valhrona t1_j1g46rc wrote on December 24, 2022 at 1:57 AM Reply to comment by LordOf2HitCombo in What are some techniques used in books that you just love for some weird reason by shorttompkins Victor Hugo does this a lot, especially in Les Misérables, where his digressions about churches and convents, Waterloo, Parisian sewers and street urchins, riots and revolutions....take up about a quarter of the actual novel. I enjoy them, but you have to be in the right mood. Permalink Parent 4
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Reply to comment by LordOf2HitCombo in What are some techniques used in books that you just love for some weird reason by shorttompkins
Victor Hugo does this a lot, especially in Les Misérables, where his digressions about churches and convents, Waterloo, Parisian sewers and street urchins, riots and revolutions....take up about a quarter of the actual novel. I enjoy them, but you have to be in the right mood.