Before i read Les Miserables i had barely read any great novels in my life, like i said in one of my earliest posts reading had never been a great priority of mine.
But since reading Les Miserables i found that reading could be quite enjoyable, so after i had finished it i thought i would try reading a few other great novels too. Since last summer I've read Perfume by Patrick Suskind, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and i also tried to read Notre Dame de Paris by my good friend Victor Hugo ;) The Count of Monto Cristo by Alexadre Dumas and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf but i gave up on those three because i thought they were really boring.
As for the ones i did finish reading, they were all OK, but none of them made me feel the things Les Miserables made me feel. So I'm wondering just what exactly it was about Les Mis that got to me the way it did, why did that book affect me so much? and why cant i find another book that makes me feel the same way again? I dream of that! and i dream of finding another person in the world who understands Les Miserables like i do!
Sigh.....Why cant every book be Les Miserables?
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