Your Thoughts of Les Miserables

[Diane]

I first read this as a Classic Comic ( which I wish were still around - got much of my love of literature from them) Named one of my dolls Cosette.
Loved reading the novel when I got older - and have watched every screen adaptation - my favorite being the French on with Gerard Depardieu (sp?) I thing because he seems to me to be the ultimate incarnation of the count.
Also saw the play on Broadway 3 timesl

[Paula]

Very fond of the book, but I only read it as an adult, after 3 years in France. Diane, I agree about Classics Illustrated comics--especially re Moby Dick and also 2 Years before the Mast, back in highschool--but I didn't really connect to or much remember (except the jumping from the ship mast and the sewer scene) the comic version of this one.
I loved the musical---but of the films, pieces of diffferent versions seemed best. I mean, Hopkins, Depardieu, a couple of others were, in their very different roles in different versions, each sensational but I've not yet seen one that fully shows the book.

[Diane]

Perhaps I like the French version because I spent month in Paris and know a (very) little bit of the language.

[Richard]

I read the unabridged version in the original translation, and I consider it to be the best book I ever read. No person is better than Hugo in stringing together sentences in such a way that you feel compelled to read them again and again out loud to savor them.

[Katie]

Loved it but had a hard time getting through it not going to lie. Totally worth the read though! i cried, i laughed, i got angry... got bored.. you name it. I loved this story and would gladly read it again when i'm done with my list.