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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is the first book of Victor Hugo that I have read and all I can say is "wowza". What a complex, beautiful, disturbing, and heartbreaking tale. Only once has a classic captured my heart and mind so completely (Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice); I didn't think I'd ever find another I adored as much but it's finally happened. Disney changed this novel so much that I'm almost saddened by the times I watched it and thought what a great musical it was. Haha younger me really thought it was a musical for the longest time until I was 14 years old.
I'll be honest and say you must be prepared for some boring parts. Victor Hugo was a big lover of Notre Dame's architecture and Paris so there are many passages and dedicated to detailed descriptions of both. The first 100 pages weren't the best either but you do get introduced to a couple main characters and see what the Parisians are like. If you get past those parts you get a look into wonderful examples of philosophy and psychology through the characters and what they live through. You can't help but recognize yourself and others in the characters at times, which is kind of scary and off-putting at times since nobody wants to be like Archdeacon Claude Frollo.
My overall rating would be 4.5 since the boring parts weren't my favorite but I think all were necessary in making points or helping to know the characters more. I can't believe I waited so long to read this book. Everyone needs to at some point in their life.
I'll be honest and say you must be prepared for some boring parts. Victor Hugo was a big lover of Notre Dame's architecture and Paris so there are many passages and dedicated to detailed descriptions of both. The first 100 pages weren't the best either but you do get introduced to a couple main characters and see what the Parisians are like. If you get past those parts you get a look into wonderful examples of philosophy and psychology through the characters and what they live through. You can't help but recognize yourself and others in the characters at times, which is kind of scary and off-putting at times since nobody wants to be like Archdeacon Claude Frollo.
My overall rating would be 4.5 since the boring parts weren't my favorite but I think all were necessary in making points or helping to know the characters more. I can't believe I waited so long to read this book. Everyone needs to at some point in their life.
This is such a sad and lyrical book. The writing is marvelous and it does a beautiful job of showcasing different types of people and morality and one of the most complex "villains" I have ever read. If isn't flawless but it is a beautiful book.
adventurous
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Thousand Popes! I remember March 13, 2013. Where might I have been? Oh, I was working at the copper mine for a contractor, the first labor experience that I had; I rly loved living there with dad, getting my hands dirty and my feet wet, waking up at 6:00 AM, commuting a half hour on old country roads, to park in this large dirt lot, get on a bus and go to the worksite. My commutes were full of, say, music! I was nothing but a laborer. I came home to play on my computer, and Pope Francis was being elected. Dad watched a lot of news, and a little Stephen Colbert… So I remember smoke on television, the Vatican’s top people privately electing the new Sheriff. & the rest is…
“Hurray for gay life! I am a real madman!”
I’m still attached to Esmeralda. She faded from my life, irrevocably, never to be heard from. Yet, those years of innocence I cherish for the no less truest friend I made. That is to say, on the computer. Way back, before cellphones, before Facebook, even. I stake a claim on having been active in the community longer than a great deal of people, a percentage of folks that can’t remember Xanga, Gaiaonline, Deviantart, &tc. This was exciting back then. Doing it all by phone is dull, frivolous, its like just absorption of the self, doom scrolling and swiping and barely any coding, personalizing, there’s hardly even active discussion boards to be found! The 90s are dead in the water, but I’ve actually a slight phobia of 90’s music. High School movies cringe me out.
“Everyone knows that great wealth is not acquired by letters, and that the most accomplished writers have not always a warm hearth in winter time.”
Victor Hugo was one of those authors, you read 1 (One) of his books. Then there’s only one more to read. & I ofc read Les Miserables, and sang in the choir. ‘Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise!’ How is the time since, like carving a boat from a soap bar, whittling out slivers of memories, the Disney movie is nostalgic, just remembering the time they threw tomatoes at Quasimodo. & The Anthony Hopkins flick weren’t too bad. As for the book, you might like to read about it yourself. Quite, eh, Hamartic.
“Hurray for gay life! I am a real madman!”
I’m still attached to Esmeralda. She faded from my life, irrevocably, never to be heard from. Yet, those years of innocence I cherish for the no less truest friend I made. That is to say, on the computer. Way back, before cellphones, before Facebook, even. I stake a claim on having been active in the community longer than a great deal of people, a percentage of folks that can’t remember Xanga, Gaiaonline, Deviantart, &tc. This was exciting back then. Doing it all by phone is dull, frivolous, its like just absorption of the self, doom scrolling and swiping and barely any coding, personalizing, there’s hardly even active discussion boards to be found! The 90s are dead in the water, but I’ve actually a slight phobia of 90’s music. High School movies cringe me out.
“Everyone knows that great wealth is not acquired by letters, and that the most accomplished writers have not always a warm hearth in winter time.”
Victor Hugo was one of those authors, you read 1 (One) of his books. Then there’s only one more to read. & I ofc read Les Miserables, and sang in the choir. ‘Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise!’ How is the time since, like carving a boat from a soap bar, whittling out slivers of memories, the Disney movie is nostalgic, just remembering the time they threw tomatoes at Quasimodo. & The Anthony Hopkins flick weren’t too bad. As for the book, you might like to read about it yourself. Quite, eh, Hamartic.