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sophia_sol) wrote2013-02-06 08:32 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2013-02-06 08:32 pm
DONE READING LES MISERABLES
RIGHT MY THOUGHTS ON VOLUME FOUR, I WAS GOING TO DO THOSE.
HAHAHAH like I remember any of my thoughts, it took me WAY TOO LONG to read this volume. I mean, I had thoughts! Lots of thoughts! And I kept on having them all the way through the volume! But now I am CAUGHT UP IN MY EMOTIONS FOR VOLUME FIVE and like CAN WE TALK ABOUT RELIGION AND JAVERT'S DEATH?
OKAY. SO. in the musical Javert is overtly religious, the most religious of all the characters, and then at his suicide he's all "and must I now begin to doubt". And in the BOOK, Javert's into THE LAW and nothing else, certainly not religion, and at his suicide he's all "CRAP THERE'S A HIGHER POWER THAN THE LAW?????" and begins to BELIEVE. And of course he can't handle it and stuff and okay I'm actually currently RATHER FURTHER than this in Volume V so I no longer remember all the details of Javert's suicide but that COMPLETE AND UTTER REVERSAL of Javert's opinion on religion between the book and the musical is just like WHAT WERE THE MUSICAL WRITERS ON. I already knew that it was ridiculous that the musical writers had chosen JAVERT as their venue for inserting religion back into the story, but now that I've read Javert's book-suicide IT IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS. WHAT.
Also can we talk about how the entire thing about the sewers, and also the book version of the Thenardier-Valjean interaction in the sewers, is PERFECT AND AMAZING IN EVERY WAY OH MY GOD.
Also I want to talk about DIFFERENT EMOTIONS THAT CHARACTER DEATHS CAN INSPIRE. Because dude I am kind of fascinated by looking at my own reactions! I reacted with very strong emotions both to the various barricade deaths and to Valjean's death, but the specifics of the emotion were actually very different? When Valjean died I CRIED. When the Amis died I didn't even feel close to crying, but instead was all...ugh, idek how to describe it. GAH WHY AM I SO BAD AT TALKING ABOUT EMOTIONS. (oh right because my entire family is bad at talking about emotions :P) It was a more violent emotion, like being PUNCHED in the feels. Or something. IDEKKKK. But it was interesting anyways!
ANYWAYS THIS HAS NOT BEEN MY PROPER POST OF THOUGHTS AND REACTIONS TO EITHER VOLUME IV OR V BUT I HAD THINGS I WANTED TO SAY. SO. HERE YOU GO. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL GET MORE AND BETTER THOUGHTS LATER.
HAHAHAH like I remember any of my thoughts, it took me WAY TOO LONG to read this volume. I mean, I had thoughts! Lots of thoughts! And I kept on having them all the way through the volume! But now I am CAUGHT UP IN MY EMOTIONS FOR VOLUME FIVE and like CAN WE TALK ABOUT RELIGION AND JAVERT'S DEATH?
OKAY. SO. in the musical Javert is overtly religious, the most religious of all the characters, and then at his suicide he's all "and must I now begin to doubt". And in the BOOK, Javert's into THE LAW and nothing else, certainly not religion, and at his suicide he's all "CRAP THERE'S A HIGHER POWER THAN THE LAW?????" and begins to BELIEVE. And of course he can't handle it and stuff and okay I'm actually currently RATHER FURTHER than this in Volume V so I no longer remember all the details of Javert's suicide but that COMPLETE AND UTTER REVERSAL of Javert's opinion on religion between the book and the musical is just like WHAT WERE THE MUSICAL WRITERS ON. I already knew that it was ridiculous that the musical writers had chosen JAVERT as their venue for inserting religion back into the story, but now that I've read Javert's book-suicide IT IS EVEN MORE RIDICULOUS. WHAT.
Also can we talk about how the entire thing about the sewers, and also the book version of the Thenardier-Valjean interaction in the sewers, is PERFECT AND AMAZING IN EVERY WAY OH MY GOD.
Also I want to talk about DIFFERENT EMOTIONS THAT CHARACTER DEATHS CAN INSPIRE. Because dude I am kind of fascinated by looking at my own reactions! I reacted with very strong emotions both to the various barricade deaths and to Valjean's death, but the specifics of the emotion were actually very different? When Valjean died I CRIED. When the Amis died I didn't even feel close to crying, but instead was all...ugh, idek how to describe it. GAH WHY AM I SO BAD AT TALKING ABOUT EMOTIONS. (oh right because my entire family is bad at talking about emotions :P) It was a more violent emotion, like being PUNCHED in the feels. Or something. IDEKKKK. But it was interesting anyways!
ANYWAYS THIS HAS NOT BEEN MY PROPER POST OF THOUGHTS AND REACTIONS TO EITHER VOLUME IV OR V BUT I HAD THINGS I WANTED TO SAY. SO. HERE YOU GO. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL GET MORE AND BETTER THOUGHTS LATER.
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