April-May Book: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Well I finished "Birds Eye View" and I'm not sure why you think Hugo was justified in making me want to dig my eyes out of my skull. To his credit, the entire book III was really well-written. The languege was beautiful, he did a great job of describing the local colour, I saw Paris. But it had no relevence. Going on and on about how this street used to have a spire and how this one didn't ect.. ect.. ect.. ect.. ect.. ect.. ECT...... was really irritating. He dropped us off at the end of book II, just getting into a significant storyline, and than all that boring ****. Grrrrr! It took me about 3 days to get up to book III, and about 7 to get through those 30 odd pages. Now I've completely lost any appreciation of the good stuff I was just getting into. Alot of it is just because I have NO time to give the book the concentration it deserves, but come on! Hugo should have seen that coming. He writes an awful lot about the architecture of the University, he must have known something about the people in it. ;)

thank you kik, but i think we're procrastinating. ;) at least i am (studied instead). hey, did? you just finish the chapter (the brain's temporarily running again).

Sure did (see first sentence of last post ;) ). I'm trapped in a vicious cycle between procrastinating school work by reading Hunchback, and procrastinating Hunchback by working on school work :(. And procrastinating both by spending the whole damn night on this forum :mad:.

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Originally posted by IWilKikU
Please, someone else tell me your working on it too!

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Okay, I'm wayy too curious to keep my nose out of here, so... that's why I saw that. :D Anyway... I'm working! Slowly but steadily. Okay, actually that's completely wrong -- more like in rapid spurts when no one else is in the living room. I CANNOT read in a room with other people -- drives me nuts. Again, anyway: I'm not to Bird's Eye yet, but I'm glad to have been warned. Plucking up my courage as I go. :p

I'm reading it too - just not very far yet. Had seven Shakespeare plays to master for my last exam but **fanfare please** am now all finished exams! SO, will dive into Hunchback with determination and play catch-up... :)

hunh? do you mean the whole thing - i find his "vision" ponderous - and how have you managed to enjoy his millstone-around-your neck ;) style?

do any of you have lines that you really like? i didn't use a highlighter until "bird's eye..." but 'specially enjoy "like an elephant carrying a castle on its hindquarters" and in the "this will kill that" chapter: "every civilization begins in theocracy and ends in democracy."
also, just before that line, "finally they wrote books."
AND like yes, and true and so apt, but here??? why couldn't he have written it into the story line (i agree) and shown, not! told? why, vic, why???

I came across alot of phrases that I liked, but Hunchback is my one book that looks smart, so I don't mark in it. Its a bright red, leather bound, paperback sized hardcover with lots of gold patterns enlaid in the cover and spine. It would look beautiful on a shelf covered in dust. I marked a bit in Dorian Gray until I got an overload of witty lines and couldn't take anymore. I think that was around page 10. :D

Ouch, I hate it when I get a book someone's marked in. It's distracting to read. I usually switch the bookmark to a piece of paper and cite the lines on that. Moby Dick had a lot of unintentionally funny ones.

this is interesting - i just looked at the book online - i'd no idea this was based on a true story, or that quasimodo was in love with esmeralda, and all of a sudden there's pathos and next time i'm going to read the comments here (though honestly a few irked me) before beginning.

hmm.. I didn't know it was based on a true story. :( poor modo. I didn't like esmerda at all... skank. And I wanted Phoebos to die. ps, kik, you're just jealous that I am oh-so-far ahead. :p

*Shakes fist at Fayefaye* :mad::mad::mad:

I guess I must be quite sad really, it's been a while since I've sat down and read a novel. With two teenage daughters, a daughter aged 2 3/4 and several other projects on the go, there just doesn't seem to be any time left for reading right now. I used to read a lot of Sci-fi/fantasy when I did have time. Mind you it was so long ago now that I can't even remember the authors!:( :confused:

Okay, I haven't read most of this topic, because I haven't started reading the book yet and I don't want to "spoil" anything. But I want to know what chapter is everyone on so that I can catch up with everyone else.
I finished my other book last night and I am hoping to start reading Hunchback in the next few minutes. The weather is really bad, so it's perfect weather for reading.

I'm on book IV, chapt. 3, but if I can come back down from these 3 or 4 pints I had I'll probably read some more tonight instead of working on my 3 essays that are do next week.