This book disappointed me. It meandered away from the plot too frequently and for too long to keep me interested a story that I otherwise might have enjoyed. Every time I found the plot pulling me in, Hugo delved off into 100 pages of 18th century French arcana and lost me completely.
I had to re-read Les Miserables. I fell in love with the story on the first read, but not the language. Having seen a few adaptations on stage and screen in the few years since my first read of the book, it has not lost any of its original appeal but I noticed that in all the adaptations I was dr...
This is the greatest literary accomplishment of my life! All 1400+ pages! And it was all worth it. Honestly as I was nearing the end I didn't think I would make it, but the next to last chapter is what made everything worth it. I was bawling like crazy. I've never felt this way about a book before. ...
"The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it." Film 2012 - could have done without hathaway but Sacha and Helena Bonham-Carter were fantastic!
Finally Finished!!! Whew. This is a really good book, but Hugo does go off into tangents. What was he thinking when he wrote about the street slang for example? He goes off on these tangents and I have only found one or two of them to contribute anything to the main stories of Jean Valjean, Cosette...
I'm pretty excited to read this book but I refuse to read the free kindle edition. The kindle edition is an abridged version of the story and on Amazon it fails to mention that. I have to wait until I find an unabridged copy.
It feels as though it’s such an accomplishment to have read Les Misérables. It is a very big book which I have had for about 14 years but never read. I tried once but only got as far as 20 pages or so, embarrassingly, and I have to admit, even this time, the reading was not free of struggles. Wit...
After watching the movie and despite the large amount of pages this book has, I feel the need to read this book. When I have that strong feeling of intuition with books, it's wise to answer to it. So I will take on the challenge this enormous book forms and read it soon. I do have to read a few book...
The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to ...
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