before seeing the movies but it’s too late for that since I’ve ...

Pros: good writing, good plot, THE fantasy novel
Cons: who the heck are all of these short bearded guys?

I was up at the library, just a few blocks away, seeing if our tiny town had managed to import anything I'd never read. While cruising through the fantasy section, I spied an old copy of The Hobbit, and picked it up, thinking to take it home to...

Pros: First mass-market appearance of the Middle-earth Legendarum. Well executed and imagined.
Cons: Naration style is rather too cutsey-poo for it's own good. A little baroque at times.

The front cover copy on the Ballantine paperback edition of "The Hobbit" describes it as "The charming prelude to 'The Lord of the Rings'". "Charming" is an interesting word, is it not? Not a word one would be terribly likely to apply to the "Lord of ...

Pros: A character that really grows on you.
Cons: A little slow in the beginning; too many characters to keep track of.

A copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit sat on my shelf for so long that I began to regret ever impulsively buying it. And when I started reading it, I thought I'd need to force myself to read a chapter a day just to get through it. I guess that's...

Pros: A wonderful, simple and entertaining story.
Cons: -

One of my first memories of literary rebirth surrounds the captivity of my imagination to the story of The Hobbit, which I read during the summer between seventh and eighth grade, sitting in the backyard sun, eating saltine crackers, and sipping...

Pros: Beautifully written story for kids & adults.
Cons: None to mention

Ok to begin with I'm not a lover of fantasy or magic stories, nor am I a huge reader but in the last while with all the hype regarding Harry Potter books and film and then The Lord of The Rings film, I have decided that I must be missing out on something...