Unabridged Audiobook
This was an incredible translation and the narration was wonderful. The post novel essay took up nearly 30 minutes and itself was unenjoyable and opaque. It is easily skipped, thankfully. The story is a moving journey and provided insight into the lives and experiences of the 1830 French society. Beautiful and tragic.
Honestly, 60 hours and 36 minutes audio for 1247 pages: that's all I'm thinking. I feel like this is such a monster of a book that nothing I say is going to influence a reader either way. So, I'm documenting why I chose to read this. Loving the PBS Masterpiece production was not a factor, that stands alone as a priceless piece of art all by itself. Les Mis Is tough; all the French names would have overwhelmed me, and thus I chose an audiobook with a narrator, George Guidall, that I loved. He was the encouragement I needed. I loved his speaking voice. However, his translation was similar but not word-for-word with the translation I purchased. I read along, and it wasn't a problem.
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