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Title: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo ISBN: 0-8125-6312-3 Publisher: Tor Classics Pub. Date: 15 June, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (68 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A rather grusome story that shows the reader medieval life.
Comment: This book, I must say, is nothing like I expected it to be. I thought it would focus on the life of the Hunchback, Quasimodo, but instead it looked at the lives of many unfortunate people along the way. Most of the characters are rather sad people; A gypsy girl taken advantage of by a crude soldier; a lustful deacon gone mad; a lonely bell ringer persecuted by the mobs of Paris; a poet/philosopher broke and homeless. I had expected, well, brighter, different characters and storylines. One this I found amazing about this story, however, was the shading of the characters. I expected the villain, Claude Frollo, to be black-hearted. Instead, at parts he was almost a shade of gray. Note of caution: I would not recommend this book to children. Yes, Disney made a movie out of it, but the true tale is not one for youngsters. The entire story, especially the end, is too sand and dark for young readers to enjoy
Rating: 5
Summary: Much better than I thought it would be
Comment: The Hunchback of Notre Dame was a story that I thought would be a little bit adolescent and childish because they made a Disney movie out of it. But it wasn't. If your read the story, you realize that Disney obviously made the movie have more of a happy ending, because a sad ending is not characteristic of a child's film. Also, the Disney movie focused more on the moral of "Don't judge a person by the way they look", where the book obviously did not. The book just doesn't transfer well to screen.
As far as the actual book goes, it was a very powerful story. Even though it's not really a mystery, you just want to read more to find out what happens. You begin to feel inside the story, in almost another reality. Anytime somebody talked to me or disturbed me during my reading, I would come out of the fictional dimension feeling almost hypnotic because of being into the story so much. This story is very deep, and certainly more than the Disney film portrays. I guess the main thought that I'm trying to send here is that the book is so much different and focuses on so many different subjects that in order to UNDERSTAND The Hunchback of Notre Dame you must read the book.
Rating: 4
Summary: SANCTUARY!!!!
Comment: I am an avid fan of the monster books. Hunchback, Dracula, Invisible Man, et ali. This is another one of those classics that allows you to enter a different world which is never really seen. Of course this is a classic, so no one will be reading this anyway, but if you are undecided, don't be stupid. Get this and read it!
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Title: Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo, Lee Fahnestock, Norman MacAfee ISBN: 0451525264 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: March, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas ISBN: 0140367470 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ISBN: 0812580036 Publisher: Tor Classics Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Great Expectations by Monica Kulling, Charles Dickens ISBN: 0679874666 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 19 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Lyle Miller, Judith Conaway ISBN: 0394850866 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 April, 1982 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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