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Well, first and foremost, this is not a Disney movie!
The title is a misnomer. The original French title is Notre Dame de Paris and the cathedral itself is the star of this show. The unfortunate hunchback is only in maybe a third of the scenes.
I actually wept at the end of Hugo's Les Misérables ...the book not the musical...so I was expecting the same level of brilliance and connection. It didn't happen. This story was sad and violent and just so terribly unfair, but the characters did not touch ...more
The title is a misnomer. The original French title is Notre Dame de Paris and the cathedral itself is the star of this show. The unfortunate hunchback is only in maybe a third of the scenes.
I actually wept at the end of Hugo's Les Misérables ...the book not the musical...so I was expecting the same level of brilliance and connection. It didn't happen. This story was sad and violent and just so terribly unfair, but the characters did not touch ...more
This is officially the hardest book I have ever read and I'll probably have to read it again later on in life, just to understand it more.
Like most classics, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a very detailed book to read, with old beautiful language that no one understands or says in current times (get one brownie point for telling me what 'you get gone!' means)
I enjoyed the story it self very much, but I got confused about how Victor Hugo seemed to tell the story and then all of sudden seemed to ...more
Like most classics, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a very detailed book to read, with old beautiful language that no one understands or says in current times (get one brownie point for telling me what 'you get gone!' means)
I enjoyed the story it self very much, but I got confused about how Victor Hugo seemed to tell the story and then all of sudden seemed to ...more
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