Like most people born in the 1980s/1990s, my first introduction to this story was through the Disney film, which is a rather loose adaptation, let's say. I had been on a bit of a Disney kick back in October, and decided to read this after realising just how good it was.However, having differences fr...
Talk about being seduced by a classic. I was really not enjoying this book at first, but slowly it grew on me. Notre-Dame de Paris, or "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" only becomes exciting in the last third of the book or so, but the first few hundred pages are a long, slow build-up that demands your ...
This was difficult going. As ever with Hugo, there's an awful lot of very detaild description of things that are, of themsleves, quite interesting, but it doesn't half slow plot development. Things seem to happen in bursts with not a lot in the chapters in between. Maybe it took me too long to read ...
Unlike what I thought it would be like, I didn't LOVED the Hunchback of Notre Dame.First, because of the straightforward writing. I respect Victor Hugo very much, but his writing was composed of facts & unending descriptions that made me want scream. Maybe it's because I'm more used to more metaphor...
For the past week I've been listening (or trying to listen) to this Audio CD version of the novel, and I have decided to surrender.I simply can't "get into it." On top of the tedious digressions from the story (it's not until chapter 5 that we meet any of the principals), the reader has an annoying ...
Alex Bulmer's dramatisation of Victor Hugo's novel, in which a Gypsy girl captures the heart of Quasimodo, who lives hidden away in the bell towers of Notre Dame. The tale of love, betrayal and bravery is produced in a collaboration between BBC Radio Drama and Graeae, a disabled-led theatre company....
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