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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
adventurous
sad
medium-paced
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Very interesting to discover the real version of the story! I’ve choose this book for school and I was the only one to have choose a big book of more that 500 pages but I liked it!
Victor Hugo really decided to infodump about the history of Parisian infrastructure and architecture in the middle of his narrative.
Avec toute sincérité Victor Hugo est parmi mes écrivains préférés. Sont talent avec les mots et sa capacité de rédiger un roman si puissant en prose m'impressionne de plus qu'il ne m'est possible d'exprimer. Cela étant dit, j'avais hésité à embarquer dans la lecture de ce roman. Tous savent qu'Hugo n'est pas un écrivain qui se retient; s'il est nécessaire d'écrire des milliers de pages pour décrire la presse, il va s'y prendre.
Au cours de ma lecture je ne me suis pas sentie comme si on me faisait perdre mon temps. Même ayant des chapitres pleins et plus contenant des détails qui sembleraient nullement lier à l'histoire de base, tous les passages m'ont touché. Chaque passage contient de l'information pertinent et des événements qui se relient à l'histoire de fiction nous lisons.
Les personnages sont divers, intéressants et compliqués; elles sont honnêtes et réelles. Hugo nous fait part de la vie de divers parisiens et le lecteur à la chance de suivre leur séjour à travers la ville; pendant qu'ils espèrent éviter la persécution, le crime, le scandale et les coups de coeur.
Le roman nous fait part de plusieurs thèmes très difficiles à digérés. Les personnages n'ont pas la vie facile ni vont-ils tous retrouver une belle fin. Cependant, j'ai tellement apprécié l'histoire pour cette raison et pour toutes les autres aspects aussi. Ce livre demeurât l'ultime classique sans compétition.
Au cours de ma lecture je ne me suis pas sentie comme si on me faisait perdre mon temps. Même ayant des chapitres pleins et plus contenant des détails qui sembleraient nullement lier à l'histoire de base, tous les passages m'ont touché. Chaque passage contient de l'information pertinent et des événements qui se relient à l'histoire de fiction nous lisons.
Les personnages sont divers, intéressants et compliqués; elles sont honnêtes et réelles. Hugo nous fait part de la vie de divers parisiens et le lecteur à la chance de suivre leur séjour à travers la ville; pendant qu'ils espèrent éviter la persécution, le crime, le scandale et les coups de coeur.
Le roman nous fait part de plusieurs thèmes très difficiles à digérés. Les personnages n'ont pas la vie facile ni vont-ils tous retrouver une belle fin. Cependant, j'ai tellement apprécié l'histoire pour cette raison et pour toutes les autres aspects aussi. Ce livre demeurât l'ultime classique sans compétition.
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Es hat eine Weile gedauert, dass ich mich daran gewöhnt habe, dass Victor Hugo den Leser immer Mal wieder direkt anspricht. Aber dann fand ich seinen Schreibstil fantastisch.
Es beginnt auch sehr langsam, was damit zusammenhängt, dass ca. 1/3 des Buches für den Plot komplett irrelevant ist und sich hauptsächlich im Beginn des Buches abhandelt. Das hängt natürlich mit der Liebe von Hugo zu Paris und vor allem Notre Dame zusammen.
Meiner Meinung nach ist es ein unglaublich gutes Buch, kein schönes Buch, sehr verstörend, aber wirklich, wirklich gut. Wenn auch etwas vorhersehbar.
Ohne den leider sehr hervorstechenden Gadjé-Rassismus und Ableismus, die dem Plot zugrunde liegen, wären es vlt. sogar 5 Sterne gewesen.
Es beginnt auch sehr langsam, was damit zusammenhängt, dass ca. 1/3 des Buches für den Plot komplett irrelevant ist und sich hauptsächlich im Beginn des Buches abhandelt. Das hängt natürlich mit der Liebe von Hugo zu Paris und vor allem Notre Dame zusammen.
Meiner Meinung nach ist es ein unglaublich gutes Buch, kein schönes Buch, sehr verstörend, aber wirklich, wirklich gut. Wenn auch etwas vorhersehbar.
Ohne den leider sehr hervorstechenden Gadjé-Rassismus und Ableismus, die dem Plot zugrunde liegen, wären es vlt. sogar 5 Sterne gewesen.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Racism
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexism
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
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
I wanted to love this book so much more than I did.
The hunchback of notre dame was a great story, when the actual story was being told. There were many moments where I felt as though I was reading a textbook on the history of Paris rather than a story that takes place in Paris.
The first half of the book the story moved incredibly slow, and was plagued with numerous and at times unnecessary descriptions that left me feeling quite bored.
