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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
@emma-flournoy New thread to talk about what’s actually going on in the book now. XD
Let’s see… We had a bit of a tangent on Louis-Philippe. I have no idea what year we’re supposed to be in, because we keep jumping around. There’s lots of talk and preparation of revolution.
Marius cleared out of his tenement the day after the incident, so now…[Read more]
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
I blame my cold-brain. 😉 Yes, it does. XD You know who’s running from the law (Jean) and who’s just confused (Marius). XD
Oops, I must have sent it over the internet – must be a virus 😛 XD Yay, sick buddies. XD lol, yes, Orlando (not that I refer to it as that all the time 😉 ). But I called it that because it was made by…[Read more]
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
@emma-flournoy
So, I was actually almost starting to wonder is M. LeBlanc wasn’t Jean Valjean after all! :O But his behaviour as soon as Javert entered the scene made me see the error of my ways. What was I thinking?? XDThanks. Life is more settled, it’s just sickness now. Yes, my poor widdle violin (which, fun fact, I named Orlando XD) is all…[Read more]
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
Aha, I thought Bossuet was L’aigle. I recently came across him speaking, and I was thinking “He sounds like how Emma described L’aigle” and I remembered L’aigle wasn’t his real name, so I figured it was him. 😉
Courfeyrac seems really down-to-earth, but fun.Things are happenin’. Marius just got Javert’s help in catching Jondrette, but I think…[Read more]
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
XD
I like Courfeyrac, I think. I don’t know L’aigle well enough yet, but from what I’ve read of him, he seems very light-hearted and carefree. Not familiar with Enjolras enough yet either.
Anyway, Marius definitely reminds me of a more OTT Maximilian. XD
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Yup, L’aigle (aka Bossuet, as I think it calls him more later) is like that. Really sweet as a general rule.
Yeah. XD
Yo, how cometh violin? Mine’s actually going really well. Has something to do with having surrendered it to the Lord recently, undoubtedly… so God gets the credit. We’ll see if I can quit trying to do it on my own. XD
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Aha, I thought Bossuet was L’aigle. I recently came across him speaking, and I was thinking “He sounds like how Emma described L’aigle” and I remembered L’aigle wasn’t his real name, so I figured it was him. 😉
Courfeyrac seems really down-to-earth, but fun.Things are happenin’. Marius just got Javert’s help in catching Jondrette, but I think…[Read more]
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Yup. 😉 He’s great.
Ooooh. Such complexity, yes. XD I love those scenes.
Oh, yay for sickness. :/ Hope you get better soon. Yeah, that makes a lotta sense. I have problems with things out of my control. XD Well, maybe life’ll settle down sometime soon! I’m sure your violin misses you. 😉
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So, I was actually almost starting to wonder is M. LeBlanc wasn’t Jean Valjean after all! :O But his behaviour as soon as Javert entered the scene made me see the error of my ways. What was I thinking?? XDThanks. Life is more settled, it’s just sickness now. Yes, my poor widdle violin (which, fun fact, I named Orlando XD) is all…[Read more]
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Ha! But of course, what were you thinking?! XD I love it. Javert’s arrival can always make such things crystal clear.
Well I just got sick too (yeah, overnight 😛 ), so we can be a team now. XD Aww…de poor widdle fing. *sniff* Orlando! 😀 That’s hilarious. A violin we have I used to play on I named Fili once, but my current one isn’t named.…[Read more]
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I blame my cold-brain. 😉 Yes, it does. XD You know who’s running from the law (Jean) and who’s just confused (Marius). XD
Oops, I must have sent it over the internet – must be a virus 😛 XD Yay, sick buddies. XD lol, yes, Orlando (not that I refer to it as that all the time 😉 ). But I called it that because it was made by…[Read more]
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XD again.
Ooh, cool.Nice.
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
My word, Marius was being creepy. XDXD Why didn’t you just go talk to the girl, instead of making her father believe you were a creepy stalker-face dude?!
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I know, RIGHT? 😂 Poor kid. Seriously bro.
Isn’t Courfeyrac especially nice? And L’aigle hilarious (if a bit too practical joke minded)? And Enjolras is downright awesome, though you may not think so yet at this point. He can be over-hard on those he deems not devoted/whatever enough.
I know, Marius & his grandfather are sad. :”( It’s such a…
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I like Courfeyrac, I think. I don’t know L’aigle well enough yet, but from what I’ve read of him, he seems very light-hearted and carefree. Not familiar with Enjolras enough yet either.
Anyway, Marius definitely reminds me of a more OTT Maximilian. XD
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Yup, L’aigle (aka Bossuet, as I think it calls him more later) is like that. Really sweet as a general rule.
