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Post by nessundorma345 on Mar 6, 2012 15:31:02 GMT -6
Currently about halfway through the unabridged version of Les Misérables and totally pumped about it.
I-also-read-the-first-chapter-of-The-Fault-in-our-Stars-at target-today.
It was pretty cool, and it was a signed copy. But I didn't buy it for some reason. JOHN GREEN
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Post by nijil-xnv on Mar 7, 2012 11:53:17 GMT -6
Currently about halfway through the unabridged version of Les Misérables and totally pumped about it. I-also-read-the-first-chapter-of- The-Fault-in-our-Stars-at target-today. It was pretty cool, and it was a signed copy. But I didn't buy it for some reason. JOHN GREEN I got to the part were Hugo was talking about some man that fell off a ship and drowned. After reading that I was a little confused what that scene had to do with the rest of the book. I have a theory. Hugo was writing another book about a man being thrown from a boat in a storm but he lost those pages in his giant manuscript of Les Mis and since Les Mis is so long his editor didn't even notice the missed placed pages and they just got printed along with the story. The End. I will finish that book at some point.... |
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Post by nessundorma345 on Mar 7, 2012 13:35:16 GMT -6
Currently about halfway through the unabridged version of Les Misérables and totally pumped about it. I-also-read-the-first-chapter-of- The-Fault-in-our-Stars-at target-today. It was pretty cool, and it was a signed copy. But I didn't buy it for some reason. JOHN GREEN I got to the part were Hugo was talking about some man that fell off a ship and drowned. After reading that I was a little confused what that scene had to do with the rest of the book. I have a theory. Hugo was writing another book about a man being thrown from a boat in a storm but he lost those pages in his giant manuscript of Les Mis and since Les Mis is so long his editor didn't even notice the missed placed pages and they just got printed along with the story. The End. I will finish that book at some point.... yeah, that was actually important to the story. Jean Valjean fell off the ship and faked his own death so he would be free to go for Cosette. I can see why they left it out of the musical, though. ;D I just find it annoying when he takes a chapter or ten away from the plot and uses it to bemoan society's woes or rant about the decline of architecture over the past century.  I did not get this book to hear you talk about the layout of Paris, M. Hugo. Tell me more about this Javert guy.  |
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Post by salierisantfarm on Mar 8, 2012 20:02:00 GMT -6
I got to the part were Hugo was talking about some man that fell off a ship and drowned. After reading that I was a little confused what that scene had to do with the rest of the book. I have a theory. Hugo was writing another book about a man being thrown from a boat in a storm but he lost those pages in his giant manuscript of Les Mis and since Les Mis is so long his editor didn't even notice the missed placed pages and they just got printed along with the story. The End. I will finish that book at some point.... yeah, that was actually important to the story. Jean Valjean fell off the ship and faked his own death so he would be free to go for Cosette. I can see why they left it out of the musical, though. ;D I just find it annoying when he takes a chapter or ten away from the plot and uses it to bemoan society's woes or rant about the decline of architecture over the past century. I did not get this book to hear you talk about the layout of Paris, M. Hugo. Tell me more about this Javert guy. Hahaha! Oh, Victor Hugo. "Allow me to take a few pages to describe Esmerelda's feet."  |
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Post by nijil-xnv on Mar 8, 2012 21:46:57 GMT -6
I got to the part were Hugo was talking about some man that fell off a ship and drowned. After reading that I was a little confused what that scene had to do with the rest of the book. I have a theory. Hugo was writing another book about a man being thrown from a boat in a storm but he lost those pages in his giant manuscript of Les Mis and since Les Mis is so long his editor didn't even notice the missed placed pages and they just got printed along with the story. The End. I will finish that book at some point.... yeah, that was actually important to the story. Jean Valjean fell off the ship and faked his own death so he would be free to go for Cosette. I can see why they left it out of the musical, though. ;D I just find it annoying when he takes a chapter or ten away from the plot and uses it to bemoan society's woes or rant about the decline of architecture over the past century. I did not get this book to hear you talk about the layout of Paris, M. Hugo. Tell me more about this Javert guy. Really? Because Cossette isn't even around yet in the book when in that part. In fact, Valjean had just tried to be reformed I believe... Unless it references that part again... I'll have to see if it's the same part we're talking about... Gotta dig out my copy. |
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Post by salierisantfarm on Mar 20, 2012 16:56:23 GMT -6
But but but but WHAT IS THIS ABOUT PREGNANT NUNS???
