Did anybody read?
Did I need to? I got it from birth.
I didn't like it. I thought the whole thing was too naive and the characters one-dimensional.
On the other hand, that was 20 years ago.
I hate that book. We studied that in CM2 (5th grade in France). Sooooo boring and unrealistic.
@WillyGudelian said in #2:
> Did I need to? I got it from birth.
here the first question is about your sorrow and only the second one is about your name. you're welcome!
@CCAK0123456789 said in #4:
> I hate that book. We studied that in CM2 (5th grade in France). Sooooo boring and unrealistic.
Deep Seek says it is the most popular in France
I watched the movie
I love les Miserables!
I'm jealous of you french people learning it in grade school. But I guess all cultures have their strengths and weaknesses.
@CCAK0123456789 said in #4:
> I hate that book. We studied that in CM2 (5th grade in France). Sooooo boring and unrealistic.
@MusicGarlic said in #3:
> I didn't like it. I thought the whole thing was too naive and the characters one-dimensional.
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> On the other hand, that was 20 years ago.
The characters are archetypes, meaning they represent a virtue or a certain aspect of life, e.g. Javert = earthly justice, Jean Valjean = mercy, Thénardier = greed, etc. They won't be the most well-developed characters, but they will act out the conflicts between the things they represent. As for the un-realism, any time in a story when a human is representing Christ, like Jean Valjean does throughout the book, there are bound to be many unbelievable parts to the story. Can a human carry a body for miles navigating through twists, turns, and sewage? No, but Hugo is trying to use the story of Jean Valjean to recount what Christ did for us.
I enjoyed the book, and I much prefer it to the comparably-sized War and Peace.