/lit/ - Literature

>>23489143

I'm just gonna say it - Fantine was a dumb ho.

>muh poor fugitive
>Muh poor whore
>Muh poor daughter of a whore
>Muh poor Septemberists
>Muh poor Bounartists
>Muh poor graverobber
>Muh poor rebelling students

I wish I could learn French well enough to read it in its original language, but alas

Opinions?

How is this?

Book Review: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Pros
-Epic
-Challenges notions of morality, rationality, and instinct
-Mystifies the human experience
-Memorable characters
-Strong emotional effect
-Educational of French culture
-Cross-country reading (if you are into that sort of thing)
-Descriptive
-Immersive
-Romantic
-Promotes self-reflection
-Extinct (perhaps never existing) gentry behaviors/mannerisms/moralities.
-Bragging rights upon completion
Cons
-Preachy
-Excruciatingly long periods of stagnation
-Unbearable French nuisances (such as a whole chapter dedicated to the use of French slang and another dedicated to a false romanticized description of the Battle of Waterloo)
-There are often clumsy, non-realistic, and forced passages
-Anti-rational
-Pro-instinct/emotions
-Obscenely suggestive scenes (Valjean watched Cosette dress and undress her dolls for hours) (lol pervy French)

Score: 8.2/10

does this get better further into the book? i don't give a shit about myriel and why they spend so much time telling me about his life is beyond me

Dear /lit/,
I have been thinking about reading this, but I don't know anything about it. Has anybody here read it and, if so, was it worth it?

If I want to read a really long book, I need to have a good translation. So, can anyone recommend the best translation for Les Miserables?

Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo

Choose next book for me to read. Picture totally related, because I said so.

OUT OF SHEER CURIOSITY /LIT/, THE LONGEST BOOKS YOU HAVE READ WERE?

MINE, IN THE ORDER I READ THEM:
THE WINDS OF WAR - 896 PAGES - HERMAN WOUK
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE - 1056 PAGES - HERMAN WOUK
IT - 1138 PAGES - STEPHEN KING
THE STAND - 1141 PAGES - STEPHEN KING
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - 1276 PAGES - ALEXANDRE DUMAS
LIFE AND FATE - 896 PAGES - VASILY GROSSMAN
WAR AND PEACE - 1392 PAGES - LEO TOLSTOY
DON QUIXOTE - 1072 PAGES - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
AND CURRENTLY READING LES MISERABLES - 1488 PAGES - VICTOR HUGO

That other thread is cool, so I guess we can try this for me? You choose two books, the ones with the most votes I buy. Pic is my favorite book.
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
A Cheap Lovecraft Anthology - Lovecraft
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
Complete Poetry - Whitman
On The Road - Kerouac

sure I'll play

Last Read: American Pyscho
Currently Reading/ Just starting: Les Miserables
Next to Read: not really sure just yet, whatever catches my attention next

hey /lit/, planning on reading Les Miserables soon, just wondering if you have any tips/ suggestions/ opinions about the book

pic related, it's the version of the book I ordered

~100 pages in.
So good.
The only problem is not knowing how to pronounce French...

Hey guys, I'm 3 pages into this and think it is awful. Does it continue to suck camel dick or does it get better?

I've been on this board nigh 3 months, and have never seen this question posed; What is the greatest book you have ever read?

>>1074991

An adaptation of the book/musical.

Jean Valjean - Colm Wilkinson, or, if he's too old... don't make the fucking movie.
Javert - Raul Esparza or Hugh Jackman
Eponine - Lea Salonga
Fantine - Amy Adams
Cosette - Anne Hathaway
Thenardier - Gene Hackman
Mme. Thenardier - Julie Andrews
Marius - Michael Ball or Jim Sturgess
Enjolras - Norbert Leo Butz

What does /lit/ think? I'm a few chapters into part three, I'm enjoying it. Jean Valjean is a badass.

Just finished this.
Did anyone else find themselves raging at Marius the whole time he was around? Everything that dude did enraged me. I was so upset when Gavroche and Confeyrac died but this punk lived. And then he was indirectly what caused Jean Valjean to die.....RAGE.

Also, how long did it take you guys to get through it? Took me two months and I was trying to get done relatively quickly