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Summary: My New Favorite Book
Review: I just finished this book today, and it is a total masterpiece... It has everything, and paints a perfect (and very, VERY descriptive) picture of Paris in the 1820s-1830s. Even though it is really quite long, you never have to wait very much for something to happen- and everyone in the book is connected with everyone else.If you can understand French, then this book would probably be even better, because it has a lot of songs and poems in French, including the last few lines of the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who isn't afraid to read a longish book- it isn't even that hard to read, because once you get into it, everything is really simple because it's so close (for the most part) to life today. Happy Reading!
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Summary: long, but definitely not a long blur...
Review: Les miserables is so an elegantly written, and in some way polished book that brings to heart some crimes which may, in a way sound fair. Well, Hugo did basically spend most of his time pointing out unfairnesses around the world, and this book shows it( so does some of the cartoons ), Jean Valjean is such a lovable character that you could simply fly with wings created by emotions and sore into the book world and calm him. But Jean Valjean isn't the only person who makes this book absolutely fantastic. The way it is told, the variety of different characters, the elements, and the real life around it all point to one thing--this book rocks--worthy of 1 hundred stars.
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Summary: Truly honorable
Review: I have a difficult time trying to review this book. All I can really say is that it was wonderful. There are times that you would like to cry at Jean Valjean's unexpected benevolence, and it gives you the unexpected beings on both sides of our earth-
The monstrous poor man and his family, and the thief who does nothing but good.
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Summary: Classic
Review: What can I say? This is a classic, and rightfully so. It's a work of brilliance. I highly recommend the unabridged version.
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Summary: My favorite novel ever written
Review: Les Miserables is the most exquisite piece of literary work ever written, without a doubt. The writing and plot is unsurpassed. It is realistic, and gives you a blunt portrayal of humans and their pride. Throughout the entire novel, a man overrun by his pride is determined to destory the life of a good man. The entire plot is entwined with blessings and misfortunes, happiness and misery, laughter and tears. When you read it, you feel as though you are miles away, living with this man through is pains and progressings. Read this novel, please. You will not regret it.
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Summary: Don"t fongot Epinine
Review: I Love this book. My favertet cherting was Epining. whom pepler sem to foget. some of the reson I lick Epineg is her tragey and streg of spirt. I'm go thore a tight time so I can empirs whih
I'm not gony to tell you her tradge you have to read to find out
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Summary: Les Misérables
Review: Les misérables is a very exciting novel, it's very well written. The book tells how was the life in France in this époque. The story is good, sometimes the reader feel happy and sometimes sad. But it's sometimes boring. Je vous conseille de le lire en français, c'est mieux !
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Summary: Heart-wrenching and wonderful
Review: I loved this book because it was so true to life. It is the story of an ex convict named Jean Valjean, who was imprisoned when he stole a loaf of bread to feed his starving sister and nephew. He is touched in the heart by the Bishop of Digne, when after he stole his silver while spending the night at his house had been pardoned for the offense. The bishop gave the silver to Valjean and said that Valjean must use the silver to become an honest man because he has sold Valjean's soul to God. Valjean because the mayor and helps all of the people in the town. the once poor town was now thriving with factories. There is a young girl named Fantine who was hiding her illegitimate daughter, Cosette, with the Thenardiers, a couple who have daughters of their own and a son. They are poor theives. When it is found out that she has a child, she is fired. No one will hire her, so she has to resort to prostitution. Javert, a confused policeman who hates his own parents because they were scum and criminals, is too hard on himself and has to make up for his past by being overly righteous. He arrests Fantine when she gets in a brawl with some men who were making fun of her and throwing snow at her. Valjean takes pity on her, sending her to the hospital because she has tuberculosis. Fantine only wants to see her child before she dies, but the Thenardiers will not send her for any sum of money. Valjean promises Fantine that her child will be safe. Fantine dies, and Valjean is reimprisoned. He later escapes and goes to the Thenardier's to buy Cosette from them. Cosette was treated badly and abused, but Eponine and the other girls were spoiled rotten. Valjean buys her an expensive doll because she has no play things of her own. Valjean raises Cosette in a convent. Cosette falls in love with a revolutionary from the ABC cafe named Marius. They are revolting because the poor people of Paris are so badly treated while the government is so rich. I would suggest this book to everyone- it is a very wonderful read. Hugo knows a lot about human nature.
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Summary: Worth reading!
Review: I first read an abridged version of Les Miserables, which I thought was the best book in the world. Now, having read the unabridged, I shudder thinking of my naivity.
This book made me care so much about the characters--Jean Valjean, Fantine, Cosette--most everyone except Thenardier. I hate him almost as much as I hate Bob Euwell in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Anyway, I think this book has a little bit of everything--adventure, romance, action, good people, bad people, injustice, and, most of all, God. This was a very strengthening spiritual book for me.
The only reason you might perfer not to read this would be because you might never be satasfied with another book again.
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Summary: A tale of lives intertwined by the workings of God.
Review: Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" is a classic tale set in early-19th Century Paris, in which the lives of several colorful characters cross paths, seemingly randomly, and are each changed dramatically from contact with these others. "Les Miserables" is a short glimpse at how people's actions have direct results on the lives of others, and how God works in these actions for the ultimate good. The novel begins by introducing us to the life of the elderly priest, Monseigneur Bienvenu, an utterly humble and Christ-like man who gives everything he has, including his heart and spirit, to the people he comes in contact with, yet doing it all in testimony to the grace of Jesus Christ. Bienvenu's spirit is what allows him to change the heart of the hardened criminal, Jean Valjean. Valjean, so impressed by the grace shown to him by Bienvenu, embarks on a life of repentance and noble actions. In time, he crosses paths with Fantine, the single mother of Cosette, whom Fantine has had to place in custody of the Thenardier family, being unable to care for Cosette herself. It is out of desperation (a state initially brought upon herself by her own poor choices) that Fantine is forced to leave her daughter with the Thenardiers who, unbeknownst to Fantine, are thoroughly evil people. As Hugo puts it: "There are human creatures which, like crayfish, always retreat into shadow, going backwards rather than forwards through life, gaining in deformity with experience, going from bad to worse and sinking into even deeper darkness. The Thenardiers were of this kind." Out of kindness to Fantine, Valjean sets out to rescue Cosette from the slavery which she has been left to. But by this time, Valjean is being tracked by the cold, legalistic, Javert, an inspector seeking to arrest Valjean for parole violations stemming from the crimes of his earlier days. This sets up a novel of lives on courses that cross with dozens more, with countless twists and turns of the roads on which each character is travelling. What the reader encounters is a fascinating example of how simple meetings of "chance" can often lead to radical re-workings of one's entire outlook on the world and the people around him; of the ways in which these events and introductions can entirely alter how one's life plays out. Ultimately, it is a story that presents numerous challenging questions concerning God, grace, and predestination, or in other words, our sovereignty... or His: "He could see two ways ahead of him, and this appaled him, because hitherto he had never seen more than one straight line. And the paths led in opposite directions. One ruled out the other. Which was the true one?"
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