What are you reading the week of June 29, 2014?

[TexasProgresive]

2. The Psychotechnic League

I finished The Hobbit and listened to the entire Lord of the Rings in audio. I know realize what I found so wrong with the Desolation of Smaug. J.R.R. Tolkein constructed both stories structured on what Joseph Campbell called the monomyth, the journey of the hero. There is one hero in The Hobbit, Bilbo Babbins. He doesn't start out as anyone idea of a hero, but he grows into the role through the support of Gandolf and facing trials where he finds out that there is more to him than appears.

The movie is completely divorced from this aspect of the story. It is so out of focus will Bilbo a sidebar in his own story. George Lucas should have had his hand in the Hobbit films. He understood the hero's journey.

I am still waiting on the 3rd Last Policeman novel. I started yesterday to read Poul Anderson's The Psychotechnic League and when I finish that I will read In the Woods by Tana French.