Paging darsy & hard sci-fi buffs

In article <tMJ8pQAPnAYHFwD3.DeleteThis@auvache.force9.co.uk>, steve auvache wrote:
> In article <h5jvl3993ka28ctkjj7u6ddbam93cu73tm.DeleteThis@4ax.com>, Pip <gingerblok
> eNOSPAM.DeleteThis@NOSPAMgmail.com> writes
>>On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:52:48 -0000, "Simian"

>>of The Hobbit is, as I was presented with it at the end of a school
>>year, when they still did things like that. 39 years ago.
>
> I didn't read the hobbit until I was in my 30's which was 20 something
> years ago and I don't have a copy of it. I do though have the three

I first read the LoTR when aged 11 (about 1976) but didn't read The
Hobbit until much later (in my 20's).

I'm not greatly a fan of The Hobbit - clearly a kids book. I tend more
to the Silmarillion end of the Tolkien spectrum.

Phil.

--
Phil Launchbury, IT PHB
'I'm training the bats that live in my cube
to juggle mushrooms'

darsy wrote:
>
> I liked all of the "Fall Revolution" series with the exception of "The
> Sky Road".

Ah, right, I think I was so disappointed with the Engines Of Light
series the I didn't buy The Cassini Division or Sky Road.