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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
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I loved this book in College. Dark and gothic. Talk about alienation, this book got that right and one of the most memorable characters. The ultimate alienation story.
Obra de arte, no hay palabras para describir cuanto me ha conmovido...
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
tense
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
I’ve decided to read this book after finishing Les Miserables, as I was completely fascinated by it.
Here, as well as in Les Mis, I had a hard time to go through the first 50-70 pages. Victor Hugo focused on telling his view on people behaving poorly to architecture and historical buildings by trying to ‘redecorate’ them.
While reading this I found that it was lacking something Les Mis had, but I couldn’t exactly point out what - the depth of characters. However, the story itself is much more dynamical and easier to read, as author didn’t drown us in other topics that aren’t really important to the storyline like he knows to. He showed us how world is small once again.
Honestly a great book.
Then, as I happen to have a Disney book The Huncback of Notre Dame which I hadn’t taken a look at for a long time, I decided to see the difference. I laughed out loud and long.
Here, as well as in Les Mis, I had a hard time to go through the first 50-70 pages. Victor Hugo focused on telling his view on people behaving poorly to architecture and historical buildings by trying to ‘redecorate’ them.
While reading this I found that it was lacking something Les Mis had, but I couldn’t exactly point out what - the depth of characters. However, the story itself is much more dynamical and easier to read, as author didn’t drown us in other topics that aren’t really important to the storyline like he knows to. He showed us how world is small once again.
Honestly a great book.
Then, as I happen to have a Disney book The Huncback of Notre Dame which I hadn’t taken a look at for a long time, I decided to see the difference. I laughed out loud and long.
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1345971.html[return][return]I love Les Miserables, both the novel and the show (NB to those who know only the latter - Gavroche is the Thenardiers' son and therefore Eponine's sister), and of course everyone knows the stereotype of the Hunchback, so I was looking forward to reading this. It's a novel of biting social commentary, though set far in the past (1483); the innocent Esmeralda is exploited, persecuted and condemned by the ruling classes, her only defenders the unreliable denizens of the underworld and a disabled bell-ringer. (And her pet goat.) It starts awfully slowly - Hugo takes a very long time to clear his throat, as it were - but the characters are largely engaging, and the action accelerates towards the climax. Knowing that it had been made into a Disney film, which presumably must have a happy ending though I haven't seen it, I was in a state of considerable suspense as to how Hugo would resolve the situation and save the central characters.[return][return]It hadn't occurred to me that Disney might have changed the story, so the ending came as a rather brutal shock.[return][return]I must say that I still think Les Miserables is the better book, but Notre Dame de Paris is very interesting in the way it takes a lot of the same themes and puts them together with rather different effect.
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes