reading meme!

[silverflight8]

I stole this from cloudsinvenice without asking so you should go read her entry first --> http://cloudsinvenice.livejournal.com/43998.html.

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1. How many books did you read this year?
I finished 38 books :(

a) fic
b) time

I should run a regression on how many books I read:

Comments

[sherrilina]

Ooh I might snag this meme...if I ever get around to finishing the OTHER Year in Review memes!

I don't know what's funnier, your regression equation or the fact that even when you are sitting there claiming that you have read so few books at 38, that is still like 20 more books than I have read this year, in a year I pushed myself to read more than I had been lately....:/ (And I don't read ANY fic). Whatever, I'm a slow reader and three of the books I read were 800-1000 pages long!

And ooh are you reading the unabridged version of Les Mis? I read the abridged version like 10 years ago (god how time passes!), because since it was the same length as "Hunchback" unabridged I assumed it had to be the full thing too (lol). Someday I hope to read the full version, although idk how necessary 40 pages on Waterloo are, etc. :p

[silverflight8]

I HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME ANALYZING REGRESSIONS I don't know if you can tell *cough*

Aww, well, I keep a record and I used to read ~100 or more a year (though admittedly there were a lot of shorter novels and romance novels too). So it's a bit...small this year.

Yeah, exactly! Long books take...a long time.

I am! That's probably what's taking me so long, I keep winding up in sections where Hugo stops talking about any characters and starts talking about Waterloo while in the back of my mind I go "..." because omg Hugo, get back to Javert and Cosette already! (He did this on a cliffhanger once too.)

Hee, fair assumption. Though I'm heartened that the Hunchback of Notre Dame is thinner; I don't understand how he managed to write so many in the first place if they're all as enormous as Les Mis.

Do snag the meme and tell me what you read :)

[sherrilina]

Lol, even though Hunchback is only 520 pages or so, he still managed to put in a bunch of long tangents about the city of Paris and the cathedral1 ;) Luckily though when we read that work in English class in 7th grade they had us skip the worst of those passages in the reading assignments. I was not a big fan of the book, although there were some aspects I liked: Frollo is more complex and interesting--he adopts Quasimodo not because he murdered his mom and got guilt-tripped by a priest, but because the baby made him think of his own baby brother he was raising, and he thought if he didn't help this boy something could happen to his own brother. Also a character chooses to save the goat Djali over Esmeralda, lol forever. But generally I felt like Les Mis was Hugo's redemption for writing the awful Hunchback...:p

[silverflight8]

Huh, interesting, I've never read the Hunchback before! It makes sense that the characterization would be more complex though--520 pages is more space than a movie. And I think the "reminded of family" sounds much more plausible. A way to make him villainous but human--that's really what I've noticed, there's always a reason behind terrible people. There are horrible institutions twisted by men, but not people you can only understand as evil (eg even though I badly want to punch Thénardier in the FACE he is undeniably plausible, more's the pity).