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Topics messages Last message What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of January 2, 2010 73 Mockingbird87 , Today 9:05pmWhat Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2009 125 kxn11 , Today 8:59pmGeeks who love the Classics : 2010- What classic are you reading now? 6 digifish_books , Today 8:52pmLe Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : LES MIS: Pt. 1; Fantine 2 EnriqueFreeque , Today 8:46pmLe Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Miss Lonelyhearts.... 19 EnriqueFreeque , Today 8:43pmClub Read 2010 : nannybebette; belva's 2010 reads 24 Banoo , Today 7:59pm1010 Category Challenge : RidgewayGirl's 2010 Categorical Challenge 68 Chatterbox , Today 7:40pmClub Read 2010 : Your Top Ten Reads of 2009 45 bobmcconnaughey , Today 7:23pmClub Read 2010 : What Are You Reading Now - January 2010 43 RidgewayGirl , Today 7:07pmBook talk : Choose a Book That You Would Enjoy Reading and Haven't Yet 176 jnwelch , Today 6:28pm1001 Books to read before you die : Discussions/ Group reading? 153 socialpages , Today 5:10pm75 Books Challenge for 2010 : avatiakh reads towards 75 and beyond in 2010 31 FAMeulstee , Today 3:24pm1010 Category Challenge : tandem read / group read matchup thread 187 KAzevedo , Today 2:47pm75 Books Challenge for 2009 : BJ tries to read 75 Books in 2009, Part 2 362 billiejean , Today 2:08pmBooks off the Shelf Challenge : Lisa's promise to read the books she already has 6 RidgewayGirl , Today 2:00pmClub Read 2010 : ChocolateMuse Café 19 elliepotten , Today 12:53pm50 Book Challenge : 2009 with ChocolateMuse 244 elliepotten , Today 12:47pmClub Read 2010 : 2010: Medellia's marvelous musings on... miterature... 11 Medellia , Today 12:42pmBook talk : 2009 - The Year of the Canny Spartan 169 mnbird , Today 12:25pm50 Book Challenge : nannybebette; belva's 5th 172 elliepotten , Today 11:51am75 Books Challenge for 2010 : ***Group Read: Anna Karenina (Spoiler Free) 51 boredd , Today 11:21am50 Book Challenge : Hairballsrus 2010 7 Medellia , Today 11:20amClub Read 2010 : Introductions and Re-Introductions 65 avaland , Today 10:54am75 Books Challenge for 2010 : ****What We Are Reading - Classics 24 elliepotten , Today 8:23amWhat Are You Reading Now? : BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read? 239 flac , Today 8:23amGeeks who love the Classics : What classic are you reading now? 243 Porua , Today 7:02am1010 Category Challenge : avatiakh's 1010 challenge 26 avatiakh , Today 5:53am1001 Books to read before you die : soylentgreen23 wants to read 1001 books 52 soylentgreen23 , Today 5:40am75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Arubabookwoman's 2009 Challenge--Part II 229 bonniebooks , Today 2:13amLe Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : LES MIS: The quotinghouse 73 nannybebette , Yesterday 11:12pm50 Book Challenge : kambrogi in 2009 199 bonniebooks , Yesterday 9:36pmBook talk : Books That I've Bought Recently... Comments? 8 BarkingMatt , Yesterday 6:48pm75 Books Challenge for 2010 : flissp 2010 22 flissp , Yesterday 6:19pmClub Read 2010 : Arubabookwoman's 2010 Books 2 theaelizabet , Yesterday 6:11pmClub Read 2010 : Talbin in 2010 9 nannybebette , Yesterday 4:21pm1010 Category Challenge : RebeccaAnn's 1010 Challenge 32 RebeccaAnn , Yesterday 3:51pmLe Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : 2009 Reading Oscars 33 theaelizabet , Yesterday 3:39pmLe Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Welcome to the Salon! 262 EnriqueFreeque , Yesterday 2:19pmReading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? December 2009 115 RidgewayGirl , Yesterday 9:59amClub Read 2010 : Enrique's erratica, 2010 11 tomcatMurr , Yesterday 9:09am75 Books Challenge for 2010 : Aruba's Books For 2010 12 LisaCurcio , Yesterday 8:38amLe Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : I came, I saw, I pondered: Clarel 117 PimPhilipse , Yesterday 5:37am75 Books Challenge for 2009 : jbeast 75 book challenge 338 jbeast , Yesterday 5:15amGroup Read of The THREE MUSKETEERS - 2010 1010Challenge : Join us and welcome! 16 ravenous.reader , Friday 6:59pm50 Book Challenge : wisewoman's 50+! 99 wisewoman , Friday 5:11pm75 Books Challenge for 2010 : tymfos tries to tackle 75 titles in 2010 50 tymfos , Friday 4:52pm1001 Books to read before you die : Paruline's attempt 41 Tammiejx , Friday 1:04pmFolio Society devotees : Splurging 60 tames , Friday 10:53am50 Book Challenge : elliepotten's - take 2 175 elliepotten , Friday 7:29amLiterary Snobs : What books are you planning to read in 2010? 39 Booksloth , Friday 6:57am75 Books Challenge for 2010 : Karen's Queen Read-a-lot 75+ Books Challenge for 2010 4 alcottacre , Friday 6:22am1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading from the 1001 list in DECEMBER? 90 hdcclassic , Friday 6:22amClub Read 2009 : Solla's reading and other thoughts 113 solla , Friday 5:01am75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Laura's 75 for 2009 199 alcottacre , Friday 3:56am75 Books Challenge for 2009 : avatiakh reads some books in 2009 - Part 2 354 alcottacre , Friday 3:39amLiterary Snobs : What are you reading NOW Dec 09? 99 CliffBurns , Thursday 11:25pm1010 Category Challenge : SlySionnach's 1010 Challenge 28 prezzey , Thursday 9:38pm50 Book Challenge : bluemeanie11's 50 Books in 2009 64 bluemeanie11 , Thursday 8:03pmGeeks who love the Classics : What are your favorite classics? 65 KatherineAdelaide , Thursday 7:55pmFantasyFans : The Wheel of Time 49 Codexus , Thursday 3:16pm1010 Category Challenge : Soffitta1's 1010 challenge 56 soffitta1 , Thursday 11:16amClub Read 2009 : Talbin's 2009 Reading - Part II 65 Medellia , Thursday 11:07amClub Read 2009 : Medellia's 2009 Reading #2 103 Medellia , Thursday 10:20amLe Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : I don't take Victor Hugo seriously, and here's why..... 33 Medellia , Thursday 9:51amLe Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : The Master & Margarita: What Page Are You On? 254 Porius , Wednesday 11:57pm100 Books Challenge for 2009 : meags222 books for 2009 81 meags222 , Wednesday 11:57pmLe Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : LES MIS: What page are you on? and what stands out to you so far? 136 slickdpdx , Wednesday 4:17pm50-Something Library Thingers : What are you reading in 2009 #2 159 Booksloth , Wednesday 3:01pm1010 Category Challenge : Rosemeria's 1010 Challenge 16 mstrust , Wednesday 1:54pm50 Book Challenge : Octane's Challenge 2009 27 Octane , Wednesday 9:18amBook talk : New Member for 2010 5 Medellia , Wednesday 9:10am1010 Category Challenge : Aruba's 1010 Challenge 29 VisibleGhost , Tuesday 7:09pm1010 Category Challenge : Katrina's 1010 Challenge 28 katrinasreads , Tuesday 4:24pm50 Book Challenge : soylentgreen23's 50 books for 2009 54 soylentgreen23 , Tuesday 3:16pmCats, books, life is good. : Are your cats are named after literary characters? 111 calm , Monday 4:33pm75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Karen's 75 Books on a Stick (2009) 168 klobrien2 , Sunday 6:45pm1001 Books to read before you die : Arubabookwoman's 1001 Quest-1-36 16 arubabookwoman , Sunday 5:37pmGroup Reads - Literature : The Group Reads Coffeehouse 249 cakefriend , Sunday 8:21amGroup Reads - Literature : The next book; Nominations open for January - March 2010 83 wookiebender , Sunday 12:12amClub Read 2009 : What Are You Reading Now? 65 rebeccanyc , December 2009Reading Globally : December 09 Group Read: Translation or Translations 42 twitham , December 2009Folio Society devotees : About Folio ABRIDGED books: facts and information thread 91 LucasTrask , December 200920-Something LibraryThingers : What's your favorite book in your library? 122 asukamaxwell , December 2009100 Books Challenge for 2009 : aquascum wanders in 64 aquascum , December 2009Le Salon du Faulkner : And you are....? 50 kidzdoc , December 2009What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of December 12, 2009? 210 justmejo , December 2009Alphabet Challenges : RebeccaAnn's Alphabet Challenge 14 arubabookwoman , December 2009The Green Dragon : If you could only have one book to read and re-read the rest of your life what would it be? 33 mamzel , December 2009Folio Society devotees : Which books would you like to see as Folio volumes? 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Reading Light in August and Les Miserables .
Belva - I really hope you're enjoying Les Miserables . Just ignore my grousing about the narrator over on my thread. I think I have a love/hate relationship with him, but most people don't. I'm sure if I met him I would love him to death, with just a few eye-rolls for the occasional over-lengthy ...
Beginning Light in August and continuing with Les Miserables .
Light In August and Les Miserables
For those who would like to present their thoughts or make comments on this section of Les Miserables .
... volume in Eduardo Galeano's Faces and Masks trilogy)
Right now I am a little more than half-way through Les Miserables , and nearly finished with The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg, which I am reading for Reading Globally Sweden month. I am also well into Within a Budding G ...
>12: I loved Les Misérables and tell myself to re-read it each year. I never do...the siren songs of other books stop me...but I wouldn't mind it if I suddenly picked it up and started again.
The Greengage Summer is on my Read Soon list. I started reading Rumer Godden's books a few years ...
... it, I was thinking to myself: "I wish I had this life." She really has a knack for drawing one in.
I have just begun Les Miserables and do so hope that I do not share your reaction. That is a BIG book to feel mediocre about or to dislike the narrator. I hope it turns around for you.
Bes ...
... group (partly why I'm so slow at reading books is because I'm already aware of far too many groups on LT), but with Les Miserables now and Infinite Jest in a month or two I just can't get to Faulkner at present.
I hope to finish Les Miserables soon, and I am also reading Within a Budding Grove by Proust.
Have decided that I cannot manage Clarel and Les Miserables (for the same group read as Talbin....waves...) at the same time so I have, yet again, set aside the "dreaded" Melville to finish at another date and concentrate on Les Mis, which I began this A.M. and 30-40 pages in......he ...
... Cariola, theaelizabet, & detainmuse for the warm welcomes. I am so happy to be here.
This morning I have begun Les Miserables with The Greengage Summer as my "tweener". I am only 30-40 pages in and though I know I have read it before; this is not the same book. I must have read ...
I finally finished Proust in September. He's wonderful! I read two other biggies after that, Les Miserables and Middlemarch, both just excellent. It was a great reading year for me.
Yeah, I don't mind ushering out 2009. It had its ups and downs, and I'm glad to wave goodbye to the downs. Hope ...
... tongue-in-cheek, but maybe only somewhat. Admittedly, some of this feeling comes from being annoyed with Hugo's narrator in Les Miserables - he loves to interrupt the plot to give us 10-20-50 pages of philosophizing on the subject at hand, and sometimes I would just like to find out what happens ...
Like many here, I'm reading Les Miserables for the group read at Le Salon. Now that the holidays are behind me, I hope to be able to get some serious reading done.
... way through all of the Virginia Woolf books that I can find.... This one's title I didn't recognize. Has anyone read it?
Les Miserables Vol. I – by Victor Hugo. I already own a regular copy of Les Miserables, of course, but this one is absolutely gorgeous. It is soft genuine leather ...
... Also have picked up Cloud Atlas again, which I got halfway through last year and was prevented from finishing. And I have Les Miserables on the backburner, intending to get back to it in earnest when I finish holidays and resume normal life.
... but L.T. I will begin again tomorrow but I am taking today off. (if I can)
Tomorrow I pick up Clarel again, begin Les Miserables , and The Greengage Summer; all for group reads so I will probably have a "tweener" going on at the same time. I still need to pick it out.
belva
The ...
I took a break from Les Misérables my first go-round. I think it was when I got to that ghastly sewer section. :P I picked up The Phantom of the Opera, finished it quickly, and returned immediately to Hugo's world. By then, however, I was firmly in love with it. I'm cheering you on, Rena ...
At the moment I'm on summer holidays, and Les Miserables is sitting in my bedroom eyeing me reproachfully every time I walk past. I've been resolutely ignoring it and reading Wodehouse instead.
He cast a look of agonized entreaty at the bullfinch, but the bird had no comfort to offer. It ...
... particularly Le Salon, has broadened my reading mind and I'm starting to branch out into more serious stuff. I'm reading Les Miserables at the moment (well, I say 'reading', but actually I'm kinda just leaving it it in a prominent place with a bookmark in it at the moment, because I have ...
In the middle of Les Miserables and The Quickening Maze. Enjoying both, so a good way to begin the New Year. Oh, and have a happy one everybody!
... 2009) reading some hefty tomes, so I probably won't have any to post as "finished" for a while. I currently am reading
Les Miserables (LT group-read)--we're reading section 3 of 5 (Marius)
The Children's Book: A Novel by A.S. Byatt
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
I just found out ...
... .
Best drama: King Lear
Best fiction: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Close behind was Middlemarch, and Les Misérables fell toward the top, too.
Funniest book: Jane Austen's Emma
Best worst book: The Riddle of the Traveling Skull by Harry Stephen Keeler, a book so ...
... it. Certainly different from Great Expectations or David Copperfield. It would be an interesting juxtaposition with Les Misérables , too.
