I totally have. *laughing* It's fun to be doing it at the same time as so many people interested in talking meta! Even if I keep feeling vaguely sheeplike for being part of the vast group of people reading it in the wake of the movie. But whatever, I'm having fun and I'm getting meta.
Right! If it were just a polemic, I would get bored much faster. But he keeps enthusiastically arguing at least three sides of most arguments, and the main point he consistently agrees with himself about is that it's important to feed and educate everybody to a minimum level as much as possible, which I find it hard to disagree with as a philosophy.
And yes, the phrasing is beautiful. I didn't expect that to make as much difference as it does! Often I'm stuck going "yes, the prose is beautiful, but I HATE EVERYONE AND I'M BORED STIFF." And instead I keep turning pages.
(Marius is such a glorious idiot, I can't even. I keep wanting more revolutionaries though; we get a tantalizing scene, and then it's back to Marius pining around the streets or Victor Hugo's Admittedly Interesting Thoughts On Street Children or whatever.)
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Right! If it were just a polemic, I would get bored much faster. But he keeps enthusiastically arguing at least three sides of most arguments, and the main point he consistently agrees with himself about is that it's important to feed and educate everybody to a minimum level as much as possible, which I find it hard to disagree with as a philosophy.
And yes, the phrasing is beautiful. I didn't expect that to make as much difference as it does! Often I'm stuck going "yes, the prose is beautiful, but I HATE EVERYONE AND I'M BORED STIFF." And instead I keep turning pages.
(Marius is such a glorious idiot, I can't even. I keep wanting more revolutionaries though; we get a tantalizing scene, and then it's back to Marius pining around the streets or Victor Hugo's Admittedly Interesting Thoughts On Street Children or whatever.)