Thenardier screwed up a blackmail attempt, which was satisfying ( Read more... )

I am 95% done with Les Miserables. Marius is proving to be every ounce the dick I thought he would be if he found out that Jean Valjean was an ex-con. He's refraining from asking pertinent questions (because oh noes, he might not like the answers!) and suddenly perceiving a man who'd been very kind and generous to him and to Cosette as a monster ( Read more... )

I need some help. I have just run into a portion of Les Miserables where I don't trust the translation. For context, Gavroche is supposed to be singing incendiary songs ( Read more... )

So I'm reading the Brick.

If you don't know what the Brick is, it's what's Les Miz fandom calls the novel Les Miserables. It's 959 pages long. And it doesn't have to be. The problem is that Hugo a) loves going off on tangents and b) never shuts up.

Let me give you an example. Yesterday I got to the point where Valjean and Cosette moved away and ( Read more... )