Les Miserables
Jul. 28th, 2025 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI picked up Les Miserables by Victor Hugo at our local station free book exchange a while ago, and it went almost immediately into my July TBR, based on prompts picked from my TBR jar. I wasn't wholly enthused - mostly because it's so long - but I ended up really enjoying it! It took me pretty much a month to read - in amongst other books, but it was surprisingly pacy in parts, funny in others and generally very entertaining. It's ridiculously over-wordy, but most of the words are clever, beautiful, amusing or interesting, which really helps.
I know the musical really, really well, so it was fascinating to consume the source material and see which bits had been used, changed, or left out. I liked some of the characters either more or less in the book, which was interesting - but Javert will always have my heart.
Really glad I randomly picked this up and then was prompted to read it by my TBR jar! Definitely a win for my YouTube project, as I never would have read it otherwise!
I know the musical really, really well, so it was fascinating to consume the source material and see which bits had been used, changed, or left out. I liked some of the characters either more or less in the book, which was interesting - but Javert will always have my heart.
Really glad I randomly picked this up and then was prompted to read it by my TBR jar! Definitely a win for my YouTube project, as I never would have read it otherwise!
