[ 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

[(Anonymous)]

I love the book, but I also make a habit of recommending to people that they read the abridged version. I was lucky when I read it because my mom warned me that the beginning was going to be slow, but that it got really, really good once you got into it, so I stuck with it.

[lunabee34]

*nods nods*

That makes a lot of sense.

The copy I have is not abridged, so I'll start with it but not feel guilt if want to switch to an abridged version. :)

Never has this icon been more appropriate

[tenlittlebullets]

Abridged versions kind of suck though, because they don't just cut out the giant digressions that have nothing to do with the plot, they also trim interesting (and sometimes essential) development of secondary characters, bizarre and entertaining detours, Hugo's batshit verbose walls of text that have nothing to do with the action until suddenly they do, and basically all the fun stuff. Stripping that book down to the plot is almost dishonest, because it's one of those books where the destination--the plot--is mostly a pretext for the journey.

So I tend to tell people "DON'T GET AN ABRIDGED VERSION but feel free to skim, and also here are the chapter titles for the digressions you can skip." (Basically, the first fifty pages on the bishop, all but the very end of Waterloo, the @#$%&! convent digression, the bit on slang that's super awkward in translation, most of the stuff on the barricades of 1848, and the guided tour of the Paris sewer system. Even though I'm perversely fond of the guided tour of the Paris sewer system.)

Re: Never has this icon been more appropriate

[thene]

I totally love the sewer guide and the barricades of 1848, and on the second or third time through I eventually got some enjoyment out of both the convent and the Bishop (the latter, partly because I've visited the area where it's set a few times andd the placenames are pure poetry to me). Conversely, I hate Patron-Minette and never reread it.