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Pippin being Pippin 🍻🫠

I have found the most wonderful audio version and it is such an joy to listen to. LOTR is currently my travel audiobook and it does make the journey less boring!

First time reading - its been too long

Well I haven't even reached the first chapter and I already learned that the author detests this work which is delightfully discouraging.

Despite it's classic position in literary history, I have absolutely no idea about what I am about to read.

Parris's portrayal of Mr. Collins is wonderfully painful

I ask for tissues and there is a crush as three kids make a leap for the box. They carry it together, like it is a large piece of furniture. They offer it to me and I thrust my gloved hand inside.
'It's empty,' one of the children tells me solemnly.



Bahaha, yes thank you, little Timmy, very helpful.

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Together + Hand in hand + In love = indestructible

"flattens like toothpaste" is a new one LOL

"As you wish" HE SAID IT HE SAID IT

I am growing in my appreciation of the movie adaption. I know that for many adaptations, the source material is far to vast to truly do justice within 2 hours, but given the shorter length of this novel, I am yet to hear a major detail that was not addressed in the movie.

Inconceivable!

"I've loved for several hours [...] He closed the door in her face." Beautiful.

"I've loved for several hours [...] He closed the door in her face." Beautiful.

I am too old to have only just watched the movie "Princess Bride," but better late than never!

(Part 2/2) To them them I'll direct them to the following quote by the man himself: "Then there is the other secret. There isn’t any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. A writer should know too much."

(Part 1/2) Now, this is a slice of life that I can get behind. It's an unfamiliar scenario to me, and I love the sense quietness that this book has. I've noticed a number of reviews who seem to digging for themes.

I have been planning to check this out - what better than an audio book narrated by the warm deep voice of Mr. Bennet (2005), THE Donald Sutherland.