David Stanley’s Reviews > Les Misérables > Status Update

A bit more than half way into this book, and what a quest it has been. After the great experience I had with Tale of Two Cities, it seemed the natural choice. At times the book is frightful piece of suspense, at others a sublime panoramic of the human condition, at long spells it is a mire of minutia. 1500 pages when will I get my life back? But wait, why am I writing this? I am dying to get back to the story.