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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
My friend stared at me when I said I was going to read The Hunchback of Notre Dame and asked how I was going to be able to get through it. Well, I did. There were definitely areas in the book where I wondered if Hugo's seemingly-endless asides would ever end (building description, for one), and others where I wanted to knife Phoebus because Disney was really really nice to him from what I remember. Really he's just a spoiled brat. You could foist some of the fault of that on the times, but Phoebus is a jerk. Quasimodo is interesting, Frollo is fascinating, and Esmeralda's history is pretty clear almost immediately.
I did enjoy the book, in the end, but I think I would enjoy a retelling more than this version.
I did enjoy the book, in the end, but I think I would enjoy a retelling more than this version.