Review of 'The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life' on 'GoodReads'
2 stars
Shallow, incurious applications of 'wisdom' from the shire. The wisdom consists of trite observations that ignore class, culture, and the fact that hobbits are fictional characters made up by one person. I love tolkien and nostalgia as much as the next white nerd, but this book doesn't present anything like why we could or should care about tolkien and his works of fiction beyond that presumed personal love of it.
