Les Mis

I am currently working my way through the unabridged version of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. I'm not even halfway through it on page 513, but it has been an enjoyable read so far. It has taken me about a month and a half to get this far and I think part of that has to do with how daunting it can be to hold a book that is over a thousand pages long. A few days ago at work a kid asked me what the book was like. I explained to him what a geometric tangent was (a line that is connected to another line but shoots off in it's own direction) and then said this book was full of tangents. He laughed. It was particularly hard getting through a 45 page section on the battle of Waterloo where the only relevant part was a short interaction between characters on the last page. Still, I am enjoying getting to know the characters and the themes of redemption and the struggle to figure out what is right have been very interesting.

To help me get into the spirit a little more I took a couple quizzes. If you are familiar with the story from the book or the musical you might enjoy finding out which major and minor characters you resemble. I am like Jean Valjean and Sister Simplice. I wasn't even going for all the religious answers.