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Finally Finished!!! Whew. This is a really good book, but Hugo does go off into tangents. What was he thinking when he wrote about the street slang for example? He goes off on these tangents and I have only found one or two of them to contribute anything to the main stories of Jean Valjean, Cosette and Marius.
Victor Hugo must have been one of those authors who got paid by the word because this book is much longer than it needed to be. Sometimes that was fine, this is so well written I don’t care if it goes on forever, other times were more like oh my god this better have a point. Spoiler: it usually doesn’t.
I liked the main story. I even liked some parts that were completely irrelevant to the plot, parts that Hugo wrote in his quest to make the book as long as possible. He goes off topic as soon as t ...more
I liked the main story. I even liked some parts that were completely irrelevant to the plot, parts that Hugo wrote in his quest to make the book as long as possible. He goes off topic as soon as t ...more
A great work but I prefer the Russians.
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