It looks like I'll be ending the year with at most 866 pages left of Les Miserables . I think it's safe to say that no matter how much I read today, I won't be finishing it before the end of the year. :-)
In any case, I wish a personal "good riddance" to 2009, and am very much looking forward ...
... than a month to get through this book. We'll see how it goes.
avatiakh, I was disappointed about the October start for Les Misérables too. I wonder whether there would be enough interest to do another read actually in 2010?
I'm tentatively in, mainly because the timing might not work for me. I also want to read Les Miserables but the group read started back in October.
Hi flissp - I'm also planning to read Les Miserables , I was a tad annoyed that the 1010 challenge group read started in October, so I'll be playing catchup with them. When are you thinking of starting?
... Salon Litteraire . We're currently doing a group read of Les Misérables (through February, I believe).
The main threads for the group read of Les Misérables are here:
Where ...
I'm reading Les Miserables for a group read, starting section 3 next week. I'm also reading Doctor Zhivago which is okay so far (120 pages in) but I'm not amazed yet.
... also read A Long Way Gone which was about the life of a boy soldier in Sierra Lione.
I'm reading Doctor Zhivago and Les Miserables at the moment and have several near the top of the tbr pile which should help me tick off a few more books
... think that M.V.L. dislikes the narrator. M.V.L.'s project in Temptation of the Impossible is (given the assertion that Les Misérables is a sentimental melodrama, not entirely lifelike, though it contains lifelike elements) to map out the elements that make up the fictive world of Les Mis. I ...
... finish this)
Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust--For non-LT year-long Proust read--1900-1950 category
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo--I am slightly more than half way through this and should finish it in January. Will put in the pre-1900 category or the 1001 category.
...
I've got you starred now, and want to add my encouragement for reading Middlesex, Les Miserables , and Things Fall Apart- the only books in your goals that I've read, and also all on my all-time favorites list. Looks like you've got a good year planned!
... so we'll see if I read all of these when I say I will, or if I go off on a tangent or two.
January
Finish Les Miserables for Le Salon (started in 2009)
Light in August for Le Salon du Faulkner
Tess of the D'Ubervilles for the
I'm slogging through Les Miserables . The slow pace is mostly due to being incredibly busy for the past few weeks, with barely enough time to read more than a few pages. Now that Christmas is over, I have a stretch of relatively free time, so I'm still hopeful that I can finish Les Mis before the ...
... of the divide obviously existing between War and Peace and War and Remembrance. Bleak House is high art; Les Miserables isn't, and what separates the two is what separates your magna cum laude student from your A-minus student. On paper the divide may not look that ...
... it. I want to see how it compares to FS LE.
Since becoming a member in late November I have bought:
Moby Dick LE
Les Miserables LE
Metamorphosis LE
Dracula
Napoleon
Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
And the Fairy Tale Set
My ...
Recently finished Sicilian Tragedee--just what I needed while I am working my way to the end of Les Miserables . The "tragedee" is a quick read and laugh out loud funny. More here
Les Mis is well worth the time to read ...
I've just finished reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I read it once before, sometime between 18 and 20. I was absorbed in Jean Valjean's story from beginning to end, as well as in the stories of more minor characters, and perhaps half of the long digressions about economics, politics, the ...
ETA--Sorry for the double post--cat jumped on the keyboard at just the right time, and hit just the right key!
I'm in a group read of Les Miserables , but won't be finished til January. I'm counting that as part of my 1010, even though I started it in 09. Pretty much everything else in my challenge will be started after the first of the year. I, too, an getting very impatient.
Besides being about 2/3 through Les Miserables , I am reading an early reviewer book: Sicilian Tragedee. When it arrived, I wondered "what was I thinking" in requesting this book, but I am about 2/3 through this one, too, and it is a great farce! What happens when an avant-garde Sicilian ...
... is, do you get to choose which character in the book you would become? Or is it chancy? Because I would probably pick Les Miserables , but not if I became Javert or one of the women. Only if I could be Jean Valjean or the bishop.
... Victor Hugo (in the two or three minutes I have thus far devoted to Roche's work): ". . . Flaubert's harsh assessment of Les Misérables scolds Hugo for creating theatrical types in a novel ("types tout d'une pièce comme dans les tragédies"), thus implying that the novel should require ...
... use of character types in The Temptation of the Impossible. To quote Llosa:
"When our grandparents wept as they read Les Miserables , they thought that the characters moved them to tears because of their touching humanity. But what really moved them was their ideal nature, their manifest ...
... list Tolstoy's, A Confession , so.... in keeping with avaland's 10% suggestion, here's my Top 3 for '09:
1. Les Miserables
2. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
3. The Sea Came in at Midnight
... Boy Vikram Seth
To Siberia and Out Stealing Horses by per Pettersen
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
Les Miserables by Hugo
The Master and Magarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Home by Marilynne Robinson
2666 by Roberto Bolano
The Dance Most of All Jack Gilbert
... have been getting better and I've started reading more challenging novels again. Right now I'm working my way through Les Miserables for the group read in Le Salon, which I hope to finish before the end of the year - I just wish the holidays didn't keep cutting into my reading time!
I'm ...
I'd like to see an affordable edition of Les Miserables and Notre Dame de Paris come off the printing press; full of illustrations and footnotes.
... that word, but he is a man thoroughly ensconced in his time and place. So was Hugo. If he wasn't he couldn't have written Les Miserables .
So I intend to sit back, shuck my twenty-first century sensibilities, and enjoy the passing parade. After all, it would have been just plain silly to ...
Speaking of Hugo, I just dove into Les Miserables a couple of days ago. I expect to be tied up with that for a few weeks.
... book, I've made homemade bread almost everyday. It's really as easy as the title makes it seem.
Almost certainly #10: Les Miserables , Victor Hugo. I hope to have this finished by the end of the year!
Les Miserables was a fantastic book.
Rebecca Ann just made me aware of this group, and I was planning to read this book early in the New Year. Talk about perfect timing. I am in.
Just bear with me as I might be a bit out of my zone with this book. It will be my first Tolstoy!
... Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll (German)
24. I Think, Therefore Who Am I? by Peter Weissman (first novel, U.S.A.)
25. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (French)
I "sampled" at least as many titles as listed above in '09 which means I read anywhere from the first 25 - 100 pages or so of the ...
... habits, here are some books I read last year:
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Les Misérables , Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo , John Porter Houston
Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo & Les Misérables, Mario Vargas Llosa
Emma, Jane Aust ...
... accidentally burns down a large swath of Concord woods--an event which actually happened)
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Les Miserable by Victor Hugo (will finish by the end of the year and it will undoubtedly be among my top five)
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Hour of the Star by Clarice L ...
What a year!
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Les Misérables , Victor Hugo
Emma, Jane Austen
Howards End, E.M. Forster
King Lear, William Shakespeare
Essays of Montaigne (which I have not nearly finished but I luv him)
Aspects of the Novel, E. ...
Yeah, I know what you mean about names. I just started Les Miserables (sorry Dr. Zhivago) but I don't know if i'd have committed to reading it if I'd known it was going to be so, well, you know, French and all.
... accidentally burns down a large swath of Concord woods--an event which actually happened)
Brooklyn* by Colm Toibin
Les Miserables * by Victor Hugo (will finish by the end of the year and it will undoubtedly be among my top five)
Zeitoun* by Dave Eggers
The Hour of the Star* by Clari ...
... by Lev Grossman*
2. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card*
3. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
4. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo*
5. The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks (And the rest of the trilogy)
6. Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
7. Tickling ...
... So I will make my list now.
Fiction
*In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
*Middlemarch by George Eliot
*Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
*Emma by Jane Austen
*Howards End by E.M. Forster
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Non-fiction
Aspects of the Novel by E ...
... amazing and now make up my all-time Top 3!
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Also, I discovered the Essays of Montaigne this quarter. There are a lot of them and I have not ...
... I attempt a post? Will it be eaten by the LTMonster lurking below my left wrist? Only one way to find out!
My copies of Les Miserables , Paradise Lost, and Miss Lonelyhearts arrived today.
I am digging into Les Mis as soon as I hang up and will meet others over in that corner of the Sal ...
... 15. Give or take a few weeks!
Now, for the second book, the tally goes:
2666 - 10 votes
Shirley - 9 votes
Les Miserables and The Sound and the Fury - each with 8 votes.
Need a consensus: Shall we have a runoff for book #2 between the top two? or the top four? or declare 2 ...
... Ketchum
It by Stephen King
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Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual by Alexander Theroux
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Loc ...
Berly;
There is currently a group read of Les Miserables going on at the Group Read Literature homestead. It began Dec 1st and runs through end of Feb. I am going to wait until Jan 2nd, most likely, to begin and would, of course you silly girl, love for you to join me.
We are all ...
... and Peace which I was reading at the same time as Vanity Fair and Life and Fate. Was just going to dive right into Les Miserables but have decided to put that off until after the holidays. I am "tomed" out.
I am currently reading Clarel and Mrs. Dalloway with the odds and ends of ...
... reading War and Peace and also Vanity Fair so I am rather "tomed" out at the moment and have changed my reading plan of Les Miserables now and am putting it off until after the holidays.
I am currently reading Clarel and Mrs Dalloway and just finished a couple of Debbie Macomber ...
... from the tomes.
Which, speaking of, I think I am done with until after the holidays. I was going to jump right in with Les Miserables , but think I will forgo that until after the first of the year. I believe that I will finish the year off with light, much shorter fare.
Happy holidays ...
... Woolf and enjoying that one very much indeed. (along with my interspersed Christmas stories) Have decided to put Les Miserables on the back burner until after the holidays and just chill and read cozies.
belva
... books I definitely want to read next year - most of these are books I've been meaning to read for ages :
i) Les Miserables : Victor Hugo
ii) The Master and Margarita: Mikhail Bugakov (I've started this before, but was in the wrong frame of mind at the time, so I ...
... the group read in the Faulkner salon group
Half of Within a Budding Grove for Proust group read
Finish the rest of Les Miserables , which I began 12/1.
Glad to see all the familiar faces, and welcome to the new faces.
Deborah
... Friends, which was very good. Seems Le Carre was very angry at the Bush admin when he wrote it.
Still plowing through Les Miserables . Also I just bought the Harry Potter set for my son and me so that we can re-read them when we feel like it. My friend who is loaning me the Patrick O'Brian ...
I can see myself getting in a bit of a fix too with all the choices available. I want to do the 1010 Les Miserables group read but they jumped the gun and started in October. I refuse to pick it up till Jan 01 which means having to try and play catch up.
... Obernewtyn book which was meant to come out early 2009 but has been delayed till May.
My 1010 Group Reads in 2010:
Les Miserables - hopefully I can catch up with the group in Jan
The Three Musketeers - Feb
Storm Front by Jim Butcher - late Jan
PimPhilipse in Club Read 2009 : PimPhilipse's meanderings (Dec 12, 2009, 4:03pm)
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I wanted to finish this before the Les Miserables read, in order to be able to compare Dostoevsky and Hugo. Whatever Nathalie Babel Brown may say in Hugo and Dostoevsky, it's still real Dostoevsky, and ...
... this group started reading it, but was hoping to get in on more discussion. I am in another group, theoretically reading Les Miserables . I'm keeping pace with the schedule we had set, but I don't know how others are doing. Part of the problem may be the size of some of these 1001 Books--they ...
... daughter who cannot make it this year and must remain in Texas.
My reading time will be taken up with group reads of Les Miserables , Clarel, the Christmas stories that are a must for me each year, and this year I also really want to read: Christmas with Anne by L.M. Montgomery, T ...
... Hugo write the sentence in argot and footnote it to translate it for the rest of the world?
I am one of those reading Les Miserables . I can read French, but not as a native speaker. So, I read one of the English translations and when I have questions in my mind about the translation I go ...
... interesting.
Translations seem to be the topic of the month.
A few anecdotes:
Another group is currently reading Les Miserables which I have already read but I've been following their threads and have been helping settle any translations questions.
One person asked me to translate ...
... to go yet. Am still thinking I will be done in plenty of time. But I do want to finish this read before beginning the Les Miserables group read which began Dec 1st. I did go ahead with Clarel which is less than 500 pages and began with the equinox. (7th) I have found that one tome at ...
... still finishing War and Peace for that group read, have begun Clarel for that one and when done with W & P, will begin Les Miserables for that group read. I am already late in starting (Dec 1st), but when I was reading Life and Fate and War and Peace at the same time it was really too ...
I just finished the second section of Les Miserables for the group read, I've got Three Musketeers going (love it!), and just started Dracula for something different (!) I'm thinking of joining in on the Anna Karenina group read that I've seen mentioned, but that won't be until next year (th ...
I have just returned from Guyana with This Body
I am still in post-Revolution France with Les Miserables , am doing a readalong in which we are reading one book a month.
... a lovely day my dear. I am going to check out a few threads and then get back to War and Peace so that I may soon begin Les Miserables .
big warm hugs. (we are so cold here right now. 14.2 degrees--Brrrrrrrr!~!)
belva
I think M. and Mme. Thenardier, in Les Miserables were bigger villains than Javert. Thenardier was not so obviously a product of his environment as (Hugo tells us) that Javert was. In fact, in a brief mention of Thenaridierʻs political stance, Hugo mentions that he was a "Bonapartist" - ...
... from another thread.
TBR right now at home:
le Desert (I am just beginning the second book but took a break to read les Miserables with a group)
The Savage Detectives bought after so many on LT raved about Bolano.
Ficciones bought because I remembered how totally amazing it is to ...
... to this book. It is very good. I like it much better in war than in peace. Once I have finished this one, I am on to Les Miserables ; both group reads.
