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we won? droolio

ah yes like i said, i havnt read the book, but seen the play. from what i gathered, very good, but very sad cry

I'm afraid that some who are not really into thick or long-explaining books will not like this

thick and long explaining books droolio
maybe i should read it

good idea... I thought you did already

it's just great that he wrote about the french revol in it

ive said about three times that i havnt read the book, but seen the play

though i was very young back then so hardly got it infact i didnt get it at all. i just thought it was about a girl who had troubles with her parents and she dreamed about casles on clouds

you know what a good book is though (ok series) the john marsden, tomorrow series droolio

viola! The french revol!


I forgot to vote. What an ass. I will read this this month tho.

speaking of which yerss, we're on 5 droolio

yeah, wonder who voted...

How did everyone got into contact with this?
by now we established that misha saw the play

I had to read it in french class... age of 10-11 I think

lookie yerss

are you sure you haven't read the book?

when did i say i hadn't?

just curious if you read it, you can say if the play is different from the book

but i have read it

then compare it damnit

but i havnt seen the play

*sigh*
one of us needs to pay attention to what the other writes you know... and it's not you

I really didn't like this book. It was overlong and much too sappy. I can see the how this book can be seen as innovative classic, but I personally didn't like it.

did you see it as just a story or did you go further and tried to understand the underlying critic of the system at that point in time?

oh I understood all that. Like I said, I understand the importance and the political and social commentary it had on that time period, but I don't think it was well done. I just didn't like it, it didn't do anything for me.

what would you have changed or left out?

I definitely wouldn't make it so wordy. He often went off on these tangents about something that barely has to do with the subject, and he should have left that out. And another thing that threw me off is the overly sappy last few pages, or page, rather. You have all these pages of buildup, and then everything important he has to say, he says while dying in like two pages. That just threw me off.

but if he went and didn't get it all on one page, it would have been even longer and you wouldn't have liked that either

then it shouldn't have been that long in the first place. He already wrote10,000,000 pages, what a couple hundred more going to do? Or else, that's how long it felt.

but the idea was that it should be long to show that he builds up a life time after time but that it fails

i don't think his attempt to build a life fails. He earns the love of his daughter, and the respect of many others, and that's all he really wanted.

indeed, but it's still that the inspector hunts him down

then he realizes his fault and commits suicide

ow, now you ruined the fun in the entire book ... I like that

I think it takes guts to redeem yourself after you have done...what was it? 10 years of hunting someone down?

well, we talked about this in class ( I read this for school) What happened was that he realized what he was been doing for his entire life was wrong, but he really couldn't accept that, but he knew he couldn't keep on going the way he was going, because he realized it was wrong. So he committed suicide.

indeed, but I mean, accepting that what you have been doing for your entire life is wrong is not easy so he has to have a great sense to understand that

well it kind of hit him right over the head. It's hard to miss that the person you've been hunting just spared your life.

but that doesn't mean he's right

wha? what? You said, "indeed, but I mean, accepting that what you have been doing for your entire life is wrong is not easy so he has to have a great sense to understand that." I replied that it was kind of hard not to see he was wrong as Valjean spared his life.

I misunderstood

but it's not cause someone spares your life, that he's automaticly right

but he saw that he was hunting down Valjean and hated him for no reason

it's his job

he definitely went above and beyond what his job called for

that's being passionate huh

it's called being psycho

What is the book about? I've never heard of this book...

no surprise I see