Discussion:Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

October 2004 book of the month

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

All discussions related to this book should be in this thread. To keep readability of posts, there is no need to use spoilers in your posts unless you feel it is absolutely necessary. Anyone reading the posts in this particular thread must be aware that they may contain spoilers about the plot and characters of the book.

~BK

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

Originally posted by yerssot
good idea... I thought you did already 😖

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

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 😱

Originally posted by m!$hA
i haven't read any of these books 😮
but ive seen the play for les miserables, and it was pretty good so i voted that 😊

Originally posted by m!$hA
ah yes like i said, i havnt read the book, but seen the play. from what i gathered, very good, but very sad cry

Originally posted by m!$hA
i havnt read the book, but seen the play 😛

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.