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A review by brandidean
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
4.0
That took awhile! (Three two-week checkout periods of the audiobook, to be specific. With a long wait between the first and second.)
I mostly liked it. At least the parts that were a story. I don’t necessarily need pages on the history of the Paris sewer for someone to escape into the sewer. But I didn’t entirely hate those parts … Well. I hated the essay on slang by the time it was done. But overall I didn’t hate the digressions. There was some good stuff in some of them. And the writing was so pretty through the whole thing. But I really did love the story … up until the end. In the end, I didn’t quite buy that Mariuse would be so heartless and Cosette so thoughtless. And Jean got to be a little much with the self recrimination, too. But the rest of the story was lovely. It could have been quite a bit shorter, but it was lovely.
I mostly liked it. At least the parts that were a story. I don’t necessarily need pages on the history of the Paris sewer for someone to escape into the sewer. But I didn’t entirely hate those parts … Well. I hated the essay on slang by the time it was done. But overall I didn’t hate the digressions. There was some good stuff in some of them. And the writing was so pretty through the whole thing. But I really did love the story … up until the end. In the end, I didn’t quite buy that Mariuse would be so heartless and Cosette so thoughtless. And Jean got to be a little much with the self recrimination, too. But the rest of the story was lovely. It could have been quite a bit shorter, but it was lovely.