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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I'm still reading The History of the Hobbit, and I'm now through the text of the first couple of editions, and into the (new to me) proposed rewrite of 1960, which luckily never happened, as to my mind it's not as good as the original, although some bits did make it into the 1966 revision.
Fascinating stuff. But it's a long book!
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I finished! And very good it was too, with fascinating insights into the composition and later updates to The Hobbit.
As a quick and fun read after just a long book, I read
Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian. Good stuff, although I feel the consequences of the events depicted were downplayed.
Next up: Asimov's Sf Magazine for July/August 2019.