I am also reading Nella Larsen's Passing; again, very, very good and filling in with lighter fare (mainly Christmas stories at ...
second Les Miserables please.
belva
Second Doctor Zhivago
Nominate Les Miserables
... never get through in a year. Here are some ideas I'm playing with (definitely not set in stone):
Big classics
Les Misérables
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment
Proust
Look, I've never read any of the Big-and-Serious classics, so the list is ...
Les Miserables and Middlemarch. And, feeling a total lack of understanding of the history of the time of Les Mis, La Belle France. But I am restricting that to the appropriate time frame.
Lois, I have a couple of Annie Ernaux in French--maybe I am biting off more than I can chew!
... of which are pretty obscure, referred to by Proust in his seven volume work.
I'm also a few hundred pages into Les Miserables , which I also love. I read it in high school, and am so glad to read it again.
I've neglected my Egyptian art read Red Land, Black Land, and I need to ...
... wondered why it didn't look right :)
So that was my adventure at the sale. I love my library!
Currently I am reading Les Miserables and am thoroughly enjoying it. I don't want to spoiler anything for anyone... I've just finished Fantine's story. I didn't cry this time, but this was the ...
Les Miserables - I'm about 100 pages in now (thats 6.8%).
I also just posted an attempt of a review of Gilead. Mainly, it covers the 1st half.
... by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Just starting Les Miserables - which will me a while. Also, I just finished Sea of Poppies.
Welcome to the group! Are you enjoying Les Miserables ? I doubt I'll physically read it again, but I might listen to it someday. It is one of my favorite books. Such a wonderful tale.
... .
So, one fiction and one non-fiction per month starting in January. I won't start this month since I am already reading Les Miserables and Middlemarch along with the three or four that seem to get a few pages each night before the book falls in my face.
Les Miserables : group read.
V. Propp: Русский Героический Эпос (The Russian Heroic Epos): language and folklore study. I'm on page 80 of 567 so far, which is for me the farthest I've ever come in a russian book, but there's still a long way to go. Yesterday a gigantic ...
... of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Jay Gatsby, from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Enjolras, from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
I love Sydney the best, the poor, inebriate jackal.
... Sea of Poppies by Amtiav Ghosh - although I'm still reading the not-quite-a-glossary at the end. Next I'm going to try Les Miserables - all unabridged 1463 pages.
... ://librivox.org/barchester-towers-by-anthony-trollope/
And tomorrow is 1st December, which means I join the group read of Les Miserables ... so my reading is cut out for me for the next few months. I guess others, like me, will find their reading life interrupted sorely by events from that ...
From jnwelch's library I choose Les Miserables by Victor Hugo as I have it on my shelf and won't have to buy a new book.
From my library I recommend Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country; a beautiful book about Africa.
My book just arrived. I have read Les Miserables once before and it was no 1222 page monster like this one so I guess it was the abridged version. I checked it out of the library years ago. I am excited that I will be getting more of the story than I did last time.
Anyway, I won't begin until ...
I continue to make progress on Les Miserables for the group read, and The Three Musketeers for my own read. I'm just starting some non-fiction, to be a counterpart to those large bits of fiction.
1. Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon by Gijs van Hensbergen
2. The New J ...
... I am currently deep into two group reads myself: Life and Fate and War and Peace and will be starting Clarel and Les Miserables when the time and books arrive but those will hopefully be done by year's end excepting for the latter two.
So sally forth, our trusty leader, and we shall ...
... there?
No?
Who's gonna clean up that mess down there?"
Any relationship?
Oops, sorry for this interruption in the Les Miserables thread. Back on track--in whose story will I find the whale? I am thinking of reading ahead.
Thanks, all! It is now on my to be read list. In other news, I am doing a group read of Les Miserables starting in December and I have Foucault's Pendulum waiting at the library for me.
>192 Thanks for the welcome, A_musing. I've been lurking for at least a month, drawn by the idea of reading Les Miserables with the group, but now that I've read and reviewed The Hour of the Star (wow - a reread will be coming this week) I figured I should jump into the fray.
Hello to all!
Counting today, there are 15 days until I plunge into Les Miserables * for the third time. I've been waiting to do this since I read the last page last time. And this time it will be in the context of a group read, which should give it a whole new dimension. Can't wait, you guys :D
So who is ...
... thread. I will have to seek out the name of the Gaskell. Shouldn't be too difficult.
And then CM, you up and mention Les Miserables ; that's okay and very good and all, but, but, but then the elusive and abusive Herman Mellville's Moby Dick comes up and my mind immediately said: "Ew ...
... look for Romain Gary, who I had not heard of before.
I loved The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Looking forward to reading Les Miserables next month with this group.
98: Duh....
So, I am going to start Les Miserables in December, and am between books right now but will probably read le Desert which I have been putting off for lo these many months.
I just finished Hour of the Star and Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and reviewed them. One was a ...
... erlaine
Poems by Paul Eluard
Paroles by Jacques Prevert
Poems by Pierre Emmanuel
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
JʻAccuse by Emile Zola
... it's going to take ages to read and just read a bit each day, while reading other books as well. That's what I did with Les Miserables a couple of years ago and what I am doing now with a monster biography of Dickens by Peter Ackroyd. I appreciate them far more that way.
I didn't ...
... he saw what would come, written 10 years before WW1. It reminded me of Buchan's Hannay books.
I have finished Book 1 of Les Miserables , and am looking forward to the readalong discussion which starts tomorrow.
>#159;
Hi Lisa. Did you end up having to order the "mass market" paper back of Les Miserables ? I don't want a hardback but cannot find a trade paperback anywhere. I think the Wilbour translation is the only unabridged one.
And to you (you know who you are) no roaming in and out of the room, ...
... I've only been lurking here — I've been too busy trying to keep up to actually post anything. I did pick up a copy of Les Miserables Friday...
I have read Les Miserables several years ago, but I think it is time for a re-read (I had to refresh my memory on the fact that I had even read it!)
The two classics I know for sure I will be reading next year are Anna Karenina and Moby Dick because we are doing group reads for both of ...
... of them were excellent reads.
I will read The Woman in White eventually but I have other classics lined up including Les Miserables for early next year.
... on the French Revolution just so I have at least some working knowledge of all the references made to that violent era in Les Miserables , a book I'll begin re-reading next month.
Don Quixote, Les Miserables , Siddharta, The Master and Margarita.
Ficciones (not a novel, but whatever...)
Something by Calvino? Maybe Invisible Cities?
Three Kingdoms?
And though it'll probably be shot down - The Count of Monte Cristo.
Don Quixote, Les Miserables , Siddharta, The Master and Margarita.
Ficciones (not a novel, but whatever...)
Something by Calvino? Maybe Invisible Cities?
Three Kingdoms?
And though it'll probably be shot down - The Count of Monte Cristo.
ETA: Dang, Martin slipped in ...
#282 - yep, the 1010 group read. Les Miserables was supposed to be one of my 999 reads but after vol 1 I put it down and didn't get back to it. Good luck with the 999 and hope to see you on the group read threads soon.
Laura
#276 - is that the 1010 group read of Les miserables ? I'm hoping to join in next year, as I've been wanting to read this for a while, but need to finish this year's 999 challenge first.
Finished The Aeneid last week. This week I'm restarting Les Miserables . I'm doing a group read so maybe I'll actually finish it this time.
I also am dipping into The Canterbury Tales
Well, I finished Les Misérables on Thursday, at the Cathedral of St John the Divine. The largest cathedral in the world, incidentally. (It gets it on a technicality--St. Peter's Basilica is larger but not technically a cathedral.)
IreneF in Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : I came, I saw, I pondered: Clarel (Oct 27, 2009, 9:54pm)
... joining this group, but this thread reminds me why I never took lit classes in college. I don't want to re-read Les Miserables either. Some of the other stuff looks interesting and a few are even on my various wishlists. But why read Shamela without reading Pamela beforehand?
...
... Old thread here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/50280
I expect to announce the completion of my first trip through Les Miserables soon. The last third of the book is a nailbiter! Go, Gavroche, go! Look out, Jean Valjean! Oh no, it's that nasty Thénardier again! *gasp* Javert's tied up! ...
... and wonderful characters.
I'm reading The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Comfort of Strangers, and keeping up with Les Miserables for the group read. I'm really enjoying them all!
Karen
... on.
Still reading The Brooklyn Follies since I've been busy of late. I really love Auster's writing. Also still reading Les Misérables when I'm at school; barely made a dent in it, happily.
Edit: And, shame on me for forgetting, Cliff's stories when I'm on the computer and awake enough ...
... I'll make it through quite as many this year, but my reading list over the last year includes In Search of Lost Time, Les Miserables , most of E.M. Forster's fiction, and four of Jane Austen's novels (two of them rereads). I can be happy with that.
Two more books, then I must stop.
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
A comparison of three translations of a passage from Les Miserables that both 'Rique and I favor:
"Il se penchait sur ce qui gémit et sur ce qui expie. L'univers lui apparaissait comme une immense maladie; il sentait partout de la fièvre, il auscultait partout de la souffrance, et, sans ...
... I'll let you be the deciding factor on whether I buy this in hardcover now or wait for the paperback!
I'm still reading Les Miserables --about 2/3 of the way through.
#114 Thanks - that looks great! I think Les Miserables already has a thread set up.
ETA - would you consider posting a link to this thread in case someone is interested on one of these books and doesn't know who to contact, or someone who wants to suggest another book?
... a few books before my Portuguese course restarted, not sure about how much I'll get done now though. I have just received Les Miserables volumes I and II, can't wait to start!
There's no real rhyme or reason to my list, just ten books jumbled together.
Les Miserables - V. Hugo
Foucault's Pendulum - U. Eco
Invisible Cities - I. Calvino
East of Eden - J. Steinbeck
The Master and Margarita - M. Bulgakov
A Passage to India - E. Forster
Paradise Lost - J ...
... that is, not age!)
Well, I was going to read Moby Dick soon (once I finish Lord of the Rings) and then move on to Les Miserables - but since the group read for Les Mis is in November and you will start a Moby Dick group read next year, I might just have to swap my order around. Now, ...
It'd probably be Les Miserables , but I've owned it less than a year so I may yet get to it. Oh, or Prussia: The Iron Kingdom, but that's not exactly a book you can finish in one go...
... of Dorian Gray - first week of January
Brutal Telling - no time decided (Feb-Mar, April, Fall were all mentioned)
Les Miserables - beginning in Oct '09, one book per month
Crime and Punishment - mid-January
Have I missed anything?
I'd posit that Les Miserables could probably offer a quotation or two on all of the themes listed above in #1, but I'll start with one that's stayed with me over the years.
Mourning and sorrow (and helping others who are mournful or sorrowful):
"He inclined toward the distressed and ...
Hi BJ,
I think joining a group read for some books is a great idea. I am actually going to join a group read for Les Miseralbes . I think I will read it if I know others are reading it too. Moby Dick is another one that I would read with a group too. The long books are just easier that ...
Yay! I've been meaning to start a "what are you reading?" thread here lately, and this is even better.
Les Miserables - A combo of 5 & 6. 'Rique gave it his full recommendation and it is also in his "Favorites" collection, which I take into consideration like a reading list. Tomcatmurr's "reall ...
Michael, I just received Nyphron Rising today and can't wait to begin. So much so that I am setting aside Les Miserables to read it, as I've been patiently waiting for months for it to come out. And man do I miss Saturday morning cartoons. Underdog was always my favorite.
... will include French. If you're feeling ambitious, I don't know if you've noticed that there are planned group reads of both Les Misérables and Les Trois Mousquetaires?
Also, I'll be interested to see what you choose for your Science category, since I have one of those as well :)
... his books, and I rarely read genre these days, so this will be a treat, I'm sure.
I've also got Three Musketeers and Les Miserables on my ebook reader, but those will take some time to come.
Karen
... would be more accurate!) and is also in my 101010 challenge so a definite read for me next year...
also interested in Les Miserables possibly
and never read any Atwood so Atwood for April sounds like a plan :-) I like a bit of Dystopia now and then so will try the handmaids tale I ...
I would like to read Les Miserables as part of a group read, but like others am a bit pressed at present. I got a copy of the book - a Penguin classic last month. So will follow your progress but couldn't start till next year sometime.
Jane Eyre and Les Miserables are two of my favorites (sadly I don't have any film recommendations). I find them both comfortingly hopeful in tone.
... Dalton!) Have also been rereading my favorite passages. Jane Eyre is good comfort food.
Have also been reading more of Les Miserables . For a book with so many characters facing so many dire problems, it's surprisingly comfort-foodish as well. Anybody watched any (non-musical) adaptations of ...
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3: Poland by James Michener
4: The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Penman
5: King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett
6: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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... here! I've got a few books in the works right now (100 Years of Solitude, Adjunct: An Undigest, The Three Musketeers, Les Miserables , The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I usually have an assemblage of books in my stack, but I think I started the Agatha Christie novel because I needed something ...
... these works in the original.
(1) Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1) - Marcel Proust (French)
(2) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (French)
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I go in mostly for 19th-century British and French literature. From the latter group I most love Victor Hugo's Les Miserables , although Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, The Mystery of the Yellow Room, The Perfume of the Lady in Black, and The Secret of the Night make for ...
I've added both Moby Dick and Les Miserables to my basket ... I haven't checked out yet. They're just sitting there - I'm going to wait a day or two to decide. I really wanted the Rubyiat LE but my husband's seen the flyer on that one so he's going to be more than aware how much I spent. Th ...
... Name is Red or Snow?
I still want us to read I am a cat at some point.
I am now very much looking forward to Les Miserables . While The Octopus is definitely about an interesting period in history, and I am sure I won't regret having read it, its style is hard for me to get into.
