Bounced off Norstrilia and some of the short stories pretty hard in college. Probably still have the old paperback short story collection in a box, may have to give it another shot.
On book four... the line between revolutionaries and hipsters is thin! Les Amis could drop into SF's Mission district and no one would blink. Marius is an arrogant stiff-necked creeper trapped in his unacknowledged biases, with a side helping of Hugo's cement-truck approach to angst. I skipped right past annoyance into, "no one can be this outrageous. Can they? I must take notes. Oh Valjean, you might get the son-in-law you deserve, except no one deserves this." I was sort of warned by your previous comments, which helped me slog on (at an admittedly glacial pace).
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Date: 2013-06-03 03:42 pm (UTC)On book four... the line between revolutionaries and hipsters is thin! Les Amis could drop into SF's Mission district and no one would blink. Marius is an arrogant stiff-necked creeper trapped in his unacknowledged biases, with a side helping of Hugo's cement-truck approach to angst. I skipped right past annoyance into, "no one can be this outrageous. Can they? I must take notes. Oh Valjean, you might get the son-in-law you deserve, except no one deserves this." I was sort of warned by your previous comments, which helped me slog on (at an admittedly glacial pace).