| Les Miserables, Anna Karenina Seeing as most of you are fourteen, fifteen years old and older (and therefore most of you have probably read the books mentioned in the title), I think it'd be interesting to see what you all think of Anna Karanina and Les Miserables.
Last year I read the latter, and fell in love with the story. It came as no surprise to me that it would take 1200 pages to tell such a tale, although one hundred pages describing the history of a convent and a bishop is a bit much when the bishop has about fifty pages of action following, and the whole history of Waterloo (stop it with the freakin' well!) and the history of the sewers of Paris which Jean Valjean roams around for about twenty-five pages (although Victor Hugo, much to my surprise, never went in depth on feces [although it would have been much to my shagrin to have encountered fifty pages on how French people take a dump]).
The length helped me get emotionally involved with the characters, and in turn, I felt emotionally evolved with everything that happened to them. I cried when someone died, I hurrahed when someone was triumphant, etc.
This year I decided to tackle Anna Karenina.
So far, so good.
So, discuss...
-Les Miserables
-Anna Karenina
-Other classics
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