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Actual rating: 4.5 stars, rounded up. It might've been verbose, but it was worth the trudge.
Sometimes books that are considered classics are just old. How they earned their classical status is honestly a mystery. But sometimes you come across a novel that truly deserves its place in the classical canon. Italo Calvino once said that “a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say,” and I think that is the best definition any book could hope to match. Hugo’s magnum opus, Les ...more
Sometimes books that are considered classics are just old. How they earned their classical status is honestly a mystery. But sometimes you come across a novel that truly deserves its place in the classical canon. Italo Calvino once said that “a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say,” and I think that is the best definition any book could hope to match. Hugo’s magnum opus, Les ...more
Aug 27, 2016
Kayla
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Sep 23, 2018
Casey Young
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