... by St. Paul
The DIggerʻs Game by George V. Higgins
Gospel of John attributed to St. John
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Ox Bow Incident by
Walter VanTilburg Clark
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
... down the hill to the river". Such imagery. *happy sigh*
On another note, it's cool that the upcoming group reads are on Les Miserables and Proust - both are books I've decided very recently that I want to read. I'll probably join in if I can. Yay, so many great books lie ahead of me! :)
... wouldn't be joining them. That period of American lit doesn't exactly get my motor running, anyway. Looks like December & Les Miserables is going to be my first group read with the Salon (I've gotten a jump on things and have been reading it for the past few weeks--I agree with you so far, it's ...
... ndhals
* The Women's War by Alexandre Dumas
* Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
* Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
* Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
... Suitable Boy is on my TBR pile as is North and South, although I'm not sure I'll get to them this year. I'm doing the Les Miserables Group read and I can't wait to get started on that one.
Looks like you have already picked out some great books.
... done, 21 to go. I have to stop reading misc other stuff and stick to 999 challenge books if I'm going to finish.
I moved Les Miserables out of the book club list and added in the next 2 for our local book club. I'll join a group read of Les Mis and finish it in 2010.
Wheee! As a long-time lurker (but one who is very excited to delurk for Les Miserables , let me express my unequivocal support for cramming as many books in as possible. I mean, I like the idea of sticking to the tomes too--giving us an excuse to read all those cultural monoliths big enough to ...
Wheee! As a long-time lurker (but one who is very excited to delurk for Les Miserables , let me express my unequivocal support for cramming as many books in as possible. I mean, I like the idea of sticking to the tomes too--giving us an excuse to read all those cultural monoliths big enough to ...
I'm starting the challenge in October and I'm fine with starting Les Miserables in October too. I'm flexible, if the general consensus is to wait to May for those starting in January I'm fine with that too. I have plenty of books to keep me busy until then.
I'm in for Herodotus.
And I need to finish Les Miserables so I'll join that one too.
Hola Katrina. I'm tempted by Les Miserables too.
When I turned 11 or 12, my mother gave me Les Miserables and that revolutionized my reading career. That plus the musical was fantastic as a girl.
I would love to read Les Miserables . It's been on my TBR list forever and I would love an excuse to finally read it. Plus it's on the 1001 list which is one of my categories so that would be and added bonus for me.
... 365 Days
1. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Sweden)
2. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russia)
3. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (France)
4. Black Ice by Hans Werner Kettenbach (Germany)
5. Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Austria)
6. The Ex ...
... there are five in the series, beginning with childhood in South Africa and ending with the Four Gated City set in London. Les Miserables and The Brothers Karamotsov are also in that category.
... through literature. This might make a great thread too: The Truth Revealed in Literature.
I believe our next read, Les Miserables will shed some more light on this concept. Thank you Wilf for your analysis! I think you've hit on why a lot of us read this stuff in the first place, ...
I'm planning to at least attempt Les Misérables next year, though I'm not sure I'll actually get through it. I just hope it's not too soon after the Trois Mousquetaires--I think I've already signed up for way more French than I can handle!
#73 Katrinasreads - I'm up for a group read of Les Miserables as long as the scheduling doesn't clash with the other reads.
... edit this post to include my top 100. (I'm sure everyone is just fascinated )!
Literature
01. Les Miserables
02. Infinite Jest
03. In Search of Lost Time
04. The Recognitions
05. War and Peace
06. Crime and Punishment
07. David Copperfield
08. The ...
... in when they get that started. As well, they have some threads about translated literature there.
I'm currently reading Les Miserables . I'm a sucker for multiple translations (I worry that I'm not reading the best one, too), so I've picked up the three unabridged English versions: MacAfee/Fah ...
anna_in_pdx in
Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Sep 26, 2009, 6:25pm)
... and several other wonderful books and am so very happy! My reading habits are improving and I am now preparing to read Les Miserables and Le Desert by LeClezio. I am also working on Patrick O'Brian's maritime series (palate cleansers in between more serious stuff).
I am now 41 and I ...
Anyone up for joining me to read Les Miserables (unabridged)?
Scary Books I Should Read:
tbr:
1. Les Miserables , Victor Hugo
>11.
It's not always the English (or other {language}) title.
Take, for example, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables . In English, the title has been translated as: The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, and The Victims. But when you go to your bookstore and ...
... contre, je me rend compte que la plupart des livres que j'aimerais avoir dans ce genre d'éditions sont des titres comme Les Misérables ou Le Rouge et le Noir - alors franchement, pas question de les acheter en traduction anglaise. Est-ce que quelqu'un a une idées quelles maisons d'éditio ...
... treat yourself. ;+)
I'm on the look out for a really nice edition of A History of Western Philosophy by Russell and Les Miserables by Hugo.
Anyone suggest other non-Folio editions ≥ in quality?
... book into a romance. You could make a case for Great Expectations, or Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, or Victor Hugo's Les Miserables .
And there are indeed quite a few male writers writing Harlequin/Mills and Boon under female pseudonyms. At least one husband and wife team, too.
... ead)
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (own but have not read)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I didn't do as well as I thought I would. Out of the 100 I have read 46, abandoned 4, own but not yet read 18 and am currently reading 1.
b ...
I am 200 pages into Les Miserables and enjoying it very much. It's a very big book, but easy to nibble at little bits here and there when I can.
Today: Variations on a theme:
"We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game."
...
... and resources got hold of the information.
As for what I'm reading, aside from my dinky mass market paperback of Les Miserables , I've started Of Mice and Men - assigned reading for school. At least it's not an awful book, though not quite my cup of tea.
... looking forward to A Passage to India, but it'll probably be another month before I get to it, as I'm currently reading Les Miserables .
Off-list, I thought Forster's Maurice was very good, and The Longest Journey just ok. Aspects of the Novel is also really worth reading.
... had a copy on their shelves when I was a kid, and the name "Pearl Buck" has always fascinated me. And Don Quixote and Les Miserables , because it's time for me to read a chunkster too!
Yep, sounds good to me teelgee.
So, I nominate:
Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
... because I fancy a chunkster to really get my teeth into and my brain has now recovered enough from my thesis to need sustenance ...
If you're interested in a group read of The Master and Margarita (now through Nov.), Les Miserables (Dec.-Feb.), Infinite Jest (Mar.-May '10), or Swann's Way and In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (maybe more, starts June-ish '10), check out this group:
Medellia in What Are You Reading Now? : 2009 - Your Best Five Reads of Q3 (July -Sept) (Sep 17, 2009, 10:45am)
Since I'm quite sure I won't be finishing Les Miserables this month (it'll go on next quarter's list!), here we go:
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Started last Sept., finished a few weeks ago, the best book I've ever read.
Three books by E.M. Forster:
Howards End (great story ...
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Group 8: Classic
1. War and Peace
2. Huckleberry Finn
3. Les Miserables Volume I
4. Les Miserables Volume II
... sure the next book isn't a tome so we can start our scary Halloween book before Halloween :P
>80: I've never read Les Miserables but most people tend to agree that it's better than The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which I decided to read that book first. Save the best for last and all ...
I'm just finishing The Hunchback of Notre Dame today. It's pretty good, but I liked Les Miserables a lot better.
The rest I have read as well. I think the best one is Dracula, purely from a storytelling standpoint. Frankenstein is a decent read as well for a horror/scifi novel.
For ...
... this too, and I'm pretty sure that alongside the other 4 I usually have going at one time, my main book to read will be Les Miserables . It's our Classic Bookgroup pick for December and January, splitting it in two chunks of 600 or so pages each month. Yikes. And knowing me, I'll be ...
Comfort Food
1. The Red and the Black, Stendhal
2. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
3. Les Miserables , Victor Hugo
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... attention span while I get into the swing of things; more on all these things as time goes by. In a few weeks, I think, Les Miserables and A Passage to India are on my plate. My reading year may have started out slowly, but I'm feeling tremendously inspired these last few months.
Oh yes, I forgot about Les Miserables . What order were they going in?
... some sympathy for Henchard at the end.
Henchard's story reminds me, in a general sort of way, of Jean Valjean's. Only Les Miserables is a much better book.
That is one of those I forgot: Les Miserables .
And like you, Liz, I read it when I was 13!
I ploughed through Les Miserables when I was about 13, all 1400 pages of it. I loved it then, but I don't think I'd have the patience to read it now.
... a dozen chick-lits or similar") that the number of books one reads is not a measure of how much reading one does, since Les Miserables is quite a bit more reading than a lot of popular novels (brainless chick-lit, brainless sci-fi, etc.). I assume you meant "brainless sci-fi" to distinguish ...
... ell
I might not be quite up to speed on the year's reading, but I have at least read some epic tomes, like this one and Les Miserables , as well as a few dense pieces of non-fiction. It's been a good year so far, and not over yet.
... of Death by Ariana Franklin
If you were stranded on a desert island, which three books would you want to find there?
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo - mainly for the length, though it better have a happy ending.
Winston Churchill's 6 volumes on WW2 - so I finally read them or maybe the ...
I agree with Nglofile (#11-12) at least on Idylls of the King and probably on Les Miserables , though I would expect more arguments from other religionists on the Hugo book. But Les M. may even have been too religiously inclined for the tastes of the intellectual establishment of
mid-19th ...
I agree with Nglofile (#11-12) at least on Idylls of the King and probably on Les Miserables , though I would expect more arguments from other religionists on the Hugo book. But Les M. may even have been too religiously inclined for the tastes of the intellectual establishment of
mid-19th ...
... mousquetaires
Emile Zola : Au bonheur des dames
Romain Gary : Les racines du ciel, Les cerfs-volants
Victor Hugo : Les miserables , Notre-Dame de Paris, Le dernier jour d'un condamne
Jules Verne : Mysterous Island
Perhaps less known outside of France:
Tonino Benacquista : Quel ...
... justification): to wit, Don Quixote in a translation I feel should be retired (especially from a Fine Edition), ditto Les Miserables and a few others.
Some of the Limited Editions are undoubtedly the best of their kind--Night Thoughts, the LE Diary of Samuel Pepys, the Temple of ...
... ascending order. Just picking categories so far - far too far ahead to think of books.
1 x 1. Scary book I should read = Les Miserables Victor Hugo
2 x 2. History Non-Fiction
3 x 3. Books about Language
4 x 4. Books that have lurked on mount tbr the longest.
5 x 5. Fairytale reads
6 ...
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That's amazing. I know I have read some huge volumes in the last three years like Les Miserables , Clarissa, Poor Fellow My Country, War and Peace, Atlas Shrugged etc etc, but even still I'm unsure I couldn't manager that amount.
... utes.
Here is my list:
1. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
2. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle
3. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
4. The Stranger by Albert Camus
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
6. The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
...
That's a pretty nifty set up for reading! I'm still impressed you got through Les Miserables in only a couple of days, enforced reading time or not.
Mmm, enforced reading time...
ETA: You know, I can't work out which book you're reading in the photo.
... evil. (I think his plot endings could do with a bit more polish, however!)
And please let me know you didn't knock off Les Miserables in two days, but have been reading it alongside all the other books! (I'm yet to read that one. At the moment, I seem to have developed a fear of any book ...
... insight into hoe human minds work and how humans behave and holds up a mirror...
I'm not making any sense, am I?
83. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
... Joseph Conrad novels I still need, I was told they should be back on the site by next week, or going for the LE of Les Miserables and The Persian Expedition by Xenophon.
I'm in Australia and have been longing to buy Les Miserables , but at A$475 incl postage, I would feel rather cheated.
Does anyone know if I can get around the FS's unfair pricing by buying directly from the member's room when next in London?
I could say the classics like:
Jean Valjean, Eponine, Marius, Cosette, Javert, etc... in Les Miserables
The Count in The Count of Monte-Cristo
... but there is one from my youth that I just have to say.
Nancy Drew from the Nancy Drew series. I grew up with her and will always have fond ...
July 16th.
Finished The Stupidest Angel and Wyrd Sisters this week.
I still haven't finished Les Miserables , it's so dense. I feel bad because I listed it on BM, because I told myself If someone mooched it I would HAVE to send it this week, aka FINISH THE BOOK ALREADY, SELF!
I'm also ...
... e.
For everybody else:
-There's also Wall of Mirrors, a pretty intense sci-fi novel. - MOOCHED
-A fairly worn copy of Les Miserables - MOOCHED
I have more to list, but I'm going to add everything in spurts so I don't get too swamped with requests.
Magazines are still 3-for-1, mooch any ...
Ahab's Wife, The Tale of Genji, and Les Miserables (in French)
... it may have been Revolt of the Angels, and I just can't remember that it was that. XD
Jveezer - I have the Heritage Les Miserables in that two volume set. The first volume I have is red, but is faded badly as well. The blue second volume is very bright.
This weekend I visited Ophelia Books in the Fremont district of Seattle. I ran across the Heritage Les Miserables in two volumes. I thought about getting it (to keep me from considering the Folio Society LE) as it is one of the titles on my "to be read" list that I don't have a copy of. Interestin ...
... of Green's best, which is a little disappointing, because I love his Nightside novels.
I'm currently in the middle of Les Miserables and Wyrd Sisters.
I hope to start The Stupidest Angel when I finish, or Pyramids. Depends on what kind of mood I'm in.
1) By spruiking, does he get to keep his pants on?
2) Does Les Miserables count? It does go on a bit, but all those French people seem to like it for some odd reason.
... by watching the RSC and the eight hour play) Then another unmentioned favorite that entertains would be Victor Hugo and Les Miserables
Novels related to musicals.... how about Les Miserables ? :)
... David Sedaris
Blindness and Insight by Paul de Man
In Memoriam by Tennyson
The Case of Nora by Moshe Feldenkrais
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Still finishing up this last one--I feel like it should count for 3!
I am currently reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
1. Where did you get this book?
Barnes & Noble (apart of their Classics series)
2. How much did it cost?
$9.95
3. Why did you pick this book to read NOW?
A friend of mine is reading it for her book club, and I thought I'd ...