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Post by nessundorma345 on Mar 22, 2012 15:09:13 GMT -6
yeah, that was actually important to the story. Jean Valjean fell off the ship and faked his own death so he would be free to go for Cosette. I can see why they left it out of the musical, though. ;D I just find it annoying when he takes a chapter or ten away from the plot and uses it to bemoan society's woes or rant about the decline of architecture over the past century. I did not get this book to hear you talk about the layout of Paris, M. Hugo. Tell me more about this Javert guy. Really? Because Cossette isn't even around yet in the book when in that part. In fact, Valjean had just tried to be reformed I believe... Unless it references that part again... I'll have to see if it's the same part we're talking about... Gotta dig out my copy. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH. I know what part you're talking about now. Yeah, I think that was like one extended metaphor or something that I completely ignored. Nevermind then, he uses boats in a storm more than once. |
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Post by nijil-xnv on Mar 22, 2012 15:46:33 GMT -6
Really? Because Cossette isn't even around yet in the book when in that part. In fact, Valjean had just tried to be reformed I believe... Unless it references that part again... I'll have to see if it's the same part we're talking about... Gotta dig out my copy. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH. I know what part you're talking about now. Yeah, I think that was like one extended metaphor or something that I completely ignored. Nevermind then, he uses boats in a storm more than once. Ah, okay. Yeah, I was totally lost. But I suppose that's why we love Hugo... |
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Post by salierisantfarm on Mar 22, 2012 19:29:05 GMT -6
I'm reading "The Phantom of Manhattan."
I'm not very far, but I think that everyone may be overreacting just a bit, and that it's so hated mainly because of the preface.
The preface is, shall we say, not very diplomatic.
I like what I've seen of Erik Mulheim so far. He's very cranky and bitter.
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Post by nijil-xnv on Mar 22, 2012 22:16:47 GMT -6
Well, I thought that when I started it too. But the further I got the more I hated it. Hope you can give us a new spin!
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Post by nessundorma345 on Mar 23, 2012 15:48:05 GMT -6
I'm reading "The Phantom of Manhattan." I'm not very far, but I think that everyone may be overreacting just a bit, and that it's so hated mainly because of the preface. The preface is, shall we say, not very diplomatic. I like what I've seen of Erik Mulheim so far. He's very cranky and bitter. Regardless of how good or bad the novel actually is, there's no arguing that the review PR did of the book is one of the best. He's so funny when he's flustered. |
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Post by salierisantfarm on Mar 23, 2012 17:37:26 GMT -6
I'm reading "The Phantom of Manhattan." I'm not very far, but I think that everyone may be overreacting just a bit, and that it's so hated mainly because of the preface. The preface is, shall we say, not very diplomatic. I like what I've seen of Erik Mulheim so far. He's very cranky and bitter. Regardless of how good or bad the novel actually is, there's no arguing that the review PR did of the book is one of the best. He's so funny when he's flustered. Yes, indeed! "It's a wheelbarrow of decomposed ASS!" XD |
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Post by nijil-xnv on May 9, 2012 20:07:17 GMT -6
Currently reading - Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis.
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Post by salierisantfarm on May 31, 2012 21:15:35 GMT -6
I had to return POM to the library. Currently spazzing out over "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." <3
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Post by nijil-xnv on Jun 4, 2012 10:40:01 GMT -6
I had to return POM to the library. Currently spazzing out over "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." <3 POM *snickers* I don't have any idea why that is so funny to me. Anyway, what did you think of it thus far? |
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