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Originally Posted by GeneS
Hmmm. Read Moby Dick and loved it. I'm sure there are others, such as "Remembrance of Things Past" or "Ulysses" that should be on my list but my all-time trudge through the entirety of Les Miserables (took me almost 20 years) takes the prize for me. 1200 pages of political/social commentary and 5 pages of story.
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Uh-huh. Well, I did like the story, but I found the commentary a bit... ermm... sleep-inducing. Did your edition have the classic chapter-without-a-single-plot-reference? The one that rabbits on about a particular aspect of a particular battle that was completely irrelevant to the story, except that it happened in the same war in which the story was based? GAH!