I'm still reading A Tale of 2 Cities. No big deal, I've been reading it for only a month now... Only if I could keep my eyes open from the 5th minute on...
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Originally Posted by The Terminator
Yeah but he put it in the book so I thought what the heck I might as well read it, I'm about 400pg through it now. I didn't know you had read it, how did you like it?
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It was
so hard. It took me a very long boring while to plow through the miscellaneous details of Bishop Myriel's life, including his habits, sister, home decorations... even his meeting an outlaw, if I remember it right.
So you can see, after all the efforts, I was resentful to discover that Bishop Myriel plays no big role but merely a sleeping beauty to look at in less than a minute
I think you already made it to the later parts, but I put this in spoiler in case you didn't.
Spoiler:
Why Hugo couldn't just say,
"Valjean met this Bishop named Myriel. Valjean happened to have a sneak peek when the bishop was sleeping and his pure, kind face (under the
moonlight) changed the ex-prisoner's nature
completely: Valjean suddenly turned good, etc."
and save us some hundred pages, remains a mystery to me
Was he paid by word count?
But from that on, things went very smoothly and easily. The story became interesting, truly touching, and of course had less nonsense.