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Call me delusional, but to me the beginning of this book feels like the beginning of "The Fellowship of The Ring". The way Hugo tells us about the common population of Paris and proceeds to explain the upper classes, their titles and their standing in the society as well as their personalities reminds me of Tolkien introducing us to Hobbits and the Shire. They also have a similar humorous undertones :)

Beautiful book. Hugo's prose is a tad more journalistic than Dostoyevsky or Dickens, but it still reads as a riproaring adventure more than anything else. Amidst longwinded descriptions of Paris and architecture, of course.