If you do decide to read Les Miserables , it will keep you busy for a while. (#11)while ?! Even in translation, it took me six months to read, and I was unemployed at the time.
... to try different things, and an interest in the classics, here are some of my favorites.
For the Classics, I'd recommend Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (or anything by Twain -- he's fun).
Fo ...
114. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
10. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
I recently read two books which had completely opposing views of the Church - Les Miserables with its saintly bishop and benevolent nuns, and Lavengro with its sinister, scheming priests.
Can you recommend two books which should not be placed next to each other on the shelves in case they ...
The Lord of the Rings
Madame Bovary
The Mill on the Floss
Les Miserables
Moll Flanders
Mrs Dalloway
Native Son
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Out of Africa
... remove a judge's ability to exercise his empathy (= judgment?).
In my limited experience, there are still quite a few Les Miserables characters in the judicial system, including lawbreakers who never receive a minimal amount of support or a second chance. How can anyone seek move on in ...
... of Green Gables is another favorite
Jamie Frasier from the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
Jean Valjean from Les Miserables
Scarlett O'Hara from Gone With the Wind
... in order, I could not live without (this list is subject to revision):
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor ...
... and can idetify with the story or charactors no matter when the book was writen. Of human Bondage, The Good Earth or Les Miserables are all classics every generation rediscovers them and can get it.
But with sci fi we tend to look at the future ( we're optomists) and try and see what ...
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. Fascinating, especially when viewed in comparison with Victor Hugo's Les Miserables . I will be posting a review when I'm finished, probably tomorrow or Thursday. (EDIT: Now posted. See my profile page!)
Just picked up The Toilers of the Sea fairly recently, Mac, but alas, (sigh), Les Miserables remains to date my only Hugo read. Definitely need to change that fact soon! I'm FedEx'ing Kleenex to you asap!
21...poor-ious! Please elaborate on Billy Budd won't you? Read that in college ...
... I picked it up it felt like a chore. Although I guess I didn't read it in the best of circumstances - I'd just finished Les Miserables , which was one of the best books I'd ever read and kept me so riveted I couldn't put it down, and prior to that I'd read Dombey and Son, which I really ...
... And this comes from someone who is mindlessly devoted to books as large as The Lord of the Rings, Middlemarch, and Les Miserables .
... of expanding it to 6 volumes will be to make it a lot more expensive.
In the past blockbusters like War and Peace, Les Miserables and The Decameron have appeared in either single volume or two volume FS editions - I think some of these new proposed titles are unnecessarily divided ...
... which also had excellent illustrations that would have been worthy of a LE version too. I preferred the original FS edition Les Miserables lithographs to the LE edition.
... like how much of a know it all the main character's partner was. Overall, I give this book a 3.5 out of 5
29. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
30. Charley's Web by Joy Fielding
31. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
... that you started and put aside I've read and enjoyed. Did you put them down because you did not like them? For example, Les Miserables is one of my favorites, Jude the Obscure, I too started but have never finished, I found it depressing. Atonement I read but disliked. And a couple of ...
Okay, I'll have a go at this.
BOOKS
Gaudy Night
The Screwtape Letters
Les Miserables
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Cotillion
A Room with a View
Going Postal
I'm half way through Barchester Towers, and I reckon that'll end up on the list too.
AUTHORS
PG Wode ...
... planning a Master's thesis on him. I've seen it! (But not until last year.)
23) What is your favorite novel?
Hm. I love Les Miserables , but haven't reread it since 9th grade. Otherwise... Brideshead Revisited? A Passage to India? The God of Small Things?
24) Play?
Who's Afraid of V ...
... Usher *
15- The pit and the pendulum *
16- The three musketeers
17- Uncle Tom's cabin
18- Madame Bovary
19- Les miserables
20- Alice's adventures in wonderland
21- Little women *
22- Through the looking glass
23- Ben-Hur
24- The adventures of Huckeberry Finn
25- G ...
... So that one.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
My immediate answer is Russians, though I did really enjoy Les Miserables .
18) Roth or Updike?
Have read neither.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Easy. I dislike Sedaris and think Eggers is great.
20) Shakespeare, Milto ...
... made me think a lot about the books I love. I enjoyed it.
Best List
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Lord of the Rings by T.R.R. Tolkien
Middlemarch by George Eliot
To Kill a Mockingbird by Har ...
... So that one.
17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
My immediate answer is Russians, though I did really enjoy Les Miserables .
18) Roth or Updike?
Have read neither.
19) David Sedaris or Dave Eggers?
Easy. I dislike Sedaris and think Eggers is great.
20) Shakespeare, Milto ...
... - William Shakespeare (wouldn't this be covered in #14?)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
... Down - Richard Adams
3) Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
4) Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
6) Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides
7) The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (no one will agree with me on this, I know :/ )
8) The Po ...
Let's see...
43 read, 5 waiting patiently in my TBR pile. Poor Les Miserables has been waiting very, very patiently. Several years at least. Hopefully this summer I'll have time to give it the attention it deserves.
Really, it wasn't on the list yet!? I've read Les Miserables but don't know if I've read another 1001.
edit: Ha! I have read a 1001 that hasn't been listed yet! So, has anyone else read Ignorance by Milan Kundera?
... but, as I'm one of the ones who hasn't read it I don't know why I'm so surprised. Also hard to believe we haven't yet had Les Miserables . Anyone?
... Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
I'm impressed that I've read 48! I've 'touchstoned' the ones I've read. (Couldn't get the touchstones for Chronicles of Narnia or One ...
... yet finished!)
*98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
*99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
"46 read completely, and Shakespeare and Blyton collections, not read every one, but many of them.
Pass it on if it appeals to you!"
... but not exclusively ... sort of a sweeping history. I read a few pages at Borders and it seemed very riviting.
Les Miserables is one of my all time favorite books, so I will check out Ninety-Three ... Liberty sounds fascinating.
Sheesh, I'll have to narrow it down to two!!!
...
... and South), Mr Rochester (Jane Eyre, and, I know, the cliches keep rolling on), Jo March (Little Women), Enjolras (Les Miserables ).
God, I have way too many. Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables. Henry from The Real Thing. Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing. Sebastian Flyt ...
... Fabulous!
My first ten (though not necessarily top ten, not yet mentioned by others) that immediately come to mind:
Les Miserables
The Yawning Heights by Alexander Zinoviev
The Tunnel
The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
Hunger's Brides
Life And Fate
2666 ...
... Although War and Peace isn't going to supplant the position of "the best novel I've ever read" - that honor belongs to Les Miserables - it is now on my list of favorites. I'm giving it 5 stars, and to anyone who is thinking about reading it - I can guarantee that it will provide many many ...
... the feedback! I might have to go with Toilers of the Sea - I've never read it and I recall the pleasure with which I read Les Miserables . The long intro, done right, could be very fascinating I suppose. Also - I'll be doing a bunch of the reading at hot spring and somehow goes together - all ...
... the feedback! I might have to go with Toilers of the Sea - I've never read it and I recall the pleasure with which I read Les Miserables . The long intro, done right, could be very fascinating I suppose. Also - I'll be doing a bunch of the reading at hot spring and somehow goes together - all ...
... I can't put down. I'm always partial to reading a classic and I can remember the pleasure I had reading Anna Karenina, Les Miserables (speaking of which anybody ever read Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea? I've always been curious) or Sentimental Education. I was thinking of the ...
220:
Cosette, from Les Miserables ? (though, technically, she went to the Thernandiers before going to the mayor (Jean Val Jean)).
... st.
1. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
2. Emma by Jane Austen
3. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
4. Beowulf
5. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
6. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
7. ...
... May Alcott
97) Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
98) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll
99) Les Misérables -- Victor Hugo
100) The Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yes hemlokgang that sounds good, but(with one "t") members need to start voting for Les Miserables , pleaseeeeeee I already have the book, it's a fantastic story with many plots and unforgettable characters!
With 35 people voting so far, and there are no clear standouts yet?!
... after a great read, but it especially happened after The Crimson Petal and the White, Pillars of the Earth and Les Miserables .
What usually happens is I that I can't get into another book for ages. I'll keep starting lots of different ones. Then I give up on books for a few days ...
... found that it helped to have a series or group of books by the same author for comfort reads.
Similarly, when I finished Les Miserables I almost wanted to start re-reading immediately.
... splitters:
NCE of War and Peace: 1073 pages of text followed by 110 pages of commentary.
Modern Library edition of Les Miserables : 1194 pages of text followed by 136 pages of endnotes.
Split both? Just the first?
I just finished Sense and Sensibility and I'm working on Les Miserables and The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton.
I'll vote les miserables
I wouldn't mind re-reading the woman in white
Doctor Zhivago
I need to get hold of the Leopard soon!
edited to make touchstones work
I vote for:
The Forsyte Saga
Les Miserables
Anna Karenina
... Marilla and age helped instill some self-control, while Anne gave Marilla a bit more feeling and joy.
I bought a copy of Les Miserables so I'm not tied down to the library schedule. I still need to finish The Seven Storey Mountain and get it back to the library.
... books: I am looking forward to The Count of Monte Cristo (I *loved* The Three Musketeers) and also have Moby Dick, Les Miserables , Anna Karenina and The Idiot on my shelves. I want to get round to reading the rest of the Gormenghast Trilogy and finish Journey to the West.
Then ...
Re: msgs 28-29 >> For the record, WillSteed, I was only suggesting that a man who knows Les Miserables primarily through the musical would be perhaps interesting because of an interest in live theatre or he could be a dud if he has only a "Cliffs Notes" awareness of the book. I don't know that ...
I'll second Les Miserables , since I am deeply into French Lit this year and loving it.
I'd like to read Les Miserables in full, The Count of Monte Cristo, and more Charles Dickens while I'm at it, especially A Tale of Two Cities since I loved the abridged version in high school. I also plan to read Emma and have two versions of it, but it's my last Austen and I will mourn ...
I fancy a chunky one so I'm throwing Les Miserables back in the mix this time.
... finished Oswald Chambers, Abandoned to God by David McCasland. Very inspiring.
Next up, the book of Numbers, more in Les Miserables and The Seven Storey Mountain.
... our free library and they were having a book sale. 4 books for $1.00 I went a little crazy... Here is what I bought:
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Man of The Hour by Peter Blauner
The Desperate ...
I think I might bring along Les Miserables as a litmus test for a couple of benchmarks. For one thing, it is a *big* book -- would the other person find it too intimidating? I don't think I'd want to be with someone who couldn't handle big challenges. On the other hand, if he had actually read ...
Not a single book purchase in January! Having purchased a copy of Les Miserables last year helped - not a book to be read in a single evening - as did re-reading some gems.
Alas, I have now fallen off the canny spartan wagon. A boring day at work & my idle fingers ran away with me and ordered ...
... diversion and a good complement to other things I had to do this week.
But now I'm back to Seven Storey Mountain and Les Miserables . For real.
... Brothers. It may just be the longest book I have ever read. I can think of a few others with more pages (War and Peace, Les Miserables , perhaps even The Lord of the Rings), but, given the tiny print, Mann's book may just take it.
I have written a fair bit already in this thread about ...
I've never read The Miserables , but i've read A Heart-Shaped Box.
I love wombles. But it's so hard to stop with just one.
... I have an Orinocho hotwater bottle. He's so fluffy!
Um, oh yes, I've never read The Dogs of War
But I have read Les Miserables
... Of course, some people love those "errant" threads, like the chapters on the Paris sewer system and Waterloo in Les Miserables (a book I thought was terrific, anyway, as apparently Dostoevsky did, too).
Although I have always enjoyed those old Russians, and really appreciate a big, ...
...
And when she thought it was time for me to read more advanced books and to enter the world of "literature", she gave me Les Miserables for my birthday in 7th grade and that basically evolved my reading habits for the rest of my life. Now I know that I should read the truth and even the ...
... Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
Paradise Lost John Milton
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
The Trial Franz Kafka
The Inferno Dante ...
... for Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe which apparently has some opinions on Heart of Darkness.
I am also starting Les Miserables for the March Classics Bookclub over at 5minutesforbooks.com
I also added two more biographies to my list - Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God and George ...
Now here I must confess that I read the abridged version of Les Miserables - and I'm quite glad I did, having read the reviews about continual digressions. It was the story and the characters that I was hooked to, and the brevity of it that kept me going (I don't have a long concentration span).
...
isn't Les Miserables just a wonder of a book? i couldn't put it down when i first read it ages ago. i too love everything about it -- and in any form too...the musical is great...it's the only musical whose songs i know from start to finish! the movie interpretations i've seen are also well done. ...
8 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I really really enjoyed this book. Great story, characters you really came to care about. Loved the atmosphere of it. Very highly recommended.
9 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Not at all sure about this one. No question that it's very well written but I ...
In early 19th century Paris, immersed in Les Miserables . Wonderful.
... with Patagonia.
So although it was accomplished and well-written, it really wasn't what I was looking for.
Started Les Miserables this morning, and hooked already. Think it will be a quick read.
... World War
1 Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. 5*.
2 A Month in the Country by J L Carr. 3*
3 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. 5*.
4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. 5*.
5 Emma by Jane Austen. 4.5*.
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7
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Plenty of scope here, though seem to be ...
... Thrift, Wordsworth.
Probable reads:
Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Category 1: Global
1 A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro. Japan. 3.5*.
2 Les Miserables by Gaston Leroux. France. 4*.
3 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Nigeria. 3.5*.
4 Tibet, Tibet by Patrick French. 3.5*.
5 The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez. Argentina. 3.5*.
6 The V ...
... Goriot? Or take the path of expediency with Vautrin?
rosemeria--I only know from Dumas (Three Musketeers) and Hugo (Les Miserables )--they are epic stories, with poignant, not joyous, endings.
1. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Well, I only read the last few hundred pages in 2009, but I'm gonna count it anyway. Great book, but at times a bit lengthy (Do I really need to know the complete history of the sewers of Paris to understand the book?)
