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Book Four was my favorite so far. In it we discover Quasimodo's background, Jehan Frollo's (that annoying brat from the beginning), and Claude Frollo's. I felt the Gothic vibe more intensely in these 6 chapters; and C.F.'s austerity and rigor was fascinating. It's so bittersweet to read about Q's relationship with the bells; how he loves them and feels they're all he has, except for C.
He's portrayed as animal like>

I'm dizzy from the turbulence this book puts me through. Book Three was a thorough disconnection and I, as a reader, depersonalized from my investment in it. But it so had me back at the start of the chapter 'Kind Souls'. I'm amazed at how V.H. is able to do that. He is a master. I assume these seemingly alien chapters are odd to everybody else. There's no way you can keep track of all the names, it spins your head a

'They would look into your palm and read marvelous things. They would have been bold enough to have predicted to Judas that he would be pope.'

I learned my lesson from Waterloo and skipped the chapter explaining the streets of Paris