I got 3/4 of the way through this, put it down one evening and just never picked it up again… the copy on my bookshelf still has the bookmark in it.

This book is incredible. I have enjoyed every moment of reading this in the past 4 months. There is so much to it. Hugo finds a way to intertwine every incident and character five times over.

I think he would be greatly disappointed how little the prison system, or effects of it, have changed in the century+ since he was writing.

I wish I’d had a pen or pencil at all times to underline the many, many beautiful and meaningful phrases.