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jackaroni_with_cheese 's review for:
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
So I listened to this on audio and I feel like I should just copy and paste my text commentary to my husband about it:
Me: So the story of notre dame is pretty good. But then we fucking take a side note rant on the fucking buildings! If there's an abridged copy, they fucking cut out the stupid rantings over buildings.
We just listed like 15 things that go in buildings.
Same day: Oh my god we are still talking about BUILDINGS! Quasimodo has tried to kidnap Esmerelda with Frollo, Esmerelda just saved some dude from being hanged and now they're married even though he's 35 and she's 16, She's met and fallen in love with Phoebus, and we are TALKING ABOUT BUILDINGS! The ART of buildings! How statues work! How religion works IN buildings!
Oh my god. NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE VIEW FROM NOTRE DAME! Walking up the stairs and what you'd see from the top! A WHOLE CHAPTER!
He blue balls his own story. Cool shit starts happening and then all of a sudden Buzz Killington comes in and starts talking about buildings.
I'm wondering if I could skip this chapter.
We are on "book" 3, STILL on chapter 2, STILL rambling about whatever. I don't even know anymore
I skipped it. I couldn't listen to him ramble on about buildings.
Husband: no! You’re gonna miss something!
Me: too late and I didn’t
The next day:
OH MY GOD! He PROMISED to be going back to Esmerelda and Pierre and WE'RE DESCRIBING CELLS! A full fucking chapter. Now we're describing women's clothing to introduce three women who knew someone in one of the cells.
We just side tangented about a fat kid with cake.
I don't think I can finish this.
I've skipped again, and I think I'm back to Quasimodo
The NEXT day:
Not a single character in this book realizes how creepy Frollo is. And Hunchback of Notre Dame isn't a very good name for the book since I'm 55% in and Quasimodo has barely been in it. And Phoebus is a fuckin idiot. Like the biggest fuckin idiot. I wanna kick him in his dick.
Phoebus is creepy as shit too. He's scum. And Esmeralda is 16 and they all wanna bang her. He's gross.
So Frollo stabbed Phoebus. And then ran away and now Esmerelda is in jail, as a confessed witch and murderer after being tortured. And now Frollo has broken into her cell to tell her about how much he loves her. The narrator is breathing really heavily and weird and I'm suuuuuper uncomfortable.
He just said to her "take pity on me. Thou deemest thyself miserable, alas thou knowest not what misery is."
Fucking diiiiick. He's so gross!
The day after that:
So Frollo found out that Esmerelda is alive and in the church. She keeps telling him no. And he's still trying to rape her cause "he loves her"
So at 84% we are rambling on about Louie XI... We're describing the leather chair he's sitting in. We also listed every employee and how much they make working for him.
I have TWO HOURS LEFT! The gypsies are fighting to save Esmerelda, and WE. ARE. STILL. WITH. LOUIE XI!
FROLLO IS THE FUCKING WORST. He's so disgusting! He’s just the worst, I can’t even describe it.
So there you have it. My side of the text conversation about Hunchback with my husband. I did finish it. And talked to him on the phone about the last 10%. His biggest takeaway is “you have to listen to Les Mis now. I have to know.” Cool cool. Cool.
Me: So the story of notre dame is pretty good. But then we fucking take a side note rant on the fucking buildings! If there's an abridged copy, they fucking cut out the stupid rantings over buildings.
We just listed like 15 things that go in buildings.
Same day: Oh my god we are still talking about BUILDINGS! Quasimodo has tried to kidnap Esmerelda with Frollo, Esmerelda just saved some dude from being hanged and now they're married even though he's 35 and she's 16, She's met and fallen in love with Phoebus, and we are TALKING ABOUT BUILDINGS! The ART of buildings! How statues work! How religion works IN buildings!
Oh my god. NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE VIEW FROM NOTRE DAME! Walking up the stairs and what you'd see from the top! A WHOLE CHAPTER!
He blue balls his own story. Cool shit starts happening and then all of a sudden Buzz Killington comes in and starts talking about buildings.
I'm wondering if I could skip this chapter.
We are on "book" 3, STILL on chapter 2, STILL rambling about whatever. I don't even know anymore
I skipped it. I couldn't listen to him ramble on about buildings.
Husband: no! You’re gonna miss something!
Me: too late and I didn’t
The next day:
OH MY GOD! He PROMISED to be going back to Esmerelda and Pierre and WE'RE DESCRIBING CELLS! A full fucking chapter. Now we're describing women's clothing to introduce three women who knew someone in one of the cells.
We just side tangented about a fat kid with cake.
I don't think I can finish this.
I've skipped again, and I think I'm back to Quasimodo
The NEXT day:
Not a single character in this book realizes how creepy Frollo is. And Hunchback of Notre Dame isn't a very good name for the book since I'm 55% in and Quasimodo has barely been in it. And Phoebus is a fuckin idiot. Like the biggest fuckin idiot. I wanna kick him in his dick.
Phoebus is creepy as shit too. He's scum. And Esmeralda is 16 and they all wanna bang her. He's gross.
So Frollo stabbed Phoebus. And then ran away and now Esmerelda is in jail, as a confessed witch and murderer after being tortured. And now Frollo has broken into her cell to tell her about how much he loves her. The narrator is breathing really heavily and weird and I'm suuuuuper uncomfortable.
He just said to her "take pity on me. Thou deemest thyself miserable, alas thou knowest not what misery is."
Fucking diiiiick. He's so gross!
The day after that:
So Frollo found out that Esmerelda is alive and in the church. She keeps telling him no. And he's still trying to rape her cause "he loves her"
So at 84% we are rambling on about Louie XI... We're describing the leather chair he's sitting in. We also listed every employee and how much they make working for him.
I have TWO HOURS LEFT! The gypsies are fighting to save Esmerelda, and WE. ARE. STILL. WITH. LOUIE XI!
FROLLO IS THE FUCKING WORST. He's so disgusting! He’s just the worst, I can’t even describe it.
So there you have it. My side of the text conversation about Hunchback with my husband. I did finish it. And talked to him on the phone about the last 10%. His biggest takeaway is “you have to listen to Les Mis now. I have to know.” Cool cool. Cool.