Yeah. XD
Yo, how cometh violin? Mine’s actually going really well. Has something to do with having surrendered it to the Lord recently, undoubtedly… so God gets the credit. We’ll see if I can quit trying to do it on my own. XD
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Aha, I thought Bossuet was L’aigle. I recently came across him speaking, and I was thinking “He sounds like how Emma described L’aigle” and I remembered L’aigle wasn’t his real name, so I figured it was him. 😉
Courfeyrac seems really down-to-earth, but fun.Things are happenin’. Marius just got Javert’s help in catching Jondrette, but I think…[Read more]
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Yup. 😉 He’s great.
Ooooh. Such complexity, yes. XD I love those scenes.
Oh, yay for sickness. :/ Hope you get better soon. Yeah, that makes a lotta sense. I have problems with things out of my control. XD Well, maybe life’ll settle down sometime soon! I’m sure your violin misses you. 😉
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@emma-flournoy
So, I was actually almost starting to wonder is M. LeBlanc wasn’t Jean Valjean after all! :O But his behaviour as soon as Javert entered the scene made me see the error of my ways. What was I thinking?? XDThanks. Life is more settled, it’s just sickness now. Yes, my poor widdle violin (which, fun fact, I named Orlando XD) is all…[Read more]
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Ha! But of course, what were you thinking?! XD I love it. Javert’s arrival can always make such things crystal clear.
Well I just got sick too (yeah, overnight 😛 ), so we can be a team now. XD Aww…de poor widdle fing. *sniff* Orlando! 😀 That’s hilarious. A violin we have I used to play on I named Fili once, but my current one isn’t named.…[Read more]
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I blame my cold-brain. 😉 Yes, it does. XD You know who’s running from the law (Jean) and who’s just confused (Marius). XD
Oops, I must have sent it over the internet – must be a virus 😛 XD Yay, sick buddies. XD lol, yes, Orlando (not that I refer to it as that all the time 😉 ). But I called it that because it was made by…[Read more]
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XD again.
Ooh, cool.Nice.
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
Yes. I hardly remember who is who, except Enjorlas, Courfeyac and Laigle, because they interacted with Marius.
I feel sad for Marius and his grandfather. It seems like a big misunderstanding between them, and I think they really do miss each other (I know his grandfather does; and I know Marius doesn’t think unkindly of him, but I…[Read more]
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
That was pretty OTT. XD I mean, his change of his political views was realistic (he was learning about a whole other side he’d never been told about before) if a little rushed. We only just met him, so we might not have cared about all that just yet. 😉 But opening the window was a bit OTT. XD But yeah, I think I’m going to like Marius.
I’ve just…[Read more]
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 5 months ago
@emma-flournoy Okay, so Marius has just been learning about his father, and is now estranged from his grandfather and aunt, and just left home.
I like Marius, so far. He kind of reminds me a bit of Albert and Maximilian.
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
I don’t know if he’s any degree of overdramatic. I hardly know the boy. XD
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
@emma-flournoy Oki, I’m not 100% certain was is going on (another tangent I think XD), but we’ve just kind of gotten to know Marius’ grandfather, and learn about Marius himself.
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YESSS yes yes yes yes that’s it. 😀 Kinda neat story huh? Esp. with his father and the tie-in with Thenardier @ the Battle of Waterloo. Ick.
And if you think Marius is any degree of overdramatic now, just wait. XD-
I don’t know if he’s any degree of overdramatic. I hardly know the boy. XD
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@emma-flournoy Okay, so Marius has just been learning about his father, and is now estranged from his grandfather and aunt, and just left home.
I like Marius, so far. He kind of reminds me a bit of Albert and Maximilian.
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Aha okay, I guess you hadn’t gotten to much of his drama yet when I asked. ;P I was thinking specifically then of when he was going through all those changes in his political views, and generally doing drastic things like spreading his arms and yelling out the open window something about Napoleon. Yeah, his grandfather is a bit tough. *rubs hands*…[Read more]
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That was pretty OTT. XD I mean, his change of his political views was realistic (he was learning about a whole other side he’d never been told about before) if a little rushed. We only just met him, so we might not have cared about all that just yet. 😉 But opening the window was a bit OTT. XD But yeah, I think I’m going to like Marius.
I’ve just…[Read more]
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Yup. 😀
Heh. I know the feeling. XD But yes, they are. All of them to some degree, some of them more than others. (*muffled screeching* ENJOLRASSSS) I love them all. Mostly. XD But they’re really an interesting group of young characters, and they do have much importance to play. What Hugo should have done was instead of giving us those info dumps…[Read more]
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Yeah.
Yeah, I get that, but old books have a lot more to them, I think, in terms of backstory and all that. It saves writing a prequel. 😉
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
So the story hasn’t really begun yet? Wow, and so much has happened already. XD
But I guess it’s like Count of Monte Cristo. I mean, I thought the story was going to be about Edmund Dantes’ life, then he went to jail and lost a lot of his life in there, and then suddenly it was also about the children of the people who sent him there. XD
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Just had several chapters about urchins of Paris, then about Paris itself, then about a specific urchin, and I know exactly who he is already, poor lad.
