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Just finished the adventures of Tom Sawyer with my son, we just started the Hobbit.

I read Tom Sawyer in college and remember enjoying it, but it apparently was long enough ago that I forgot many of the plot beats so it was kind of like enjoying it again for the first time.

I've never been a fan of Lord of the rings or Tolkien -- not saying it's bad, rather than that I just was never a fan -- never had access to the books, and I was aware that the movies were very popular and highly regarded, but I ended up watching the trilogy one day with my brother, and it was like the super long director's cut where the last movie was like 7 hours long, and then probably just wasn't a good way to experience that movie. Regardless, I'm pretty interested in seeing how the book plays out. I've got a giant monstrous tome containing all three Lord of the rings novels for when he's a little bit older.

I think The Hobbit is 19 chapters, and as a general rule of thumb I try to do a chapter a week, so whatever I read next day assume I'll be starting it before the end of the year. I'm kind of giving bullfinch's mythology the side eye, apparently it's a really good mythology book.

I know some things are just better in book form. You can't stop for an hour in the middle of a movie to explain the minutae of political relationships between different factions of dwarves or something, but you can do that for a surprising amount of time in a book.

One of my favorite series is called Hell Mode, and each volume is like 400 pages because it goes into such detail about so much stuff that you could make the narrative into an anime but it wouldn't be the same story.