Pages 555-602

This book doesn't seem to be moving anywhere right now, it's sort of stuck in character development hell at this point. Fuck you Victor Hugo!

Marius is poor and living on his own now (in the same building where Valjean and Cosette lived for a while, Les Coincidence!) and he's made some new friends, student friends....uggh, there's no one i hate more than students. Oh well at least i know they're all gonna die soon!

These pages are mostly just character descriptions of the students which is a little boring, I'm not gonna go into great detail about them but basically they're all young and they want to change the world. (God i miss being young and being able to think like that).
I found these guys much more interesting in the musical actually, perhaps it's because i didn't have to read every single detail about them like i do in this book. Come on Victor Hugo, let's get back to the actual story instead of just introducing more characters, you're good at storytelling but you insist on taking detours every single page!

The rest of the pages are dedicated to describing the poverty of Marius and these pages actually pissed me off a little. It's not Marius that pissed me off so much as how Victor Hugo went about describing his situation. First of all, i grew up in poverty so i know it sucks, but i also know that the poor don't like to be patronised and i felt incredibly patronised reading this part of the book. Victor Hugo writes about Marius's suffering like it's a great thing, like poverty makes you strong and that it builds character. I really hate it when people think like that, having "character" is overrated, i doubt there's a single poor person in the world that wouldn't trade in their "character" for money and security! I don't really like being talked down too by people who have no idea what they're talking about, maybe Victor Hugo did suffer in his life, maybe that's what he's relating to us, but don't make out poverty to be something cool that you should suffer through to become great, it rarely works out like that anyway.
It's not that i mind Marius's situation being included in the book, it's just that i already read about the plight of the poor ages ago, her name was Fantine and her story was done a lot better than Marius's.

I cant really seem to concentrate on anything today so that's all I'm gonna say about these pages, I'll just add a final note though, i saw this trailer for the first time last night and i honestly got a shiver up my spine when i saw it.

I think this could be worth a watch! It's not coming out until January though in England :( God! why would they tease us with a trailer so early!!!! And why is Cosette blonde??? Cosette's not fucking blonde! Apart from that it looks awesome, i cant wait to see it.