Reddit reviews The Hobbit: Pocket Edition

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To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of Tolkien or of Harry Potter. But I've read them and they're classics so I keep them on the shelf anyway. One day I might donate the Harry Potters if shelf space starts to get scarce again, but I'll probably hang onto the Tolkiens forever.

I've read a lot of fantasy because George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire got me back into reading about 10 years ago after being burned out on it for years after college, but I didn't really like most of the fantasy I read and it seemed to take me years of reading it to realize that. So I'd say fantasy in general just isn't really my thing.

Since then I started a project to collect and read all the classics that I haven't read (I was a history major so I didn't read much lit after high school, and in high school I wasn't a big fan of reading so I barely read even what I was assigned) and I've discovered that I like the classics quite a bit better than the genre fiction I was reading earlier this decade.

That Hobbit is Houghton Mifflin pocket edition. I like the art probably better than I like the story, ha.

And yes, feel free to tag me! Would love to take a look at your shelf.