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darchildreI think I may have some sort of Victor Hugo-induced Stockholm Syndrome. I just finished the digression on the Paris street urchin (and how Paris is the best city ever, did you know?) and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I am also thoroughly enjoying how ridiculous Marius is. Oh god, he is so absurd! He has just fallen madly in love with Napoleon (who is dead, let me point out) - it is hilarious. He had new calling cards made, giving himself a title that Napoleon gave his father and thus Marius would have inherited if not for the whole return-of-monarchy thing but Marius has no friends and no one to give calling cards to, so they just sit in his pocket. Oh, he is so terrible, it is amazing.
Also amazing - the wacky nun-related shenanigans of the previous book. Valjean has accidentally entered a convent and needs to sneak out of the convent in order to come back into the convent when he has permission to be there. Fortunately, one of the nuns has just died and wanted to be buried under the altar, which is against all kinds of health and safety laws. But the head of the convent does not care! She should be able to bury nuns wherever she wants! So they bury the nun under the altar and the gardener sneaks Valjean out in the empty coffin that they have to bury in the municipal cemetery, pretending the dead nun is in it. And Valjean is almost buried alive! They must have cut this out of the abridged version I once had because I think I would have remembered Valjean almost being buried alive. Because it is awesome.
I love reading this one my kindle, because I feel no qualms whatsoever about highlighting or leaving notes in an electronic book and so my copy of Les Miz is now covered in highlighted passages, just because I thought they were neat. It's pretty great.
I am also thoroughly enjoying how ridiculous Marius is. Oh god, he is so absurd! He has just fallen madly in love with Napoleon (who is dead, let me point out) - it is hilarious. He had new calling cards made, giving himself a title that Napoleon gave his father and thus Marius would have inherited if not for the whole return-of-monarchy thing but Marius has no friends and no one to give calling cards to, so they just sit in his pocket. Oh, he is so terrible, it is amazing.
Also amazing - the wacky nun-related shenanigans of the previous book. Valjean has accidentally entered a convent and needs to sneak out of the convent in order to come back into the convent when he has permission to be there. Fortunately, one of the nuns has just died and wanted to be buried under the altar, which is against all kinds of health and safety laws. But the head of the convent does not care! She should be able to bury nuns wherever she wants! So they bury the nun under the altar and the gardener sneaks Valjean out in the empty coffin that they have to bury in the municipal cemetery, pretending the dead nun is in it. And Valjean is almost buried alive! They must have cut this out of the abridged version I once had because I think I would have remembered Valjean almost being buried alive. Because it is awesome.
I love reading this one my kindle, because I feel no qualms whatsoever about highlighting or leaving notes in an electronic book and so my copy of Les Miz is now covered in highlighted passages, just because I thought they were neat. It's pretty great.
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Date: 2013-01-24 03:24 pm (UTC)I'm reading Le Fanu's House by the Churchyard right now and enjoying pages and pages describing a Royal Irish Artillery dinner, especially the bits involving the obvious fanboy Lieutenant who possesses both a theatrical obsession and a terrible lisp. But the book is supposed to be a ghost story, so I don't even... Well, maybe I do.
I chose to blame all this on reading Moby Dick back when I was a vulnerable undergraduate. It's left me subject to a literary hijacking every now and then.