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ellie_wynnn 's review for:
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
beautiful, but so so long.
i started this book a year ago, got stuck halfway after a month or so, ended up in a huge reading slump, pulled myself out of the reading slump with books for work and the last few unread books on my shelf, picked les mis up again, and finally finished it!!!
i remember very little about the first half. javert’s last appearance was by far the best section in the book. and the book ended well, tying the it all together finally. but gosh, the length. i am proud of myself for getting through it but it was excessive. some of hugo’s tangents were fun (like the one on the parisian sewers), but some i just couldn’t bring myself to care about. but i knew i was only going to read this book once, so i read each page.
i knew very little about the french revolution before reading this book, and while i learned that it seemed to be a lot longer and complicated than i imagined, this book taught me surprisingly little about the history of it given how many side tangents of parisian history that hugo went on. i’m lost in that regard.
also… marius and cosette annoyed me a bit :(. i wanted to love them but i really just don’t agree with hugo’s vision of love and relationship. what do you mean they fell in love without ever speaking to each other? what do you mean that their love for each other meant that they don’t need to talk about big things together? why is cosette’s role in this relationship just to be an image of purity and goodness?
i started this book a year ago, got stuck halfway after a month or so, ended up in a huge reading slump, pulled myself out of the reading slump with books for work and the last few unread books on my shelf, picked les mis up again, and finally finished it!!!
i remember very little about the first half. javert’s last appearance was by far the best section in the book. and the book ended well, tying the it all together finally. but gosh, the length. i am proud of myself for getting through it but it was excessive. some of hugo’s tangents were fun (like the one on the parisian sewers), but some i just couldn’t bring myself to care about. but i knew i was only going to read this book once, so i read each page.
i knew very little about the french revolution before reading this book, and while i learned that it seemed to be a lot longer and complicated than i imagined, this book taught me surprisingly little about the history of it given how many side tangents of parisian history that hugo went on. i’m lost in that regard.
also… marius and cosette annoyed me a bit :(. i wanted to love them but i really just don’t agree with hugo’s vision of love and relationship. what do you mean they fell in love without ever speaking to each other? what do you mean that their love for each other meant that they don’t need to talk about big things together? why is cosette’s role in this relationship just to be an image of purity and goodness?