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Originally Posted by missimpossible
Finished Notre-Dame de Paris on Wednesday. It was really could, but compared to the other contemporaneous French literature that I've read it was a little long-winded and I never really bought the melodrama the same way I did with, for instance, Count of Monte Cristo. To much of what people did seemed completely irrational for me to totally lose myself in it.
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The Count is about revenge, while Notre Dame is about hopeless love. They have the same melodrama fator, I think, so you just don't like emotional reading, do you?
