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A review by thejeffreyhv
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
4.0
*Deep sigh* That ride was WILD.
This behemoth contains some of the most incomparably beautiful, eloquent prose. By the end, I was in a deep, starry abyss and had no desire to claw my way out, though I was exhausted by the journey therein. The ending itself is a spectacular masterpiece. It is SPECTACULAR, and I feel changed by it.
However, 3.5 stars rounded up to 4. While I get that it’s an epic BEAST of a story, and it is—for me personally, the hours of tangential philosophizing are quite unnecessary. (Why an ENTIRE history of the Parisian sewer system, for that one scene of JV carrying Marius?) The sheer volume of these tangents is my only qualm.
This behemoth contains some of the most incomparably beautiful, eloquent prose. By the end, I was in a deep, starry abyss and had no desire to claw my way out, though I was exhausted by the journey therein. The ending itself is a spectacular masterpiece. It is SPECTACULAR, and I feel changed by it.
However, 3.5 stars rounded up to 4. While I get that it’s an epic BEAST of a story, and it is—for me personally, the hours of tangential philosophizing are quite unnecessary. (Why an ENTIRE history of the Parisian sewer system, for that one scene of JV carrying Marius?) The sheer volume of these tangents is my only qualm.