Yeah, we are totally counting on the grandparents to let us get out to at least one movie, which if I get my choice will be The Hobbit for sure.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Kate P. - Nov 29, 2012 7:14:21 am PST #22854 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Connie Neil - Nov 29, 2012 7:15:12 am PST #22855 of 30000
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Huh. I've never seen or heard Les Miz. I guess I should fix that some day.
Jessica - Nov 29, 2012 7:19:30 am PST #22856 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I really need to finally read the whole book.
The movie made me want to reread it. Maybe this time I'll actually read the Waterloo bit without skipping. (Convent digression? Yes. Paris sewer digression? Hell yes! Waterloo....ugh. It's like Moby Dick's catalog of whales only WITHOUT THE INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WHALES.)
megan walker - Nov 29, 2012 7:25:37 am PST #22857 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Waterloo was my Waterloo.
Hugo is already a difficult author because of his ginormous vocabulary, the Waterloo chapter was simply the straw that broke the camel's back. (Or rather "the drop of water that made the vase overflow" as they say in French.)
Amy - Nov 29, 2012 7:27:19 am PST #22858 of 30000
Because books.
We were supposed to read it in French in my senior year French class in high school. I think I got through two pages.
Jessica - Nov 29, 2012 7:29:31 am PST #22859 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My French, at its best, was just barely good enough to be an obviously American tourist in Paris for a week. I read Les Miz in English.
megan walker - Nov 29, 2012 7:32:23 am PST #22860 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Either way, it's just so long.
Now I find myself wondering if it's usually abridged in English like Count of Monte Cristo.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 29, 2012 7:34:59 am PST #22861 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
We were supposed to read it in French in my senior year French class in high school. I think I got through two pages.
My senior year French teacher was much less ambitious- we read La Petit Prince!
Now I am earwormed with ABBA's Waterloo!
Amy - Nov 29, 2012 7:36:40 am PST #22862 of 30000
Because books.
My French teacher was completely burned out. I cut his class all the time, and if there was a quiz and he saw me in the hall, he'd say, "You might want to show up today!" He gave not one fuck about teaching at that point. So for the Les Miz tests, all you had to do was write a grammatically correct French sentence about whatever you wanted to pass.
Vonnie K - Nov 29, 2012 7:39:55 am PST #22863 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Gratified to hear all the good Les Miz reviews!
I am not a big fan of musical theater but went to see Les Miz live. Twice, I think, in my late teens. The songs are a part of cultural repertoire by now. I would think even the folks who have never seen the show or read the novel would feel at least a bit of familarity after hearing the first few lines of "On My Own" or "I Dreamed a Dream" sung. Whassaname -- Susan Boyle? The one who won that British singing competition and was in all the presses. Her big song was I Dreamed a Dream, right?