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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
Despite of being written by the same author, The Hunchback of Notre Dame doesn’t feel heartwarming as Les Miserable. That I personally prefer Les Miserable plot-wise.
However, the way Victor Hugo described Notre Dame in great detail made me experiencing time-travel and teleported to Paris. Perhaps, he was writing to show his admiration on the beauty of Notre-Dame rather than serving messages.
Notre-Dame is not merely work of architect, but visitor and specific events that changed its shape making Notre-Dame as we know today. Its location is strategically placed gave harmony to its surrounding. The value of Notre-Dame is not only on its purpose as Cathedral and its shape, but its richness of art and history, combination of all European Era. Indeed the fire that damaged Notre-Dame is such a big loss.
My favorite part of this book is book III where he described Notre-Dame. Nobody can describe Notre-Dame as charming as Victor Hugo!
However, the way Victor Hugo described Notre Dame in great detail made me experiencing time-travel and teleported to Paris. Perhaps, he was writing to show his admiration on the beauty of Notre-Dame rather than serving messages.
Notre-Dame is not merely work of architect, but visitor and specific events that changed its shape making Notre-Dame as we know today. Its location is strategically placed gave harmony to its surrounding. The value of Notre-Dame is not only on its purpose as Cathedral and its shape, but its richness of art and history, combination of all European Era. Indeed the fire that damaged Notre-Dame is such a big loss.
My favorite part of this book is book III where he described Notre-Dame. Nobody can describe Notre-Dame as charming as Victor Hugo!
First time I read Victor Hugo and I quite liked this book.
For those of us who grew up watching the Disney version of this story will be surprised at how dark and grusome this book really is. There were a lot of twists and turns, sort of, that I never knew happened in the original story.
One thing that put me off though, was how Hugo keeps referring to people, places, buildings, history and so forth that happens after the storyline. The story takes place in the 1480s, and Hugo keeps referring to things after this time even when we're in the middle of the "action" in the 1480s. It seems so misplaced and anachronistic, and often put me off the main storyline.
I understand that Hugo perhaps wanted to express something about the main character here; mainly the Notre-Dame itself, and I'd be fine with it if these thoughts were in chapters by themselves, and not within the span of the main timeline.
For those of us who grew up watching the Disney version of this story will be surprised at how dark and grusome this book really is. There were a lot of twists and turns, sort of, that I never knew happened in the original story.
One thing that put me off though, was how Hugo keeps referring to people, places, buildings, history and so forth that happens after the storyline. The story takes place in the 1480s, and Hugo keeps referring to things after this time even when we're in the middle of the "action" in the 1480s. It seems so misplaced and anachronistic, and often put me off the main storyline.
I understand that Hugo perhaps wanted to express something about the main character here; mainly the Notre-Dame itself, and I'd be fine with it if these thoughts were in chapters by themselves, and not within the span of the main timeline.
The Disney movie did not do a good job of preparing me for this.
the elements of tragic irony are beautiful and brilliant in The hunchback of notre dame. the writing is beautiful in a good few chapters and the descriptions of the setting, architecture and other things are also wonderful - you can clearly see that its a very well researched book. that being said, most of the characters are only mildly interesting as they lack depth and the book itself flatlines a lot past the halfway mark. i found myself struggling to finish it simply because i was losing interest. its unnecessarily long and overly descriptive in many chapters. the novel had many enjoyable and unenjoyable aspects and overall, i did enjoy a lot of it but its not something id rush to recommend.
It's an amazing book. So different from the Disney movie. I had this book in my book cabinet for a long while, unread, until I saw footage of the Broadway Hunchback of Notre Dame musical. Inspired by it (and its gorgeous soundtrack) I decided to start reading the book. Never regretted it!
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
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:
Complicated
Even in spite of the numerous superfluous descriptions, I really enjoyed this book. It speaks for itself that it was able to keep my attention for 560 pages and 2 months, but this book grabs you by the guts and I love it.
Really really fantastic wow, just about everything I wanted from this story. I’ve always been kinda haunted by the Disney adaptation and this added that extra touch of darkness I think I was itching for. GREAT!
It was a good book. Definitely could be shortened because it dragged on in some places, but the story was great. I found some of the plot lines disturbing and the story was surprisingly dark, definitely a tragedy, but filled with some humor particularly from Pierre Gringoire. The story was not about Quasimodo, the original names Our Lady of Paris and Notre-Dame de Paris are much more fitting.
challenging
dark
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