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Jan 17, 2019
midnightfaerie
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One of my favorite stories of all time. As Larry the Cucumber would say "I laughed, I cried, it moved me, Bob." It has everything in it: suspense, love, romance, war, honor, drama, betrayal, among a myriad of others. Eponine was my favorite character by far, and honestly, Coset annoyed me a bit. I think for everything she'd been through, she could have had a little more depth. Out of all the classics I have read, and this is definitely one, this is in my top 5 of all time. I had already seen the
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Wow. I’m speechless. I also can’t remember the last time a novel brought me to tears like that. Waterfall! Fabulous book. 100% worth turning all 1,460 pages and risking early arthritis in your wrists. I seriously almost want to begin it all over again right now. Heads up, Hugo digresses a lot (Waterloo, ‘argot’ and the Parisian Sewers...), it’s a very political book and there is A LOT of misery. Don’t watch the movies or the plays, do yourself a service and read the book.
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