2. The Darkness that comes before ...
... how you phrased that: death does seem to permeate every page.
Also: Inspector Javert drowns himself in the Seine in Les Misérables .
edited for clarity
War and Peace and Les Miserables two of my all time favourite books.
I didn't read them back to back but did read them both in 2007
http://sites.google.com/site/meraciousincunabulum/Home/books-read-in-2007
as well as Clarissa
Come to think about it, those were BIG books "-)
It would be interesting to read War and Peace and Les Miserables back to back, considering both are about the Napoleonic Wars. And both are really, really long. Probably have to set aside a couple years for that project.
Another good war book is Dispatches by Michael Herr. Is it non-fict ...
... (I'll keep updating as I remember):
*= reread
Breaking Dawn
Harry, A History
Tales of Beedle the Bard
Wicked
*Les Miserables
Notre-Dame de Paris
Alice in Wonderland
Twlight
Frostbite
New Moon
Eclipse
Audacity of Hope
Letter to a Christian Nation
*God Delusi ...
... it simply isn't known as anything else in the site's language (Les Misérables * for example).
Les Miserables
... Expectations, Dickens, 1969
39. Silas Marner, George Eliot, 1960's
40. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev, 2008
41. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo , 1980's
42. Notes From the Underground, Dostoevsky, 1968
42. *Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, 2008
43. Alice's Adventures In Wonde ...
... through parts of it.
30 JP,
I LOVED Notre-Dame de Paris. I love French lit. more than American lit., and have Hugo's Les Miserables in my library and have read it 4 times.
... year in this last 2 years.
Saying that, in that time I have read some huge books like Clarissa, War and Peace and Les Miserables
Those works together are worth probably 30 average books.
I plan to read Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' complete six volumes unabridged and ...
... te
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when I suddenly dwelt on a realisation that Les Miserables by Victor Hugo was a shocking 114th.
I was also unnerved by War and Peace making it to 20th only.
However, after an emergency cup of tea (extra ...
... reading challenge. At the end of the day it's an adventure story and reads as such. Thus, it's actually a very quick read. Les Miserables is more difficult to read as is Don Quixote.
I read (and finished) The Tales of Beedle the Bard last night. I started on a reread of Les Miserables . Due to the length of my tbr list, when I visit the library on Monday, I'm going to get (and read) lots of books, including:
The Book Thief
more France travel guides
books on mythology
bo ...
Please don't vote in Les Miserables .
I have hundreds of books in my TBR continent, but not that one. Plus, I have my reading scheduled for the next few months, due to a little thing called "university courses that I've paid a lot of money to take and will be graded on." So I have no time for ...
I'd like to go with:
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables
The Leopard
Put me down for:
Les Miserables
O Pioneers! and
Petals of Blood
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
My three are:
Madame Bovary
Les Miserables
The Count of Monte Cristo
... (And I believe my aunt loves this one)
Although I've already read them, for anyone with concerns, I do recommend:
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
I've been on a French classic lit kick lately trying to read all the classics that I should ...
... make a list of nominations:
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Ex ...
... where I take four or five days off, plant myself on the couch and devour some big, fat classic like MADAME BOVARY, LES MISERABLES or WAR AND PEACE.
But as to whether that will ever actually happen...
(Sigh)
... I'm planning to read War and Peace first, unless the Group Reads: Literature group picks The Count of Monte Cristo or Les Miserables as their next book, in which case, that book will be the first I read. But I do look forward to reading it at some point next year, and I look forward to ...
Lots of good choices, I wouldn't mind tackling The Forsythe Saga (the first triology), Les Miserables or Madame Bovary. This will be my first group read with this group!
#36> I second Les Miserables , which just came out in a new English translation by Julie Rose. It is said to restore the flavor of the original, lost in the usual bowdlerized versions.
'Yes,' said the bishop.
les miserables .
... up for something French, and would like to throw my support behind The Count of Monte Cristo, Madame Bovary, and Les Miserables , since I was hoping to read them all next year anyway.
... is just too short yes.
Plus, I've already read it. :)
Although, I've also already read The Count of Monte-Cristo and Les Miserables . I'm waiting to go home for xmas to see what French novels I can recommend.
I can't decide if I want to go with Balzac, Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Aragon...
I'm up for the French read - especially Les Miserables as it has been staring at me reproachfully from the shelf where it sits for many years.
... mood for French...
Madame Bovary by Flaubert
Pere Goriot by Balzac
Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
Les Misérables by Hugo
... so in 2009 I think I'll venture towards French literature like Madame Bovary, Pere Goriot, Count of Monte Cristo, and Les Misérables .
Please help with suggestions of more French novels to put on my Christmas list.
I've read Les Miserables , but not The Count of Monte Cristo.
P.S. Correct spelling, Polly.
P.P.S. I've read Les Miserables in English, not in French; however, I do want to get the French edition of the book whenever I go to France.
... nudge goes to Of Mice and Men, second to Bleak House, third to Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath, and fourth to Les Miserables .
... One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gibson, William: Neuromancer
Gogol, Nikolai: short stories by
Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
James, P.D: The Children of Men
Macchiavelli: The Prince
Orwell, George: 1984
Scalzi, John: Old Man's War
Singh, Simon: The Code Book
Solzenits ...
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P.S. It'd be really interesting to know how they determine the price of the LE books - why is Ovid twice as expensive as Les Miserables and the Decameron?
... was sorting under the wrong letter. And it will also mask foreign-language titles sorting under incorrectly, such as Les Miserables
... classics (they didn't do much for me when I was younger and am still picky about them now), then three of my favorites are Les Miserables , The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Jane Eyre.
EDIT: Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series is also good, and I've also really enjoyed reading Cornelia ...
... day without reading The Secret History. After that, you should move on immediately to An Instance of the Fingerpost, Les Miserables and Jonathan Strange. Happy reading!
A mega nudge for both Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and Les Miserables !!!
I did enjoy The Secret History very much. I'll nudge that one.
I loved Gilead but I think I was in the minority.
Les Miserables is amazing - for the writing and for the story. Big though.
You can´t go wrong with Les Misérables , so i give it a strong nudge!
Re # 1: BorisG :I was introduced to Keeping's artwork when I purchased the 1976, Folio Press version of Les Miserables and was highly impressed with the poignant emotions that his work expressed. The lithographic techniques that he used in that publication were outstanding - actually superb.
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... a trilogy back then -- don't know about now) and a lot of Terry Brooks and his Shannara series.
Then, my mom gifted me Les Miserables by Victor Hugo saying it would change my life. And that is exactly what it did! Ever since then I've been reading the classics.
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews
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This is a tough one.
I LOVED Les Miserables , both the book and the musical.
The Scarlet Pimpernel was good as well.
Musicals that are better than the books they were adapted from I would have to vote for Wicked: and Jekyll and Hyde.
A few months back, on an earlier instalment of this thread, there was a discussion of the abridgement/translation of Les Miserables . The current issue of the TLS has a review by Graham Robb of Julie Rose's new translation for Viking. He doesn't think much of it, but the review has interesting ...
And I forgot to mention that I am reading Notre-Dame de Paris. I absolutely adore Les Miserables but I've already picked up Notre-Dame 4 times in my life and I haven't been able to get past the first 100 pages (character introductions) but I'm hoping that this time will be it. :)
... with modern languages is that it's not possible to make this distinction. You can't tell whether someone reading a French Les Misérables is a scholar/student or just someone whose native language is French. So, yes, the same argument about the desirability of a distinction holds for that work ...
In no particular order:-
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
Moby Dick
Les Miserables
Frankenstein
Bleak House
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Therese Raquin
... unabridged versions but consider the "education" you're getting! :-) (architecture in Notre Dame beats the sewers of Les Miserables !)
IMO The story is definitely worth the effort! But I love Victor Hugo.
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How many months did you spread Les Miserables
MusicMom, I also have a thing about reading unabridged editions of books. We read Les Miserables in book club several years ago and I absolutely loved it. So, yes, I am savoring Hunch :)
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Hunchback--I love this book! I read it a few years ago. I also loved Les Miserables --maybe even more. I read both in unabridged versions (I'm sort of compulsive about that) but my sons read Les Miserables in a good abridged version when ...
... then have to go search out a complete copy to compare. I love everything else about the book. I've also used the fact that Les Miserables is abridged as a shield against temptation. Alas, I have no such shield against many of their other limited editions.
Django: Is the LEC edition abridged? ...
In no particular order:
Les Miserables
The Black Tulip
Northanger Abbey
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Odyssey
Great Expectations
The Histories
Macbeth (do plays count?)
Madame Bovary
Moll Flanders
Compiling this, I realize just how few of the classic ...
... 72.81 200-page books
An absolutely fantastic book. It's the book that I've spent the longest reading (a week longer than Les Misérables , for instance), but it was well worth it.
... explaining it was four novels...but hey, who listens? It was a great book.
Some of my favorite thicky books are;
Les Miserables --Victor Hugo
Trinity--Leon Uris
Redemption--Leon Uris
Gone with the Wind-Margaret Mitchell
Lonesome Dove--Larry McMurtry
The Far Pavillions--M. ...
... Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens and The Risk Pool by Richard Russo. Plan to do the sane with Moby Dick and Les Miserables .
BUT I will NEVER pick up ANNA KARENINA again. Her troubled marriage, secret affair, and social repression meant nothing to me. Train whistle and ...
... Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens and The Risk Pool by Richard Russo. Plan to do the sane with Moby Dick and Les Miserables .
BUT I will NEVER pick up ANNA KARINENINA again. Her troubled marriage, secret affair, and social repression meant nothing to me. Train whistle and ...
... other ones not already on the list are Mythology: Edith Hamilton, I seem to recall the Book of Job, Sophie's World, Les Miserables , Catch-22.
... based on our ability to produce worthwhile things and that the aliens have a similar aesthetic sense to us.
Books: Les Miserables (although giving them a book that not only catalogues humanity's best but also its worst might be our downfall) and a book showing us trying to preserve ...
... fun! I like almost all your choices, but for variety will offer some different ones.
Books; Brothers Karamozov and Les Miserables (Give them long books, so they have to read them, which may give you more time if they do decide to destroy your planet.)
Music; A Love Supreme by John Colt ...
... approach them with cautious feet. Don't fear though!
I have to say some of my favorite books are certainly voluminous.
Les Miserables (1463 pages)
Don Quixote (1050 pages)
I had such a connection to Jean Valjean and the Don that maybe wouldn't have occured if they had been short books. ...
... about how they lived day to day.)
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy,
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo,Quo Vadisby Henryk Sienkiewicz and Ivanhoe and Quentin Durward, both by Sir Walter Scott are some more that I would recommend, as well ...
Les Miserables . GOD, I love Les Miserables ! It took me forever to read, (more because the book was awkward to hold than because it was slow), but I couldn't begrudge a second of the time I spent with it. Hugo does ramble something fierce, but it's good rambling. And Marius is very ...
I'd like to second (or more) Outlander, the Stand, Les Miserables , and Wraeththu. They were all fantastic!
I'd also like to throw out a tentative recommendation for Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. People either love it or hate it.
Les Miserables - it swept me away enough to distract me from an important American History exam. Oops.
... somewhat of a rarity I've read (something like 2% or so of men are INFJs), and two characters from the same classic novel, Les Miserables I've strongly identified with at different times in my life: Jean Valjean (when I was younger, idealistic, naive, religious) and Javert (now that I'm ...
... well.
Again, I'm only opposed to a publisher not being forthcoming about abridgments. I think most readers who wanted Les Miserables bought it despite the fact the Society sent it to Jenny Craig.
... publishers issuing abridgements. Disclosure should be full and open, however.
By the way, I love the Waterloo portion of Les Miserables and would sorely miss it if I bought the FS edition not knowing of the abridgement.
I also don't mind skillfull abridgments--as I mentioned in the thread on Les Miserables , the whole Waterloo episode is really a digression which only the most rabid purist would say was important to the novel. BUT, as I mentioned then, and as I seem to be hearing from several of the posters on ...
... with people's misgivings about abridged novels - particularly novels that have achieved classic status. I didn't mind the Les Miserables modest abridgement because the rambling discursiveness of the original would never have got past a modern commercial editor. But to abridge The Gulag Archipe ...
Why, as a matter of fact, I have read both The Brothers Karamazov *and* Les Miserables . Although not in the original.
The person below me has read some classic in the original language of the author and will tell us what it is.
Can't -- I have no opinion of it. In fact, I haven't read it.
The person below me has read Les Miserables
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
... the Society does present some works in an abridged form. Specifically, we were discussing the Limited Edition version of Les Miserables , which is an abridgment. Some offerings are published as "Selections" such as the 3 volume edition of Pepys' Diary, though if you can afford it (and I wish I ...
I just wondered if the cover and binding of Les Miserables were appealing to many of you. And I discover uncultured's definitive statement in #20:
I do have a general comment about the Limited Editions though: Nice as they are, some of them just have AWFUL cover designs. (...) There are ...
... on a plane and a man took the aisle seat next to me. He glanced at my book and said, "This is the summer you read* Les Misérables ."
"It sure is," I replied.
He shrugged. "We all had one."
*past tense
... 5
The Tin Drum - 5
Magic Mountain - 4
Vanity Fair - 4
The Count of Monte Cristo - 4
Independent People - 4
Les Miserables - 3
The Invisible Man - 3
The Cairo Trilogy - 3
Dead Souls - 2
Howard's End - 2
The Brothers Karamazov - 2
The Betrothed - 2
As A Man Grow ...
Well, here we are in July, the production for Les Miserables is stated as June in the promotional material, and the payment for mine, which I ordered the first day it was announced on the website, has not yet shown up on my bank statement. So......o, I called the Society this morning and was told ...
