Victor Hugo

[Celeste]

I've just finished reading "Les Miserables" and it was a marvellous surprise

it's one of the most complete and beautiful books I've ever read, i'm completely in love with Hugo.
And I have to admit that before starting it I was afraid it might be tiring and difficult to understand. Instead you find yourself in a wonderful world and you never want to get out of it. Fantastic!
It's very well written, full of points of reflexions and it is a very fascinating story. In spite of its 1000 pages you can't stop reading it really really nice!!

Have you ever read it or the other stories he wrote?

In my neverending "to read list" I've just added: "The hunchback of Notre Dame", "the man who laughs" and "Ninety-three"

 

[Wabbit]

Sounds great, I'll have to add it to my own never ending list

 

[Rigana]

Was your edition abridged or not? I'm just wondering because the German version is 1600 pages long..

I loved "The hunchback of Notre-Dame", although it could be a bit difficult at times, but that might just be me. At that time I was just starting reading "difficult" books..

 

[Celeste]

i don't know what abridged means (i guess a shorter or simplified one?) but the edition i read (in italian of course!) was the complete one (thousand and more pages) but I assure you, thousand marvellous pages. And it's fascinating and there's no page i would eliminate.

 

[Rigana]

i don't know what abridged means (i guess a shorter or simplified one?)

Exactly. I wanted to order an edition at amazon.de and had troubles to find a complete version, because most are heavily abridged.
Actually, I listened to the audio book of "Les Misérables" some months ago and it just wasn't the same as "The hunchback of Notre-Dame" to me, because it was shortened to fit on 10 CDs.