for my history class i have to research something which influenced art forms. I chose to investigate Victor Hugo, author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables.
i have the musical versions to both stories, and two of my favorite quotes are:
"who is the monster and who is the man?" -- hunchback
"i ask for nothing, i can get by
but i know so many less lucky than i
God help my people, the poor and down trod
i thought we are were the children of God." -- hunchback
"I had a dream in days gone by
when love was high and life worth living
i dreamed that love would never die
i dreamed that God would be forgiving...
but there are dreams that cannot be
and there are storms we cannot weather..." -- les mis
how the world may be changed in just one burst of light
and what was right seems wrong
and what was wrong seems right..." -- les mis
note to self/everyone else in the universe:
REALLY NEED TO READ THESE BOOKS
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Just to warn you...Les Mis is sooo boring and dry. Simply because that's how a lot of book were written back in old Hugo's day. I still say it should be read, because it is good. I enjoyed it. But there were points where I just wanted to throw it...in...um..a toilet. Or a pool. Yanno, water.
hm.
Les Mis had boring parts.
Read an abridged version, cause then you don't have to suffer through the history of the French Revolution in great detail.
The story of Javert and Jean and all those people is FASCINATING
Don't read an abridged version.
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