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Re:H.L. Mencken Reviews the Great Gatsby (1925) by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:46PM (#34099940)
My sixth grade teacher made us read The Hobbit.

The rest is history. I'm a voracious reader of "junky" fantasy books.

But Mencken was a real wordsmith -albeit a really, really cynical one.

> and, under it all, the simple sentimentality of a somewhat sclerotic fat woman.

Re:H.L. Mencken Reviews the Great Gatsby (1925) by aidenn0 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @10:20PM (#34102012)
My dad read me The Hobbit as a bedtime story starting from kindergarten. It was the first non-picture book I ever read.