Madame Bovary, Les Miserables and Don Quixote are at the top of my interests list, but Independent People or one of the Italian books would be interesting as well (I think aluvalibri is right about Italian literature being overlooked; I admittedly know very little of Italian literature)
... with The Idiot, and I'll also say The Count of Monte Cristo, just to add more to the mix (like we need it). I read Les Miserables a long time ago, but I wouldn't mind joining in the discussions on that one.
... thread.
I'm voting for some weightier tomes this time, so my suggestions are:
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
I promised myself I'd only suggest 3 but the last one just slipped in ...
... Bindery" approach, which seems to me to be very much the approach the FS has taken with their limited edition Decameron, Les Miserables , Don Quixote, etc. I much prefer that each book be designed the way a bespoke suit of clothes is designed--to fit the character and frame of the wearer.
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... acceptable one. (I gather that the Folio Society in fact took this approach themselves in the past--see their forthcoming Les Miserables ). What I find less than worthy of such a great organization is when they bring out a Tolstoy in fancy (and expensive) dress and use a translation that has ...
Quite a bit from Dante to Dostoyevsky, Macbeth to Les Miserables is criminal, not to mention The Book of Genesis onward, never mind Hansel and Gretel, the Mahabarata, The Third Policeman - need we continue?
If 'great literature' means ANYTHING - that isn't a crime in ...
... that is only tenuously integrated to the novel. In fact, 39 yeas after the Limited Editions Club printed their complete Les Miserables , they published The Battle of Waterloo A Romantic Narrative, which is the whole episode plucked from the novel and sent out to stand on its own legs (with ...
... burning through my limited limited edition budget so fast that I'm not sure when/if I will be able to pull the trigger on Les Miserables . I too would like to see more variety in these editions but I still would pick this one up if possible.
I too have succumbed to the lure of Les Miserables and ordered my copy. I'm sorry that Sean didn't like the Keeping lithographs from the 1976 Folio Press edition - I much prefer them to the fussy period engravings used in this edition. The Society used to be very fond of using lithographs that ...
... of Ulysses too, and I don't think this is a sort of book I should be getting a Limited Edition of. I'll keep my money for Les Miserables , when it appears.
... of Ulysses too, and I don't think this is a sort of book I should be getting a Limited Edition of. I'll keep my money for Les Miserables , when it appears.
... series. So I consider them "off beat"
As for my "old" books, I like to collect the "classics". I have a copy of Les Miserables that is rather old, as well as some Longfellow, and Rudyard Kipling. I'm just starting out, but my collection grows constantly.
Hugo is great. I loved Les Miserables , but you can skip the Waterloo chapter not a problem.
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one to prefer the unabridged versions. The only abridged book I've ever read was Les Miserables , and that is because we had to for English class. Okay, maybe I read other abridged books for English classes. But in my own life, I prefer to finish the whole ...
Whoops, I forgot one more M-book: Moby-Dick.
A bit long-winded in the scientific parts, much like Les Miserables was long-winded in historic parts, but a classic novel.
Funny, I just finished reading Melville's short book Billy Budd and I didn't like it at all.
-- M1001
So, I'd be up for either Les Miserables or The Magic Mountain (if pushed to narrow it down to two for the sake of expediency!) but they all sound like great reads and even the ones I've already read, I'd be happy to re-read! Looking forward to the next one...
I'd put in my vote for either Les Miserables or Madame Bovary.
Guess it is time for a letter bump again.
M-Books:
I will have to go with Les Miserables . The characters and the story are all picture perfect in the dramatic portion of the novel. My absolute favorite protagonist/antagonist pairing is Jean Valjean and Javert.
My only criticism is I ...
... Thomas Mann = 2
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas = 2
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy = 2
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo = 3
The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky = 3
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte = 4
Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ...
... harder bits.
My vote for next book would go to any of the following:
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Madame Bovary
Les Miserables
The Age of Innocence
The Portrait of a Lady
My votes are for (most are listed above already):
Wuthering Heights
Madame Bovary
Les Miserables
Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo. I can recall being moved to tears as I read it back in 1972 when, as an idealistic young nurse, I worked in a maximum security psychiatric prison hospital.
... classics, so what about heading down the road of America and France? My suggestions:
The Bostonians by Henry James
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
... Hawthorne
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island ...
... Hawthorne
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island ...
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Hah, I do that, too!
Well, I try to read a mix of books and if I am deep into a really long novel, like Les Miserables or Life: A User's Manual or Infinite Jest or Moby-Dick, I have parallel short books that I am reading at the same time.
I am currently reading Billy B ...
I also have the 1976 Folio Press edition of Les Miserables , and like appaloosaman, find the lithographs by Charles Keeping to be the highlight of the book.
After looking over all of the FS titles I have that are bound by Real Lachenmaier: War and Peace, Decameron, The Four Gospels, and F ...
I also have the 1976 Folio Press edition of Les Miserables , and like appaloosaman, find the lithographs by Charles Keeping to be the highlight of the book.
After looking over all of the FS titles I have that are bound by Real Lachenmaier: War and Peace, Decameron, The Four Gospels, and F ...
I have the 1976 edition of Les Miserables - it's not tecnically a FS publication as it is published by The Folio Press, i.e. it was offered to the public through the book trade. The translator was Norman Denny - it's very readable and the Charles Keeping illustrations are magnificent. I would buy ...
I'll be interested to see what the limited edition of Les Miserables will be like. They published the novel back in 1976 in two volumes with lithographs by Charles Keeping. Although the Folio 50 doesn't give the name of the translator, it states that it was specially commissioned by the FS.
A ...
... of text -- almost 3,000 pages longer than the longest work I'd ever read before this (the wonderful Penguin translation of Les Misérables ).
I should reiterate that I'm doing this strictly of my own volition. Yes, I'm a recovering Romanticist who's making the move towards Modernism and ...
... are a villain. They think they are doing the right thing when they are doing evil things. An example would be Javert in Les Miserables .
-- M1001
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I'd ballpark it io about as many as I could have bought in the time it took to read Les Miserables
I read the unabridged Les Miserables when I was 16, and though sometimes I was frustrated when ten chapters were devoted to a minor character, in hindsight I'm glad I read the book in its entirety (and merely skimmed the Waterloo section). I only regret that I couldn't read it in its original Fre ...
I find many translated foreign classics, like Don Quixote, Les Miserables and The Three Musketeers easier to read than their English counterparts. The reason is a modern translation "fixes" the archaic English problem that plagues so many of the English classic novels.
-- M1001
... and Liberty.
Next up, The Secret Agent by Conrad; have had this one on my shelf for a good while now...
As for Les Miserables , #96, it really is worth sticking with!
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Handmaid's Tale
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit (2-3 times)
Les Miserables (2 times)
Lord of the Rings (2 times)
The Lovely Bones
Never Let Me Go
NIGHT ...again, no touchstone?
Nine Stories
The Outsiders
Pride and P ...
... ER this month, Black Tower. I think maybe Victor Hugo helped me, since he based both protagonist and antagonist in Les Miserables on Vidocq, and I have some miscellanious historical psychological fiction/detective stories as well.
Les Miserables . I have this book in my TBR pile. I actually started to read this book and couldn't get past the first few pages. I tried, I really did, but the book was putting me to sleep!
I heard that it's like this for the first few hundred and then gets good, but oh my goodness, I don' ...
... of Gilgamesh 2 lists
19) Lord of the rings 2 lists
20) Le Petit Prince 2 lists
21) Anna Karenina 2 lists
22) Les Miserables 2 lists
23) Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
24) Jane Eyre 2 lists
25) My Antonia 2 lists
25) Stepphenwolf 2 lists
26) The things they carried 2 ...
Does anyone know anything about this forthcoming Modern Library edition of Les Miserables , 978-0679643333? Translated by a Julie Rose, 1376 pages - I hope it's a real live from-scratch unabridged thing. I've been wanting to read the book for some time, but was afraid to get it in a translation ...
... take on Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett plays around a lot with threads from Les Miserables .
If you have a lot of time on your hands, why not read the unabridged version of Les Misérables
... In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
6. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
7. Don Quijote Miguel Cervantes
8. Les Miserables Victor Hugo
9. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
10. A Tale of two Cities Charles Dickens
11. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
12. To Kill a Mockin ...
... Margaret Atwood
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Rabbit Rich by John Updike
Saturda ...
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18. The Aeneid
19. The Republic
20. The Origin of Species
21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
22. Les Misérables
23. The Oresteia
24. Flowers for Algernon
25. Flatland
I've stopped worrying about length because I've found it doesn't matter. For example, I zoomed through Les Miserables , and Doctor Faustus, on the other hand, is taking forever (not because I don't like it, I just find I need to take a breather after each chapter). I'll be curious to see how I ...
I think my favorite book that I was ever required to read for school was Les Misérables , which I was lucky enough to "have to" read twice - once in my senior year of HS in English class, and once in my sophomore year of college in French class. Not only did I get to read this great book twice, ...
There is a wonderful treatise on the sewers of Paris in Les Miserables , and likewise on the architecture of Paris in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
One can learn much about sailing boats and their construction from Rebecca.
Hmmm, I said the unabridged version of Les Miserables , but to be perfectly honest, I skipped through the Waterloo chapters. I browsed them to make sure I wasn't missing anything relating to the plot, and a good thing too because the last of those chapters describes a key event involving Thenardier ...
I read Les Miserables years ago because I had tickets to see the musical but didn't know much about the story. I loved the book but it ruined the play for me - it seemed like an absolute sprint through the story, sort of like the 30-second animated bunnies movie remakes on cable TV. I'd ...
Don't see any Victor Hugo in your library, so how about Les Miserables ? Unabridged, of course. 1488 pages.
... and A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon, and many many more
France -- The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, and others
Germany -- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Greenland --The Transformation by Mette Newth
India -- The God of Small Things by ...
... to Arms
4. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
t5. The Painted Veil
t5. Swann's Way
Honorable Mention
Atonement
Les Miserables
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
I'm reading several books.
Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Histories by Herodotus
I find it helps me to read from several different genres at once so as not to become burnt out reading any one ...
I just started reading Les Miserables and so far it is boring. I'm having to force myself to keep reading.
This occurred yesterday:
Les Miserable by Victor Hugo
David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky in a volume that includes other titles.
The City of Fallen Angels by John Berendt in preparation for a trip to Venice in October
The cambridge dictionary of philosophy
the Oxford ...
I'm like a runaway train; nothing can stop me now!
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Odyssey by Homer
And because I need another ...
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I'd be tempted to bring in a big, hardback copy of say War and Peace or Les Miserables then, next time your cow-orker makes with the anti-reading comments, 'accidentally' whup her upside the head, saying 'And that's the power of books for ya!'
dreamlikecheese:
The same thing happened to me when I tried to read a horribly-edited Barnes & Noble edition of Les Miserables . If you try Kidnapped again, I recommend one of the nice N.C. Wyeth-illustrated editions, or (even better), the original text edition: Kidnapped; or, The Lad ...
#1 -- Les Miserables , "Castle on a Cloud," Cosette.
Next:
"Not for me, the happy home,
Happy husband, happy wife . . ."
(Edited to clarify which I was answering)
I am posting on this so late, it has become a "Books I Finished in January 2008" entry.
My big one for this month was Les Miserables which I finally finished last week. Great book, but man, it is LONG!
I also finished Pereira Declares: A Testimony because I had to read a short book after ...
Definitely Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. It may be one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful--yet wildly inspiring--pieces of literature I have ever read. Certainly the most honest portrayal of self-sacrifice that I have come across.
... by Ian McEwan
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
And I have also gotten:
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Funny thing about people's tastes. I loved every word of Les Miserables . Every one of them. I also read Dracula, then Frankenstein. I hated Frankenstein. Talk about boring and pedantic. Ugh. Dracula is one of my favorite adventure/horror stories.
While I have never thought that I could ...
I have started and stopped Les Miserables more times than I can count... it is time to grit my teeth and READ the thing.
Also Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain is one I have intended to read for quite some time now.
... a phase of buying Thomas Hardy novels when I was about thirteen as well, so I've got a few of those to get through. Les Miserables as well. (Wordsworth Classics started coming out around when I was 13 - they were only a pound and I bought quite a lot of them and never managed to read a ...
... might pose the same problem for me.
My goals to read are as follows:
Big Books: New Testament
Les Miserables
Gone with the Wind
Ladies of the Club
Into the Wilderness
Classics: Last of the Mohicans
...
#13 &17 I read Les Miserables unabridged over a summer, kept the book handy and read when I could. I needed breaks with this book, but it was a great feeling when I finally finished it just as school was starting.
So with these inspirational words floating around, I guess I should attempt ...
Mine has been to read the unabridged version of Les Miserables . I really enjoyed the abridged version and want to know what was left out, but my friends' opinions and the book's size are both daunting. I read War and Peace, so I think it's mostly the many sidetracks that I know Les Mis has ...
If we're going to talk about books which were made into musicals, Les Miserables , Don Quixote, Jane Eyre, and The Kiss of the Spiderwoman also come immediately to mind.
... a book's size is dictated by the length of the work itself. To avoid minuscule type size, the fine press editions of Les Miserables , War and Peace, and Don Quixote are normally large and bulky. The Folio Society's 6-volume The Arabian Nights needs the extra size (though they are ...
... works.
My choices for this challenge might include:
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Imajica by Clive Barker
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub ...
Oh! I forgot To Kill a Mockingbird, that book is amazing!
Also forgot:
-Les Miserables (listening to soundtrack now, so I just remembered)
-The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Cannot believe I forgot that earlier!)
-Lonesome Dove (slipped my mind for some weird reason)
Hey ...
Am reading Les Miserables and also just quickly read High-Rise. Of my 300+ TBR books, only 17 are on the 1001 list, so I need to mix it up and am now reading From to the Earth to the Moon, not on the list.
