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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bento" data-source="post: 4722461" data-attributes="member: 36597">I finished reading The Hobbit to my eight year old son about three weeks ago. We started it last year, and while it picked up quickly, we lost steam around the time the party got to Beorn's home. We re-started around winter break and made it through to the end, I found the second half went slower than I remembered reading as a kid. While I was intimidated by the length of the songs/poems, I found the rythm quite easy to get into. The most difficult part was the long, run-on sentences. My son would sometimes ask me a question while I was in mid-sentence and I had trouble re-finding where I left off at. Speaking of reading as a kid, I read it about age 11 with the 1970s hard cover edition that included the animated movie stills. I consider the book a personal crucible of reading. Before then I could never sustain interest in a novel and I remember renewing it several times to keep at it. Although the pictures (and memories of the cartoon) were somewhat of a crutch, I was able to finding the patience in myself to read something this good. Since then I found reading easier and more enjoyable. I'm glad I was able to share this experience with my son.</blockquote>