@Azmodel, I share your pain, and curse Victor Hugo too.


I did not realize the rope thing until just now... o.0

I liked Frolo more in the book. He was not as bad as in the movie, he really wanted to take care of his little brother, but his brother was just rotten. If he wasn't so obsessed with esmeralda he would have been a good guy kinda. Plus Esmeralda was really kinda shallow in the book, she like Phoebes only for his looks. And then he blames his "murder" on her. I wanted to smack him.
But the end of the book made me cry with the bones.

Is an awesome movie!

I never really liked the movie: as a child (I think I was around 10 when I saw it for the first time) I actually felt cheated by the fact that the two good looking characters ended up together and lived happily ever after. I felt there was something wrong with the whole story.
That's why when many years later I read the book I liked it so much: the characters have so much more deepness in them. I really liked the fact that you can't really find a character who is truly innocent, nor one who is a true villain (well, maybe Phoebus. I hate Phoebus.)

i can't believe i am going to say this, but i do not believe i have ever actually watched the hunch back of Notre Dame.. t least not all the way through. cause right now i don't remember what happens on it.

i shall put it on my to watch and read list.

To the one who said The Hunchback is the worst classic I disagree. Try Flaubert's Mrs Bovary and you'll know true boredom and pain. And you can't imagine how many suicides it caused when it was published. No kidding.

I have never even heard of that one.

Well it's a classic here in France at least. I never new Notre Dame de Paris crossed abroad.

Set in the 1800 it is the story of a woman born from a peasans family who read too much romance novel. She married a countryside doctor who fell in love with her and was never happy with her life. Not working, having no children and no her occupation than spending the little money her husband brought back home on decorating she was looking for love in a local Casanova who finally got tired of her and she ended committing suicide because of her meaningless existence.

Many women recognized their lives in this book and did the same as Emma Bovary in the end.

To be short : a big book, full of lengthy descriptions (on full bloody page just to describe her down to her nails!!!) to show how common her life was, and the tragic ending. Bo~~~ring. Much like many of the classics of this period during witch writers took interest in the misery of the low classes of the society.
Classics from the Middle Age were much more fun to read.

I never got to study the Dangerous Affairs by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, it could have been interesting.

To be honest I never watched that movie.
I mean I have seen Hunchback if Notre Dame movies, read books, just not this one.

hehe im watching it again right now xD

Some of the most loved classics are some of the most boring books ever written.
Especially the French had a hand in writing those books once at a time as it was all the rage there.
I love to read but I have given up liking books like that.
On the other hand I am a big fan of Wuthering Heights and I know there are plenty that find that book as tedious as you can get them. :}