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I cannot remember a time in my life when I was not reading this book. And I will never be done.
And at this rate, I'm never going to get the slightly-less-horrible-than-before slash typed up, either.
I also appear to be collecting recordings of the musical, but since I have displayed a tendency to do that anyway (I already have, if you count movie soundtracks, three versions of Evita and two of Sweeney Todd), this is almost comforting in its familiarity. Even if the musical itself is becoming increasingly amusing as I get further along in the book. And musical!Javert is LAME, you guys, I still can't get over him trying arrest Valjean without backup when the whole thing with Valjean being ridiculously strong is how Javert recognized him in the first place. Book!Javert is all, "Amateur, get out of my way and quit making me look bad." It's not quite as random a detail for me to obsess over as it sounds, I swear.
I have this whole thing about how pretty much every major male character in the book is totally pure and chaste and virginal and all that stuff you usually find with female characters in older novels, and blah blah social issues blah blah, and how these days it just translates into making every last one of them look as gay as the day is long (especially Marius, ironically enough, since he's the only one of them who HAS a girlfriend), but that will have to wait until I have the brain for posting. Every last word of this post has been like pulling teeth. I just can't focus. So you've got that to look forward to, unless I forget. :D
And at this rate, I'm never going to get the slightly-less-horrible-than-before slash typed up, either.
I also appear to be collecting recordings of the musical, but since I have displayed a tendency to do that anyway (I already have, if you count movie soundtracks, three versions of Evita and two of Sweeney Todd), this is almost comforting in its familiarity. Even if the musical itself is becoming increasingly amusing as I get further along in the book. And musical!Javert is LAME, you guys, I still can't get over him trying arrest Valjean without backup when the whole thing with Valjean being ridiculously strong is how Javert recognized him in the first place. Book!Javert is all, "Amateur, get out of my way and quit making me look bad." It's not quite as random a detail for me to obsess over as it sounds, I swear.
I have this whole thing about how pretty much every major male character in the book is totally pure and chaste and virginal and all that stuff you usually find with female characters in older novels, and blah blah social issues blah blah, and how these days it just translates into making every last one of them look as gay as the day is long (especially Marius, ironically enough, since he's the only one of them who HAS a girlfriend), but that will have to wait until I have the brain for posting. Every last word of this post has been like pulling teeth. I just can't focus. So you've got that to look forward to, unless I forget. :D
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