Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Excellent translation of Hugo's book by Julie Rose. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The book was much different than I had first imagined from reading the first several chapters. A good book will cause you to think and to contemplate your beliefs--this book has done that for me. I'm re-examining my thoughts on mercy and justice.
There were some great passages in here written with intense skill with words and images. Like drinking a fine wine, reading the words crafted together so elegantly so as to make you stop and ponder them, caused me to linger more over some sections than others.
The story itself is both strange and beautifully simple in it's complication. This book takes work to read, and that work is well-worth the effort.
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