Marius has turned his back on a privileged lifestyle and Cosette has no real idea of the sort of life she can/will have. Both him and Cosette are similar in some ways. Actually, I spent a great deal of this part of the novel fearful for his life, because everyone always says that they cry in the end of Les Mis – I was turning each page and wondering if some hideous fate was going to befall him. I felt sorry for him in a few ways and because I knew nothing about the plot and so far there was a lot of people not being very happy in this novel, I desperately wanted him to find some happiness. Marg and I have done several joint reviews before – this time Marg has the first part of the discussion, which you can find over here at her blog and I have the second part.īree: I quite liked Marius. I bought it and then thought well, it’s here now. I pondered the idea of joining the read-a-long for a while and then I had my decision made for me when Marg showed me the Penguin Clothbound version with this cover. But there are some books that you just want to tackle in your lifetime and this was one of them. I knew it was the size of a large brick and probably relatively heavy going. So when Marg first mentioned that she was reading Les Misérables for a read-a-long, I thought she was nuts.
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