The second half of the book was what kept me reading the story was able to progress the descriptions eased but provide the perfect amount of description story ratio. Through all its issues I still enjoyed the story although I’m not sure if I will pick up another Victor Hugo book for a while at least.
The hunchback of notre dame was a great story, when the actual story was being told. There were many moments where I felt as though I was reading a textbook on the history of Paris rather than a story that takes place in Paris.
The first half of the book the story moved incredibly slow, and was plagued with numerous and at times unnecessary descriptions that left me feeling quite bored.
The second half of the book was what kept me reading the story was able to progress the descriptions eased but provide the perfect amount of description story ratio. Through all its issues I still enjoyed the story although I’m not sure if I will pick up another Victor Hugo book for a while at least.
Did I enjoy the long passages about how the printing press killed architecture? No.
Did I enjoy the main story? Yes.
I did not really know much about the plot of this book before reading but I really found it fascinating.
Did I enjoy the main story? Yes.
I did not really know much about the plot of this book before reading but I really found it fascinating.
Second Hugo novel I’ve read (the other being Les Mis), and I’m thoroughly impressed. Hugo has a phenomenal way of writing and ripping your heartstrings out over the fate (anakth) of the characters. I also love his style of writing from a god-like perspective, watching as these characters’ lives unfold. The characters write themselves and they are beautifully crafted, their lives intertwined forever.
I absolutely love Hugo’s novels!
I absolutely love Hugo’s novels!
My days of respect for the classic French novelists are definitely coming to a middle.
They are, nearly universally, overwritten garbage with a weak plot and ridiculous situations. I know I’m treading on a lot of people’s toes by saying this but I just can’t fathom why some of these books are considered classics. If somebody wrote this kind of thing today it would be ignored.
The eponymous Hunchback of Notre Dame is described early in the book (about page 100) and, except for a short scene that lasts all of two pages, doesn’t show up again until four hundred pages later. There are long passages of explanations about characters that will never be seen again. The apparent heroes of the story are a troupe of idiots.
Phoebus, the captain of the guard, is so flighty and forgetful of everything and everybody that he might as well not exist at all. Esmerelda is clever and kind and brave until something actually threatens her and then she spends the rest of the book simpering about how Phoebus (who doesn’t even remember that she exists) hasn’t saved her yet. This stupidity filters down to the rest of the characters until the entire book is just a confederacy of dunces acting out a play for the entertainment of the author.
At least in Les Miserables Hugo tries to imbue – after a thousand pages – some sense that there was a point to all the endless description. He even ties it up nicely by making the characters sound like they are only slightly stupid. Alexander Dumas – while falling for many of the same over-explaining flaws – can at least have characters that act intelligently.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame only has a plot because the people are incapable of sentient thought. Many times it felt like the characters had forgotten their lines and were just ad-libbing to cover up until somebody gave them a prompt. I find that this is the worst kind of book to have to read because even the idiot plot that is there is still so sparse that it doesn’t matter.
Instead of reading this go watch the Disney adaptation. They managed to turn the characters into actual people, condense the story into something worth seeing, and pull something wonderful out of this epic mess.
They are, nearly universally, overwritten garbage with a weak plot and ridiculous situations. I know I’m treading on a lot of people’s toes by saying this but I just can’t fathom why some of these books are considered classics. If somebody wrote this kind of thing today it would be ignored.
The eponymous Hunchback of Notre Dame is described early in the book (about page 100) and, except for a short scene that lasts all of two pages, doesn’t show up again until four hundred pages later. There are long passages of explanations about characters that will never be seen again. The apparent heroes of the story are a troupe of idiots.
Phoebus, the captain of the guard, is so flighty and forgetful of everything and everybody that he might as well not exist at all. Esmerelda is clever and kind and brave until something actually threatens her and then she spends the rest of the book simpering about how Phoebus (who doesn’t even remember that she exists) hasn’t saved her yet. This stupidity filters down to the rest of the characters until the entire book is just a confederacy of dunces acting out a play for the entertainment of the author.
At least in Les Miserables Hugo tries to imbue – after a thousand pages – some sense that there was a point to all the endless description. He even ties it up nicely by making the characters sound like they are only slightly stupid. Alexander Dumas – while falling for many of the same over-explaining flaws – can at least have characters that act intelligently.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame only has a plot because the people are incapable of sentient thought. Many times it felt like the characters had forgotten their lines and were just ad-libbing to cover up until somebody gave them a prompt. I find that this is the worst kind of book to have to read because even the idiot plot that is there is still so sparse that it doesn’t matter.
Instead of reading this go watch the Disney adaptation. They managed to turn the characters into actual people, condense the story into something worth seeing, and pull something wonderful out of this epic mess.