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Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

4.16 AVERAGE

nuthatch's review against another edition

5.0

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Wonderful book! But it could have had a little less philosophizing. That is what turns the book into a doorstop.

readingfromfrance's review against another edition

5.0

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Il y a deux types de chapitres dans ce livre. Ceux descriptifs/historiques qui sont selon moi parfois de trop et inutiles.
Et il y a ceux qui relatent le véritable but du livre, l'histoire. Et oh mon dieu quelle histoire.
Je comptais tout le long de ma lecture mettre 4 étoiles a ce livre à cause des chapitres ennuyeux mais le dernier tome m'a juste radicalement faire changer d'avis.
Une magnifique histoire !

breezie_reads's review against another edition

3.5

slow-paced

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At first I was really enveloped in this, but the author went off on tangents and rambled way too often and for way too long for me to stay as interested throughout the rest of the book. This did not have to be as long as it was, and it wouldn't have been if we weren't given pointless information for no reason other to make a one sentence comparison when the tangent was finished and we finally got back to the plot of the book. And I never want to see the word "lugubrious" again. I also only cared about three characters (Fantine, Jean Valjean, and Cosette). Every time we switched to someone else, I just wanted to get through it to go back to one of the three I actually cared about.

birgits_bookshelf's review against another edition

5.0

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Echt gut! Ich liebe den Schreibstil von Victor Hugo :)

gracescanlon's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mika_mikachu's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

chiara_rose's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

shanshanshannon's review against another edition

4.0

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I love the show and I've always wanted to read the book to get the full story. I was not disappointed at all! The translation I read was not clunky and old, like I expected.

The ultimate story of forgiveness and family. Highly recommend!

evuks16's review against another edition

4.0

informative reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mai_oh_mai's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes