3.73 avg rating — 13,524 ratings

"In the beginning there was a river. The rier became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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3.97 avg rating — 2,791,690 ratings

"It was a pleasure to burn."

3.30 avg rating — 1,161 ratings

"I never ha sex with my father but I would have, if he had agreed."

4.30 avg rating — 4,416,034 ratings

" 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. "

3.81 avg rating — 74,187 ratings

"I used to think if you fell from grace it was more than likely not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you don't lose your stomach or hurt yourself in the landing."

3.67 avg rating — 2,748 ratings

"I'd come five years and two thousand miles to stand in the rain while they prepared my brother for his own murder."