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Summary: an amazingly good book for being written by a french...
Review: I am an 19 year old boy who reads about one book every second year. But I had to admit that my mother made me a favour when she told me to read this one. It is actually really good, with all its romantic and naturalistic ideas. READ IT! And you will have a good time as well as your litterature teacher will be impressed!
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Summary: A great book with a better story.
Review: A truly great writer, Victor Hugo wrote a story that can be called timeless. The hero of the story turly has a hard life, but he grows and redemes himself. Victor Hugo gives a good history of France and of the different chacters in his book. Any fan of the play would enjoy the story. Take the time to read this version before any other, you will see why it is indeed a great book with a believable set of charcters from Valjean to Javert.
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Summary: If you have the time this is a great book to read.
Review: Les Miserables is easily the best book I have ever read. Hugo send the reader through the ups and downs of the life of Jean Valjean. The characters are unique and wonderful. If think everyone should have a chance to read this book.
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Summary: Caca
Review: I hate this book !!
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Summary: way too dry!
Review: my teacher completely over did it
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Summary: Awesome
Review: When I read this book in sixth grade I thought this is the greatest book that was ever written. Although there were lots of things I didn't understand then, the power of the characters came through. I was espcially enthralled by Marius and Eponine. The France Hugo portrays is also vivid and harrowing. I was so excited while reading it that the corners of the book is all curled up from constant gripping. Don't be daunted by the length! No mind is complete without reading this masterpiece!
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Summary: Second only to scripture
Review: Hugo unfolds a masterful description of the costs and rewards of true Virtue. Care to know learn difficult it is to be a Christian? Care to learn how difficult it is NOT to be?Like Jean Valjean when blinded and dazzled by Monseigneur Bienvenue's goodness to him, your soul will be awakened to an acute sense of Right and Wrong when reading this work. Like Jean Valjean, you will be presented with a sobering choice. Jean Valjean, after much agony, chose to go towards God. Which will you choose? A vastly underrated passage of this work was "Ultime Fauchelevant's" (Jean Valjean's) escape from the convent via the cemetery. The suspense here was at least as compelling as the famed escape through the sewers! Read an abridged version?? PSHAW! That's like lobbing the legs off of the Venus de Milo! You don't want the book to end anyway. Savor the whole experience. Don't miss a word!
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Summary: Inspirational
Review: To think that one mans kindness, unconditional love, and spirit can briefly touch another, so shaping and changing the way the recipient looks at life, is amazing. Jean Valjean's story is like that of a legend; it haunts you. And though I am sure I did not take in as much of the book (historically) as I should have liked to, in the end I am thankful to have read and spent time with so beautiful a story. Being such a rich novel, it is hard not to take something away from it. I hope to read it again someday.
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Summary: The greatest book (in length and enjoyment) I ever read.
Review: Approximately ten to fifteen years ago, a friend of mine lent me a copy of the music from "Les Mis". He claimed it was the best music he had ever heard. It did nothing for me. Approximately three years ago, I watched the PBS fundraising special featuring the tenth anniversery performance of "Les Miserables". I was captured by the story. I bought the book and began to read. I'm not a very fast reader so it took me 8 months to finish the book. I probibly had seven and a half more months of enjoyment than most people as I devoured every word. It is a story of one mans journey through life in which he constantly faces extreme hardship. Every hardship is accompanied by a moral decision which he must make. In each choice he makes a selfless decision for the good of others. It is a tale worth telling and a story worth reading. In one chapter, after what seemed like a thousand pages, Victor Hugo masterfully pulls the pieces together in the last paragraph with all the skill and intrigue of a Tom Clancy novel. THIS IS MUST READING.
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Summary: Incredible translation
Review: I read this over 10 years ago in the UK, after having my curiosity piqued by the muscial. Norman Denny's translation lives up to its promise. If you are a purist you will read this version, all 1200 pages of it. It's the greatest novel of all time in my opinion. A life altering experience. I am reading it right now, for the second time and find it just as compelling as the first time. It is interesting to compare Denny's translation to the lyrics of the show, some is direct plagarism but the audience benefits. It's incredible to see how much was captured in the 3 hours of the show.
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