April-May Book: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

so, am finally(!) on book 4. book 3 ended on an exquisite, sublime note. wish it hadn't taken 'til nearly the end to appreciate...will have to reread at some point.

Am having to put it on hiatus while school kicks my ***. I've got all sorts of essays and finals and what not, plus the play I'm directing/producing is in its final hectic stages. Sorry guys, gotta prioritize. Still, I'll finish it before May.

This is a weird feeling -- having a deadline always makes me go slower. I keep having to remind myself I'm not reading this for school, it's not gonna jump up and bite me or anything. Poor book, not getting as much Em love as it should be :(

Yeah, this is really crunch time for school, and its not wise to spend alot of time on an extraciriclur book, but at the same time, everyone else is going to finish first!!! We can't have that happening.

Oh yeah, and shame on anyone who has already read it and ISN'T rereading it. I reread Frankenstien for this club. There's no reason you shouldn't reread Hunchback! :mad: *Shakes fist at Faye and anyone else who doesn't reread* :mad:

sorry guys I'm on a mad kick today :mad: :mad: :mad: :D

Rereading GOOD. Frankenstein BA-A-A-A-AD. (Shelley, sometimes you gotta turn off the tact and say, "Give it up and come to bed, dear. You aren't the writer in the family, just a Polidori to my Byron.")


I'm sorry, I just took us terribly off-topic. I can't figure out how to delete these, so if you want desperately to respond, why dontcha drop me a PM. ---Em

em, what we usually do is replace the post with an asterik - the delete mechanism is reserved for admin and logos.

ohhhhh. No wonder that darn thing doesn't work. :p Thanks.

sho'.
btw, where is everyone in this book? before i rhapsodize or complain more that'd be helpful.

Uhh... heh heh... yeah. I'm just at the end of Book II *winces* I believe I've reached the point I always seem to where I go, "Okay Em, computer off, we gotta read five chapters before dinner." And then after two or three days of that I get into it and finish normally. But, you can all go ahead discussing where you're at and I'll keep my nose outta here and in the book and I'll catch up with you later.

I can't seem to labor through this damn Bird's Eye View of Paris chapter. It actually only like 20 pages long, but damnit if it doesn't drag! But yeah, Amuse, shoot away. Maybe that'll be insentive for me to get my read on.

I can't get into this book at all, though I don't doubt it's a good story - if only it wern't so cluttered with other stuff. Perhaps it's all relevant to the story, but this is the crux of it: not knowing the story means that I dont know which details are important and which can be skimmed. I have no idea which characters are important and who can be ignored. It's all too complex and I suddenly thought 'why am I struggling with this when I don't need to?' So...I have abandoned the effort in favour of 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales' which I am really enjoying.

:) i've read The Sketch Book and love every single tale in it...enjoy!
yeah, kik the bird's eye view is a monster. i wish i'd read the last page of it first, lol. but there's a really cool bell-ringing scene that follows. and at the very end of "Bird's Eye View" all of a sudden i realized why hugo bored us to tears writing about it, and it made sense, and i saw paris as it was when fresh and dirty and uncluttered (i mean that in the modern sense), and also his point about architecture as books. and i realized he'd given a very great gift wrapped in the most awful paper.
what to do, hunh.

Well, this week I can't possibly give it any more attention. I am procrastinating writing a paper even as we speak, plus I'm putting on my play this weekend, so I'm going crazy with last minute preperations. There are sooooo many :(. Then I have, count em, three essays due next week. :eek: :(. After all that crap, I'm going to read the freaking HB of ND like there's no bloody tomarow. But just so I don't feel so alone, now that Miranda is out, is it just you and me actually reading it, Amuse?

Please, someone else tell me your working on it too!

i guess so! it's like doing chin-ups sometimes but yes. i know, i hope there's someone else. hello? anyone else in paris with us?
and i'm back from break so will have to decide which way i want most to spend my little free time - typing out my spanish book, cleaning on my hands and knees, or reading hugo...hmm. :D
good luck with your play!!! :) can we say break a leg to the director?

Amuse, I'm not going to let you be the only one reading it, so its 4:40 AM right now. Time for a break from the essay. I'm going to finish Bird's eye view RIGHT NOW. And you can say what ever you want to the director, just don't physically come and break his leg and we'll be fine ;) :D.