LilaBeth ’s Reviews > Les Misérables > Status Update

I’m still not over the fact that Hugo spent so many chapters giving a detailed narrative of the Battle of Waterloo even after he said he would leave it to historians to tell it. All so he could just mention that Thenardier was there one night scavenging among the bodies. Like, couldn’t he have just said so? Nevertheless, it was very fascinating. I enjoyed it.

An army is a strange contrivance in which power is the sum of a vast total of impotence. That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

I love Bishop Bienvenu (Bishop Welcome). “He did not study plants, he merely loved flowers. He had great respect for men of learning but even more respect for the ignorant, and without forfeiting either loyalty he watered his beds every summer evening with a green watering-can.”