[ SECRET POST #2189 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2189 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[thene]

It's been my favourite book for about the last 15 years, and it was several readthroughs before I ever read all of the text.

If I'm foisting it on someone new, then a) I find them a translation that is lyrically beautiful and preserves all the batshit overloaded thirteen-adjective sentences, and b) I tell them to skip the Bishop, start at The Night Of A Day's Tramp, skip all but the last two pages of Waterloo, skip anything else that doesn't grab you, just read wherever the words grab your brain. The first time I read it, I think I started on about page 200 (someone had told me to read the scene with Eponine and Azelma playing with the cat and I didn't put it down). That book does not lend itself to linear.

[lunabee34]

Thanks for the heads-up. It helps to know that skimming certain parts is a recommended strategy from a Les Mis lover. :)

[(Anonymous)]

NA - thanks for this! I've tried to read the book several times in the last 20 years and could just never get into it. I'm a very literal person who has to be told things like "Don't read every single word starting on page 1 all the way through to the end". I'm also incapable of distinguishing the important things from the unimportant until I've finished reading something, so skimming doesn't work for me unless someone tells me what to skim over.