[KarlInOhio]

Try Victor Hugo...I couldn’t even put Hunchback of Notre Dame down...

I couldn't put down Les Miserables because I rested it on my lap and was pinned there until I got some help. :-)

Seriously, it was on of the best books I've read. It even made me wish I understood French so I could read an untranslated version.

[Borges]

Do you like the musical? On stage I mean. That recent film was terrible.

[latina4dubya]

I couldn't put down Les Miserables because I rested it on my lap and was pinned there until I got some help. :-) Seriously, it was on of the best books I've read. It even made me wish I understood French so I could read an untranslated version.

when reading Fahrenheit 451 i asked my students and their parents: "if books were outlawed (as in Fahrenheit 451) which book would you want to commit to memory? for me it would be either Les Miserables, or the Book of Romans... i might forgo Les Miserables only because i believe my two sons know it by heart... but i think my husband knows much of Romans, so i might consider something else altogether :)

as is said in a previous comment, i think Les Miserables is the best story ever written... (not counting the entirety of the Bible)...

[Vision Thing]

I’m struggling through Les Mis right now. The disjointed style in the different parts of the book are a bit of a turnoff, but the parts that I’ve liked so far are just hints of how great a book it is.