![]() Since Hugo is awesome - apparently that is what is says on his headstone: "Awesome" - I will take the blame for having some fault during the reading of Les Misérables. Unlike Tolstoy, in War and Peace, I was not so riveted during the other chapters of the story. So, The main story was kick-ass and in these sections I was hard pressed to put the book down. Hugo, in using this device, managed to not wholly annoy me. Do you want to remove all your recent searches All recent searches will be deleted. I will say that when I come across coincidences while I am reading fiction, it bugs the crap out of me. Los Miserables - capitulo 3 parte 5 Final. Reason b) all of the coincidences used to advance the plot were hard to swallow. Somehow, Hugo wasn't holding my attention in a lot of the passages that were away from the main action of the story. I like reading history and observations of society, plus I am generally a curious cat. Umm, so.as with War and Peace, how the heck do you review a novel that is part of the fabric of Western society a book that has been around so long and was written by an author so esteemed as to have a reputation that proceeds the reading? Yeah, I don't know either.I will say that I assigned a one-star deduction (no, I am not the Russian judge, though I am definitely partial to Russian literature, but I digress) for two reasons: a) some of the commentary, while relevant to the plot, meandered longer than was interesting - in most cases - for my liking. ![]()
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