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alannahjrpurslow 's review for:
Notre-Dame de Paris
by Victor Hugo
The translator has done an excellent job of the translation. Of course, Hugo’s writing itself is fantastic. You really feel for the characters; there is a real humanness and empathy to them.
Where the book falls a bit flat for me is in the architecture descriptions and fleshing out of really incidental scenes. I am aware that it is part of the Gothic/Romantic style that he was writing this in, but I feel like some of this “fleshing out” really slows the story’s pace towards the end. Overall, though, worth the read!
Where the book falls a bit flat for me is in the architecture descriptions and fleshing out of really incidental scenes. I am aware that it is part of the Gothic/Romantic style that he was writing this in, but I feel like some of this “fleshing out” really slows the story’s pace towards the end. Overall, though, worth the read!