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Jan. 22nd, 2013 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreI have gotten past the Convent Digression* in Les Miserables! I feel ridiculously proud of myself. Possibly now that I have properly gotten through the Bishop and Waterloo, everything else feels easier.
Also, after you get through the preliminary convent stuff, it's like someone dropped a Gothic novel into the middle of Les Miz. Those are some seriously hardcore nuns in a seriously creepy nunnery - I'm honestly a little surprised that it didn't turn out to be haunted or full of secret Satanist witches.
I suppose that would be a very different book, though.
*Okay, I will admit that I skimmed the chapter where Victor Hugo goes, "And now that I have told you about the hardcore nuns and the creepy nunnery, let me tell you in exacting detail about the physical layout of the convent!" But that is mostly because I do not think very visually and don't really build mental pictures when I read, which makes passages of pure static visual description with nothing happening really really boring and kinda frustrating.
And this is why, unless there has been some sort of film adaptation that I have watched a lot, I have no idea what the characters in my favorite books look like. Except that almost none of them are blonde - apparently, in my mind, fictional people just aren't.
Also, after you get through the preliminary convent stuff, it's like someone dropped a Gothic novel into the middle of Les Miz. Those are some seriously hardcore nuns in a seriously creepy nunnery - I'm honestly a little surprised that it didn't turn out to be haunted or full of secret Satanist witches.
I suppose that would be a very different book, though.
*Okay, I will admit that I skimmed the chapter where Victor Hugo goes, "And now that I have told you about the hardcore nuns and the creepy nunnery, let me tell you in exacting detail about the physical layout of the convent!" But that is mostly because I do not think very visually and don't really build mental pictures when I read, which makes passages of pure static visual description with nothing happening really really boring and kinda frustrating.
And this is why, unless there has been some sort of film adaptation that I have watched a lot, I have no idea what the characters in my favorite books look like. Except that almost none of them are blonde - apparently, in my mind, fictional people just aren't.
