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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
This whole thing could have been 200 or less pages and it would not have made a difference to the content. I now understand why somebody would want to read an abridged version of a book. My enjoyment of it would have increased drastically, however. There were so many points in this book where I just debated giving up or where I just skim read until actual plot was happening.
Look, yes, some of the stuff was mildly interesting but if I have to trudge through 200+ pages of pure dog shite in order to get to the interesting stuff then even if it's written by Stephen King nothing is exciting enough for me to give it more than 1 star. The best things in the book is the relationship with Claude and Quasimodo and the scene with the deaf judge. That's really it. And for the deaf judge scene I still had to trudge through five pages of pointless description just to get to that entertaining scene.
Please. If this is how Hugo writes then I really am regretting my purchase of Les Mis.
Look, yes, some of the stuff was mildly interesting but if I have to trudge through 200+ pages of pure dog shite in order to get to the interesting stuff then even if it's written by Stephen King nothing is exciting enough for me to give it more than 1 star. The best things in the book is the relationship with Claude and Quasimodo and the scene with the deaf judge. That's really it. And for the deaf judge scene I still had to trudge through five pages of pointless description just to get to that entertaining scene.
Please. If this is how Hugo writes then I really am regretting my purchase of Les Mis.