Comments | lykaios: how apporpriate (and here an amendment: I cannae spell)

lykaios

how apporpriate (and here an amendment: I cannae spell)

Nov 16, 2007 06:17

I don't want to overexcite anyone but there is a real possibility that today I am going to finish that behemoth, that 1222-page monster, that obscure compendium of all the French Revolution(s)'(s) greatest hits, full of twists and turns like the 128-mile Parisian sewer; that story with beaucoup de side characters whose life histories are divulged ( Read more... )

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kakebuke November 16 2007, 18:12:58 UTC

I'M NOT SURE I EVEN STARTED THAT ONE.

lykaios November 17 2007, 01:23:22 UTC

What's your excuse, Frenchie?!

kakebuke November 18 2007, 21:29:19 UTC

I got nothing. I dislike Hugo's massive prose. JE SUIS UNE MECREANTE. :>

lykaios November 19 2007, 02:42:30 UTC

I decided I really dislike his massive prose, too. So unnecessary. I don't care if that's just how people DID novels back then, I will have no part of it.

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penelopeblack November 17 2007, 08:16:58 UTC

Wow, that's awesome! I read about half of it nearly two years ago and then the project I was reading it for fell apart and so did my time to do so. I would definitely like to start again though. Les Mis is my second favorite musical and the only one I've seen live, so I have a special attachment to it. :D

lykaios November 18 2007, 03:13:39 UTC

It's quite the investment. I started reading it for the first time when I was 11 or so. At that time, it was hard enough for me to keep the thread of the plot itself, much less grasp at anything deeper. Which is not to say that this time around I fell down gasping at the deep philosophical significance he seemed to want to impart with everything, even and especially sewers...

I'm very curious about the musical. I know many are fans. I have a hard time imagining what such a thing would be like, because I've only ever been exposed to the book and one fairly lame movie adaptation.

penelopeblack November 20 2007, 04:48:17 UTC

The musical's pretty awesome. I think they kind of get rid of a lot of the random characters and make the story into one big arc about Valjean's journey (and Marius and Cosette and Javert and Eponine too, of course). ;) Which movie adaptation? I've only seen the one with Liam Neeson.