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Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Start date: April 1, 2020

Finish date: June 30, 2020

Discussion: LONG READS

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What Members Thought

Feb 22, 2018 Jim Townsend rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Wow. Or is that most sacred excrement? On my fourth attempt, I finished this Fall River Press/Barnes & Noble hardcover, published in 2012 presumably to commemorate the sesquicentennial (150-year anniversary) of the novel's original 1862 appearance. It crams the 1,463-page mass-market paperback edition into 908 pages of tiny print, the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean, as well as that of the massive underclass everywhere about which nobody cares. The only reasons I didn't give this greatest of al ...more

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Nov 24, 2010 Kevin Xu rated it it was amazing

good book

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Jan 22, 2020 Angelena rated it it was amazing

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2020 PopSugar Reading Challenge: A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics (Paris)

How do I even begin to review this masterpiece? I've read so many other eloquent and articulate reviews that I can't give it the justice that it wholeheartedly deserves.

I have loved the musical for many years and I am so happy that I was finally able to read the book that started a worldwide phenomenon after being so intimidated by it. The translation I have is actually much easier to read than I was expec ...more

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