My father read The Hobbit to me when I was little, to help me fall asleep. Maybe that's a story I made up. As a teen I read through the book in one day. A great feat of reading but I don't remember much from that reading. I woke up and started it, read it through the day and then read into the night. I think I stayed up till 2 reading it. I remember wanting him to get home, I guess I really wanted the book to end. I read a third of it to my sons before they decided they didn't want to be read to any more. My daughter won't let me read to her, only books she chooses. I read through the Lord of the Rings trilogy recently. So I thought it was time to come around on the Hobbit again. It's a small paperback that I can take sometimes. I read it in spurts. I took it to read when I was flying and I read of Bard killing Smaug as I landed. I was horrified that Smaug attacked the river island city. I thought Thorin was pretty horrible to not give them some money for their ...