I am indeed BAAAACK! As is evidenced by my SUDDEN BOOK POSTS after having read nothing but Les Mis since the beginning of the year :P I read so many more books when I a)don't have much internet access and b) don't have work!
I think you should still read Maurice, yeah, because it is a worthwhile book! Most of my "meh" is around not liking any of the characters, which is something not everybody has trouble with when reading, so maybe you'll like it more than I did!
AUGH I AM MANY CHAPTERS BEHIND IN BRICK!CLUB TOOOOO, this is what happens when I go on vacation apparently AUGH. I need to catch up! I recommend you do too, because Les Mis is AWESOME and brick!club almost makes up for the lack of footnotes? (because OH MY GOD I HEAR YOU on the annotations, it wants SO MANY. Apparently a thoroughly-annotated edition exists IN FRENCH, so if you speak French and also have a lotttt of money kicking around you could go for that? ALAS. But I think the problem is that the brick is SO DENSE and SO LONG and contains SO MANY ALLUSIONS that the annotations would probably be just as long as the book itself, which would make it a HELLA LOT OF WORK to annotate and EXTREMELY INCONVENIENT to publish. Sighhhhhhhh)
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I think you should still read Maurice, yeah, because it is a worthwhile book! Most of my "meh" is around not liking any of the characters, which is something not everybody has trouble with when reading, so maybe you'll like it more than I did!
AUGH I AM MANY CHAPTERS BEHIND IN BRICK!CLUB TOOOOO, this is what happens when I go on vacation apparently AUGH. I need to catch up! I recommend you do too, because Les Mis is AWESOME and brick!club almost makes up for the lack of footnotes? (because OH MY GOD I HEAR YOU on the annotations, it wants SO MANY. Apparently a thoroughly-annotated edition exists IN FRENCH, so if you speak French and also have a lotttt of money kicking around you could go for that? ALAS. But I think the problem is that the brick is SO DENSE and SO LONG and contains SO MANY ALLUSIONS that the annotations would probably be just as long as the book itself, which would make it a HELLA LOT OF WORK to annotate and EXTREMELY INCONVENIENT to publish. Sighhhhhhhh)