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Notre-Dame de Paris
by Victor Hugo
To get the first third-or-so of the tome out of the way, it must be admitted that Hugo desperately needed an editor to sit on his chest and repeatedly punch him in the face until he agreed to drop the mind-numbingly tedious panoramic descriptions of medieval Paris and the painfully overlong architectural digressions.
Once that is out of the way it is plain-sailing with a cast of the most revolting pedophiles, macho-assholes, wastrel alcoholics, and sociopaths Disney ever committed to screen (...I've never seen it, but I'm assuming Disney stayed faithful to the book?). Fave moment has to be Gringoire's choice to save the goat rather than the woman who saved him - and incredibly Gringoire is probably the most palatable male in the whole book (Quasimodo aside). The whole thing is pure madness.
Once that is out of the way it is plain-sailing with a cast of the most revolting pedophiles, macho-assholes, wastrel alcoholics, and sociopaths Disney ever committed to screen (...I've never seen it, but I'm assuming Disney stayed faithful to the book?). Fave moment has to be Gringoire's choice to save the goat rather than the woman who saved him - and incredibly Gringoire is probably the most palatable male in the whole book (Quasimodo aside). The whole thing is pure madness.