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Title: Better than the movie, better than the book
Review: The majority of work in creating the movie must have been deciding what to discard. They also had to distort much to fit it to their deletions. Reading the book and getting the full experience of it requires complex visualization and spacial organization. Doing this while reading is a tedious task and makes the book a weary tale. Also, without the deliberate effort of performing the various parts, the dialog falls short and it reads as a book meant for children. This masterful performance hits the mark. It couldn't have been told better by ol' Bilbo himself, which is how I think the book was meant to be enjoyed. This has to be the best performance that will ever be. You can even see that some of those in the movie must be guilty of borrowing some of their performance from this one. Get some good pipeweed, and listen to this with a friend!
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