Have not yet been reacquainted with Jean and Cosette, and it’s been 8 or 9 years.
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
So, Jean and Cosette have been living at the convent, and I’ll be starting Book 3 tonight.
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Yay! Stuff can start really happening now! 😀
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Just had several chapters about urchins of Paris, then about Paris itself, then about a specific urchin, and I know exactly who he is already, poor lad.
Have not yet been reacquainted with Jean and Cosette, and it’s been 8 or 9 years.
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Aaaahhh yes!!! *hugs him* He’s amazing. And a very poor lad.
I think it comes relatively soon. Unless…well, maybe not as soon as I thought; OH, probably not. This part you’re on in general might be the one for introducing the rest of the cast. Which is still very good.
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So the story hasn’t really begun yet? Wow, and so much has happened already. XD
But I guess it’s like Count of Monte Cristo. I mean, I thought the story was going to be about Edmund Dantes’ life, then he went to jail and lost a lot of his life in there, and then suddenly it was also about the children of the people who sent him there. XD
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I KNOW. But in the grand scheme of the book, yes, that was still mostly set-up. Crazy. XD
Heh, sort of. XD Jean Valjean is most definitely the main character of the book, but several more characters enter the stage soon and are also really important. And all the foiling to be going on. O.o Zis be one of the best books I have ever read for foil…[Read more]
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Yeah.
Yeah, I get that, but old books have a lot more to them, I think, in terms of backstory and all that. It saves writing a prequel. 😉
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
I think in some places, but we voted it out from here several years ago. So you’ll be 13 hours behind then the time goes back.
Yep, now it’s Thursday, 9:45 am.
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
Now it’s 9:17pm. So you’re 12 hours behind me. Are you on daylight savings?
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
What time is it for you?
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Louise Fowler posted a new activity comment 6 years, 6 months ago
YES IT DOES! I just rarely use it. XD
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Ahhh! Marius and Cosette are just so adorable! 😀 And I feel sorry for Gavroche and his two little brothers who he doesn’t know are his little brothers. 🙁
It’s 1832 (or 31, but I think 32), currently. *nod* And not THE French Revolution, in case you were in any doubt. Some people think that for some reason. ;P This is just a lil’ minor one, which really did happen, but Hugo put his own characters in.
YES COURFEYRAC. O.o I love him so much. Ahh yes, poor Eponine. :/
I know! And YES, the poor…[Read more]
Yeah, I’ve recently got it straight that it’s 1832. Yeah, I figured. There was talk of one having happened in July, but I don’t think the actual one has started yet.
XD Yeah, he’s cool.
Yeah. I haven’t seen any more of them since they fell asleep in the elephant.
Now Jean Valjean is possibly taking her to England! So Marius went to his…[Read more]
WHOOEEE! Now the plot’s really thickening. And by now you’re probably REALLY in the thick of things.
Btw, isn’t it so neat that Gavroche is Thenardier’s son? I mean…he’s the total foil to his parents (and sisters sometimes) in regards to being poor and all that goes with it. He’s just so happy anyway, while all his dad can think of is…[Read more]
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Yeah! The revolution has really begun and it’s crazy. I haven’t encountered our friends yet, since Marius returned from seeing his grandfather, so I don’t know what’s going on for them yet.
Yeah, Gavroche is the total opposite – he is really happy! I think it’s because while they were well-off, his parents didn’t love him anyway,…[Read more]
*eternal sobbing*
Heheh. XD And mebbe some of it’s also that he’s learned to see the good in life no matter his situation, because he’s a decent chap. ;P
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Yep.
Wow, things are really heating up; Cosette is gone (at least, it looks like it), Marius has joined the bunch at the Corinth barricade, Eponine tried to make him die, but just died herself (poor thing; I don’t think badly of her even though she wanted my favourite character killed). Pere Mabeuf died, and Marius, expecting…[Read more]
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Uh oh. Jean Valjean found Cosette’s note in her blotter book, and he intercepted the one from Marius that Gavroche was delivering, and I dunno what he’s going to do!!!! D:
*shrieks* SO MUCH STUFF!!! Agh. You’ve probably already gotten over the climax at this point. Some pretty awesome stuff in there, eh?
Sorry my replies have been a little longer in coming; life’s insanely busy right now. 😛
@emma-flournoy
If I haven’t yet, I’m really close. It feels very climax-y. 😛
I read three more chapters than I intended to last night (I’ve taken to reading them in 3’s XD). The reason being, at the very end of the third, GAVROCHE WAS KILLED! And I couldn’t just finish there! D: :'( I tell you, I almost wanted to cry (and that’s hard to make me…[Read more]