I've been kind of flaky on the list this month, jumping off to read some other books instead.
Right now, I am reading Les Miserables , which is my "big book" for the quarter. Waiting patiently in the wings are a couple of lighter reading: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and Thank You, Jee ...
Not since there started being more ads than actual news copy in the magazine.
The person below me has read all of Les Miserables in an unabridged edition, albeit not in the original French.
... Of course, I once had a highschool literature teacher tell me that I obviously don't like to read because I prefered Les Miserables over Ethan Fromme-to this day, I can't read Edith Wharton. I'm the same way with poetry.
But speaking of Lolita, I read Reading Lolita in Tehra ...
#19 I agree. I am reading Les Miserables right now and it is pretty good so far.
#13 Kiwi, establishing the background of the bishop Bienvenu is critical even though he isn't the protagonist; he is still one of the most important characters in the novel because of the *massive* moral effect ...
... Forester
Sharon Kay Penman
Mary Stewart
I'm going to work on the following big books:
New Testament
Les Miserables
Gone with the Wind
Ladies of the Club
I'm going to work on the following classics:
Last of the Mohicans
Lord of the Rings - yes, believe it or ...
Kiwi--Les Miserables does get better after those chapters. I remember finishing it and feeling like starting it all over again right then.
Ulysses my copy is the same heft as War and Peace.
Les Miserables which has already been mentioned does scare me. I read War and Peace quite happily when I was 17 (enjoyed it) and when I had finished decided to tackle Les Mis next... well seven boring chapters in all about a priest, I ...
... books from the 1001 list so far? Let's see . . . War and Peace, Lord of the Rings, Don Quixote, Gone with the Wind, Les Miserables , Infinite Jest, U.S.A., Cryptonomicon, Suitable Boy and The Taebek Mountains (the last one which apparently no one has ever seen). Any others?
I ...
... castle, at least not far enough to actually get to Howl. Glad I did though.
The DaVinci Code. Caddie Woodlawn. Les Miserables - I really, really, really tried on Les Mis, because I had a friend who lived for it, and we both loved the musical. But it just wouldn't take. The Witching H ...
Les Misérables is about 1400 pages (varies with the edition/translation.) Anna Karenina, I think. A lot of the older books on the list are over 1000, I think. Cryptonomicon is around 1000 pages. Infinite Jest is over 1000.
Edited to add U.S.A, which is kind of cheating, since it's a ...
... though it has a place on my shelf. Perhaps I should start with one of the shorter classic Russian novels. My big novel is Les Miserables , although I usually get stuck when Cosette grows up. She irritates me something chronic.
... (my other favorite book ever) and one on Uncle Vanya by Chekhov.
Other years we read A Tale of Two Cities, Les Miserables , Silas Marner, Great Expectations, The Catcher in the Rye, Heart of Darkness (which I have read three times and still can't stand), The Grapes of Wra ...
... that take a problem-focus on aspects of life that are just gone and forgotten, like Scarlet Letter or Uncle Tom or Les Miserables . A few of them are good reads (none of those just mentioned) but they are hard work to get through. (As academics in the humanities, the Fogies flatly reject ...
... wrote, although all his other stuff is phenomenal, too)
J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings trilogy
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (I've even read it in the original French - it's a masterpiece)
Ayn Rand - all of her stuff, really, but Atlas Shrugged especially
Ralph Ellison - ...
... by C.S. Lewis
Miracles by C.S. Lewis
The Confessions of St. Augustine
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Spirit of the Liturgy by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Honorable mention:
Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis ...
... they are so long (or longer than your average novel), including War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, The Jungle and Les Misérables .
-- M1001
I do read long novels, and I can't believe I've only read one in this list! (Les Miserables ).
... many times to count!
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Cyrano de Bergerac
Les Miserables
Ransom
Paradise
Whitney, My Love
So in a previous thread I swore not to pick up another book until I finished Les Miserables buuuut......I'd left it at home one day and needed something to read on my lunch hour! So I grabbed Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and got through it in about 2 days. Really a great read, and ...
... (general) Totto-chan
PQ—French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature Les Misérables
PR—English literature Northanger Abbey
PS—American literature The Sound and the Fury
PT—German literature - Dutch literature - Flemish ...
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally
Emma - Jane Austen
esotericspryte (#46), how long have you been working on Les Miserables
Still working my way through Les Miserables which I will hopefully finish by mid-month. I'd stopped about halfway through to read Harry Potter 6 and 7 but I refuse to allow myself to pick up any other books until I've conquered this :)
... I'm not, Zhivago's serious and straightforward approach gave me more insight into the period.
What did you dislike about Les Miserables ? It's probably more akin to Dickens than to Pasternak, with its emphasis on plot development. I always like a thread of suspense in a novel, though not at ...
... of yesterday and today, the following books have ended up on my TBR Mountain:
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Les Miserables Vol. 1 & 2 by Victor Hugo
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Women in Love by D ...
Another three books from The Works today, courtesy of their wonderful 3 for £5 classics:
Les Miserables Vol. 1 by Victor Hugo
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
... Haddon
From The Works (3 for £5 classics)
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Except I discovered when I got home that I'd actually only got Vol.2 of Les Miserables , so I'll have the perfect excuse to buy more ...
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester also goes with The Count of Monte Cristo, as does Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra but I prefer to keep Hugo and Dumas together.
Quite a few are great literature but that's just because that's my genre of choice. :)
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Blindness Jose Saramago
Portrait in Sepia Isabel Allende
The Things they Carried Tim O'Brien
Les racines du ciel Romain Gary
Le fusil de chasse and Shirobamba Yasus ...
I know Les Miserables has been mentioned a lot but if you've never read it and are daunted by it's 1,000 plus pages, at least read the first 100 or so pages which describes the village priest who helps Jean Valjean. I can't think of a better portrait ever written of a Christian man in all of ...
... or The Hunchback of Notre Dame does an excellent job with describing the cathedral. I must admit that I haven't yet read Les Miserables
Slightly out of the 19th century, The Phantom of the Opera is certainly fictionalized, but, it's always made me want to tour the Palais Gardiner.
... The Da Vinci Code seems to be situated in New York, as well as Brothers Karamazov. Oh, and I’m happy to know that Les Misérables is a satire. And finally, Canterbury stories by Chaucer, The DaVinci Code, Brave New World, 1984, Slaughterhouse five and The Island of Dr. Mo ...
... The Da Vinci Code seems to be situated in New York, as well as Brothers Karamazov. Oh, and I’m happy to know that Les Misérables is a satire. And finally, Canterbury stories by Chaucer, The DaVinci Code, Brave New World, 1984, Slaughterhouse five and The Island of Dr. Mo ...
... twice, changing the young/old question. I guess on days when I feel young I'm Catch-22 and on days when I feel old I'm Les Miserables .
Young: Incredibly witty and funny, you have a taste for irony in all that you see. It seems that life has put you in perpetually untenable situations, and ...
Am halfway through the Penguin paperback version of Les Miserables . Finally saw a production of the musical and was compelled to read the book. Am enjoying thus far. Though it is not an unabridged edition, it is darn near complete. I can live with that.
... include the fiction of Shakespeare, you could expand this to include other fiction classics as well... such as Moby Dick, Les Miserables , Don Quixote... works by authors like Dumas, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Twain and one of my personal favorites, Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa...
I'm still ...
I'm looking forward to MyRevolutions: A Novel by Hari Kunzru. It's due out at the end of August.
Also: Clare Morrall has a new one coming out in March, 2008: The Language of Others.
... on the screen and could have hardly told the difference between it and the 1830s insurrection Victor Hugo portrayed in Les Miserables .
As for "Anglo-Saxon" parenting... that's kind of a big category. I can't claim to know much about how the British raise their children, but as a reader ...
...
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
It began in Vauxhall Gardens by Jean Plaidy
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The history of Amelia by Henry Fielding
... that had little or nothing to do for the story line. It was kind of long winded.
That's one of my favorite things about Les Miserables , though. 35 pages on the Battle of Waterloo. How can you not love that?
... just how I am. I can finish most books in 2 to 3 days, I never feel like I'm bogged down. Though, when I get around to Les Miserables and War and Peace, I'm sure I may feel bogged down, but I still won't pick up something else as that would just encourage me to procrastinate with the ...
I just started Les Miserables . The unabridged version is quite...dense.
... variety of other misfortunes in a very short period of time. When it rains it pours. As far as novels go, Jane Eyre and Les Miserables , read at a tender age, helped point me towards my interest in history. I had to go digging around for more info on Victorian England and post-Napoleanic Fran ...
... Descending Siberia's Waterway Of Exile, Death And Destiny - Jeffrey Tayler
Give Sorrow Words - Maryse Holder
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Les Misérables nuts?! That one took me six months -- yes, months -- of unemployment to read in English !
... not to go crazy - I'll have to send half of them home by slow mail, because it's too much weight...
One day I'll try Les Miserables in French, but I'm a little daunted by it still.
... I'll probably remember my 20's differently. Not sure if that makes sense. If I was to say right now it would probably be Les Miserables , The Prodigal Summer and A Fine Balance.
Gone With the Wind, Les Miserables and The Witching Hour took me a month each the first time through, even though I enjoyed them. Subsequent readings have gone much more quickly.
Oliver Twist also took up about a month, and in less pleasant fashion. I would have thrown it down in ...
... awhile, something like 10 years. I'm committed to reading it because my daughter loved it, but I'm on sabbatical from it. Les Miserables took me forever, but more because I wanted to savour every word. Loved it.
... the street named them Romeo and Juliet.
There is another (stray) cat that my sister calls Cosette after the character in Les Miserables .
... - Anthony Burgess
State of Fear - Michael Crichton
It - Stephen King
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
On Writing - Stephen King (nonfiction book of his that is simply fantastic, especially if you're ...
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
A Dangerous Mourning from Anne Perry
Vanity Fair by Thackeray
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
... dog, though.
If I had either a lean, grey cat or a pale, fluffy cat, I'd name it Gavroche after a character from Les Miserables .
... Interweave
Knit Socks! (Knit) by Betsy McCarthey
Shadowplay (Shadowmarch, Vol. 2) by Tad Williams
Hardcase (A Joe Kurtz Novel) by Dan Simmons - after being vastly disappointed by Ilium and Olympos, I decided to try some of the other things Simmons has written. I ...
... Beatrice)
And women from Medieval Romances (Chriseyde, Iseult/Isolde, Guinevere)
Plus your standard Cosette (Les Miserables , Eugenie from Eugenie Grandet
Good Luck!
... the Vampire - Anne Rice
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Again, I totally understand ...
... in from my English class are A Prayer for Owen Meany, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, and Les Miserables . There have been others that I could tolerate, but those have been the only books that I truly enjoyed.
This was hard, I've had some great reading so far.
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart, children's book
The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Mark of the Christian by Francis Schaeffer
Léna, il faut réessayer Hugo, peut-être, avec Les Misérables . Je le relis chaque été! Oui, je relis mes livres. Surtout chez ma mère, à la campagne. ça complète le sentiment d etre rentrée à la maison.
I'll also give my hearty approval to Les Miserables - wonderful themes of redemption. I also love Charles Dickens, especially Nicholas Nickleby and A Tale of Two Cities.
... read, but someone else is owning, or babysitting for me...
Say, anyone actually read The Hunchback of Notre Dame or Les Miserables besides me?
... and left convulsing on the floor in an advanced state of withdrawal after reading the last word of each of their books (Les Miserables , Mother Night, Of Human Bondage, and Catcher in the Rye, respectively). I still feel, with the exception of Franny and Zooey in Salinger's case, that ...
I tried twice to read Les Miserables and failed, so now I'm getting it a page a day online, and it's much easier this way. I tend to read quickly, which I find is not the right way to read this, so limiting myself to a page a day is perfect. His writing is dense with meaning, and is multi-levele ...
... shames me, I'm afraid. Of course The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Magic Mountain, The Vivisector, Voss, Les Miserables , The Glass Bead Game, Beowulf, Don Quixote, Nostromo, The Tale of Genji and Piers Ploughman. A comprehensive lack of interest in some of the ...
Maybe Jean Valjean from Les Miserables . I think he is one of the most noble characters in literature. Noble in a good way, not in a cloying, goody-goody way.
I never hesitate to recommend Victor Hugo's Les Miserables as a truly moving story of grace and redemption.
... of The Sparrow.
Of course, I'm as much a fan of Literary Fiction as SF/Fantasy. I often list as my two favorite novels: Les Miserables and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
As to television productions of literary novels, I think primarily of Masterpiece Theater productions...which were ...
... Le Petit Prince as a warmup, then move on to Candide, and if I feel like I remember enough French by then I'll tackle Les Misérables .
#23 lindsacl
You'll finish Les Miserables in no time once you are into it, it is a real page turner to match the like of Count of Monte Cristo. Racy, gritty and compelling, highly recommended! (as is Monte Cristo for another big French one.)
Most of my reads are in the 300-400 page range. But I have been thinking about reading Les Miserables . I might wait until I'm a little further along toward my 50-book goal, but am interested in hearing thoughts on this work and whether it's a "bigger book" worth tackling ... thanks!
... love it when they've left all kinds of notes in the margins! If they're good notes, anyway. My library's copy of Les Miserables is full of great little margin-notes. It made it so much fun to read, plus I got full warning when Hugo was about to go on one of his lengthy digressions: ...
Les Miserables unabridged version is beautiful, and so is one of Hugo's other books, Ninety-Three, (Quatre-Vingt Treize). and Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, unabriged.
... Polish phrase book author and the one of the guitar method, are not the same as Victor Hugo, the famous writer of i.a. Les Misérables .
Another problem is that private library book and author data are mixed with those of disclosed ones. This is a problem indeed, because we cannot ...
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