Status Updates From The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Victor please… I could do without the rambling tangents. Otherwise, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying. But entire chapters dedicated to how printing is killing architecture and how architecture is “the great handwriting of the human race” is just a lot.

Libertaaaà abbiamo superato gli uccelli libertaaaà

Finito il Libro secondo, ora devo solo superare Notre-Dame e Parigi a volo d’uccello per arrivare al quarto 🤪

WHY wasn’t Jehan part of the Disney film????😭😂 I know he isn’t supposed to be funny, but the way he just doesn’t care at all. About anything. Except for money?? 😭😭

Hugo’s humor in this book is VASTLY underrated. Having the narrator repeatedly call Phœbus out for being an idiot will never not be funny, especially when he calls Esmeralda “my love”, “my beauty”, charming damsel” all right in front of his betrothed. Which, speaking of Fleur-de-Lys, even though she is a cruel, jealous woman, I can’t help but feel sorry for her. She’s stuck with Phœbus after all