The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in Reading the Classics

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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May 05, 2013 Cheryl rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2014-tbr-challenge

I really did love this story...although I was confused by why Hugo spent so many pages on so much historical detail of the city of Paris and even on Notre Dame, itself. I am sure if I put just a little more effort into it...perhaps reading the novel again...I would see how he used these things as types of the characters in the novel. Sadly, I just was not willing to go there in analysis. So many compares and contrasts in the novel. I do have to admit that I was hoping for some other outcome to t ...more

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Apr 01, 2010 Bogdan rated it really liked it

Shelves: french-lit

A great novel that it is another great example of romanticism, as most works of Victor Hugo. I liked very much that the book is a glimpse into 15th century Paris and it's inhabitants. Pierre Gringoire was the character I liked most.
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Oct 10, 2017 Mturney1010 rated it really liked it

I really did enjoy this book, and I'm so glad I finally read it. It wasn't like my beloved Les Miserables and seemed overly long in certain parts (where Les Mis did not) but I loved it nonetheless. ...more

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