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Originally Posted by maianhvk
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...
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. |
Yes it's much better now,