http://disqus.com/by/pachinko_brain/enWed, 04 Feb 2009 08:53:42 -0000http://kariedwards.tumblr.com/post/74573456#comment-5834257<p>Yeah. I am not usually a fan of abridged books but 1200 pages is a bit much. The first 50 pages are spent describing someone that could be summed up in one or two sentences. Read the whole thing while on pregnant bedrest but by the end I was skipping entire chapters. Every morning I would update my son (then, a precocious 7 year old) on what I had read and he was spellbound. Read the book himself just a few years later. I was not so fascinated by epic battle scenes and discourses on the Paris sewer system. That being said, I was sobbing by the end of the book. Maybe hormones played a part in that but it was an intense story. I suggest you try again with a well done abridgement . I'll search out a copy of Notre-Dame de Paris and see how it compares. </p>pachinko_brainWed, 04 Feb 2009 08:53:42 -0000