Event - The Coal Miners Strike Back
All through the book, I waited for the word germinal to crop up. But it doesn't make its appearance until the last sentence, and even then, it's germination that Zola's talking about. Surely this isn't why I read the story. I actually believed that there was going to be a character with that name, but that didn't work out.
My suspicions about the mine were well founded. I knew it was no good. Zola called it Voreux, and described it as an open mouth that swallowed miners, so everybody knows that there's going to be trouble. Personally, I was hoping that there would be some erratic twist, revealed by a grizzled old miner who might say "That mine is bigger on the inside than on the outside," but the place does start to consume itself like a certain house.
Also, I realized several hundred pages in that the novel's part thirteen of a series.
My suspicions about the mine were well founded. I knew it was no good. Zola called it Voreux, and described it as an open mouth that swallowed miners, so everybody knows that there's going to be trouble. Personally, I was hoping that there would be some erratic twist, revealed by a grizzled old miner who might say "That mine is bigger on the inside than on the outside," but the place does start to consume itself like a certain house.
Also, I realized several hundred pages in that the novel's part thirteen of a series.