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2. A book that you’ve read more than three times.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. I read this book the first time when I was 15 or so and it came out in paperback. From the very first line I was captivated. Here was a whole new world and it seemed so strange and mystical to me.
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 to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
I wanted to live in Bilbo’s world but when I was taken into the wider world with him, I met characters that I would never forget: Gandalf, the dwarves and especially the elves. Then there was that one other icon of fantasy, the unforgettable Smaug.
This book opened a whole new world and spoiled me for other fantasy writers. There are none better than Tolkien. None at all!
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. I read this book the first time when I was 15 or so and it came out in paperback. From the very first line I was captivated. Here was a whole new world and it seemed so strange and mystical to me.
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 to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
I wanted to live in Bilbo’s world but when I was taken into the wider world with him, I met characters that I would never forget: Gandalf, the dwarves and especially the elves. Then there was that one other icon of fantasy, the unforgettable Smaug.
This book opened a whole new world and spoiled me for other fantasy writers. There are none better than Tolkien. None at all!