Floating down to Camelot

I thought this about The Lord of the Rings the first time I tried to read it. Admittedly I was seven at the time, my parents had got it for me because I'd enjoyed The Hobbit so much. Once it became clear the book wasn't about Bilbo, I was bitterly disappointed and gave up. It was 2 years before I picked it up again and then I was hooked and had to be prised away from it to go to bed or school :-)