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idk why im reading two books about french poverty at once i swear i didnt intend to

wooo the pace is finally starting to pick up a little

"a garden to walk in and immensity to dream in — what more could he ask? a few flowers at his feet and above him the stars"

i always wait until im about to go to sleep to start reading and i can only make it a chapter before i get too sleepy 😭 im gonna be stuck on this book forever

coming to really enjoy hugo's writing style, its very poetic and quoteable. now i wish i could read it in french.

chapter 2 came out of left field, um im putting this down and working on les mis for a while

something about the writing reminds me of mark twain although i havent read him in like 10 years so idk if thats a relevant comparison

"her being seemed composed of shadow, with too little substance for it to possess sex" ok so we are certainly off to a start

made it out of the introduction 🎉 the translator is funny, the intro was basically just "victor hugo is an elegantly poetic writer, except when he goes on 50 chapter rants about something completely irrelevant to the plot, which i regrettably do have to abridge otherwise people would burn their copies of the book out of frustration halfway through"

only took 48 pages to return to capitalism lmao
also i unironically had the thought "wow there are so many parallels to 1984, both the authors mustve been similarly inspired" buddy its the same author 🥀

"several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments"

almost done

really liked "last night on earth", maybe going in third place behind kaleidescope and rocket man

just finished "the rocket man", its definitely my second or third favourite so far, i cant decide