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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo

Start date: March 1, 2017

Finish date: March 31, 2017

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May 04, 2010 Gaijinmama rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, classics

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

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Apr 16, 2013 Angie rated it really liked it

This book is amazing. AMAZING. I would like to say though that if you are going to attempt to read this then get ready to struggle through the beginning. I was so confused. It starts out in some sort of "mystery" which is a play. I still have no idea why that was even going on. The there is a chapter about what Notre Dame looks like which is a good chapter. But the chapter right after is about what Paris looks like from the top of Notre Dame. And this chapter goes on and on and on. I was ok ... ...more

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Aug 07, 2010 Emma Holtrust rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2010

I'm not a big fan of novels that are marked as "classics". They are often very complicated and tell a boring story.

This one is the first real expection I have read. The proze is amazing, the story is original and mindblowing. Victor Hugo writes in a clear cut way, but with beautiful language. All his characters have good and bad sides and the Notre Dame church ties it all together.

This might be my new favorite novel and I can't wait to read Les Misérables. ...more

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