I don't know the story of Les Misérables. I've never watched any interpretation of it, and I am determined not to until I finish reading this first.
The problem with this is that, well, I don't know the story. And at 48% of the way through, so far, there doesn't seem to be much of one. At least, for the number of pages I've read, it feels as though around only 5% of those has contained any actual story.
I'm disappointed, to say the least. I usually love classics, and this one is just leaving me cold. I've been having to read other books between volumes just so that I don't kill my enthusiasm for reading forever, and I'm usually monogamous in my reading. More than once I've been tempted to just give up on it.
Yet as soon as I reach that point, suddenly I'll be captured by a beautiful turn of phrase, or hooked into a bit of something actually happening. What are you, Les Mis?
I'll just have to keep reading...
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