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Well, first and foremost, this is not a Disney movie!
The title is a misnomer. The original French title is Notre Dame de Paris and the cathedral itself is the star of this show. The unfortunate hunchback is only in maybe a third of the scenes.
I actually wept at the end of Hugo's Les Misérables ...the book not the musical...so I was expecting the same level of brilliance and connection. It didn't happen. This story was sad and violent and just so terribly unfair, but the characters did not touch ...more
The title is a misnomer. The original French title is Notre Dame de Paris and the cathedral itself is the star of this show. The unfortunate hunchback is only in maybe a third of the scenes.
I actually wept at the end of Hugo's Les Misérables ...the book not the musical...so I was expecting the same level of brilliance and connection. It didn't happen. This story was sad and violent and just so terribly unfair, but the characters did not touch ...more
Le roman se compose de 59 chapitres répartis en onze livres de longueur inégale.
L'intrigue se déroule à Paris en 1482. Les deux premiers livres (I et II) du roman suivent Pierre Gringoire, poète sans le sou.
Le livre III évoque Notre-Dame de Paris, son histoire et ses restaurations mal pensées, puis donne une vision d'ensemble de la ville de Paris telle qu'elle apparaissait à un spectateur médiéval regardant la capitale du haut des tours de la cathédrale. ...more
L'intrigue se déroule à Paris en 1482. Les deux premiers livres (I et II) du roman suivent Pierre Gringoire, poète sans le sou.
Le livre III évoque Notre-Dame de Paris, son histoire et ses restaurations mal pensées, puis donne une vision d'ensemble de la ville de Paris telle qu'elle apparaissait à un spectateur médiéval regardant la capitale du haut des tours de la cathédrale. ...more
Not as good as Les Mis but great nevertheless. Though the passages about medieval Paris architecture may only interest those who adore the city or architecture in general. I personally loved the whole package. The characters are legendary and one of the best ever invented.
Great story and the writing is wonderful...for the time. The book's fault is in its over-descriptiveness. Book Three could have been tossed in my opinion. Fifty pages of description, on how Paris looked then. It dragged and dragged.
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I'll admit I got off to a slow start; the first 45 pages or so left me bored. I set this classic down briefly for another book, then returned to it. Once I did, however, I found myself involved in a page-turner that I had a difficult time putting down. Far be it from me to critique a classic, but this was a fantastic book and one I wish I had read a long time ago. I knew the Disney movie probably messed up quite a bit, but I didn't realize just how much....
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