A review by maresia
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

4.0

I’ve got a thing for classics, so I knew beforehand I was going to like this book. Overall, I enjoyed reading it. I like his style and his sarcastic comments. However, do we really need to know which king ordered the construction of which wall that no longer exist and didn’t even exist when he was alive and was acting as a fourth wall to a house when the story happened?! Also, is it really necessary to make one endure 30 pages of a dissertation of how the printing killed architecture? Besides, one page would be more than enough to get the idea that Victor Hugo hates half the additions and changes made to the Cathedral throughout the years, therefore dozens of pages explaining it in detail was most definitely not necessary!
Anyway, after his 30 page long dissertations and tangents there’s usually a 5 page summary so skip the his essays and enjoy the story.