John Berner’s Reviews > Les Misérables > Status Update

coming at this as an American is fun. Okay, so Jean Valjean is an ex-convict. But he’s rich? So what’s the problem??

FINALLY, the sewers!!

they left the part where Enjolras summarily executes a guy out of the musical

Baller Move: stopping your narrative in its tracks to complain about how one of your novels was received thirty years ago.

I dunno how many of you read the article circulating today about ICE recruitment but I cannot stress enough how much book Thernardier is the aspiring ICE agent who resents his HS classmates' Insta vacations and so wants to use his ICE money to buy AirBnBs and get on the passive income train.

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Finished ‘Marius’. Man, when this thing decides to move it ~moves.

“modesty, that epidermis of the soul” …okay

love when Hugo introduces a new guy who is clearly Jean Valjean and Hugo pretends he isn’t for 60 pages

nuns

The Waterloo digression… all of my Napoleon podcasts have prepared me for this moment…