Listened to an Audio Reading by Christopher Lee.

A dark yet beautiful and sometimes humorous reading. I don't believe it to be as beautiful as Les Miserables, however, I still enjoyed the words Victor Hugo strings together to weave the story. The tapestry the words create paint vivid images that come to life.

Many revelations in the book were not surprising, and Hugo does not insult his reader's intelligence by pretending they are. He simply tells the story, often jumping from person to situation, and expects you to follow him. And you can, very easily as if the story did not just leap through windows of towers down to the streets.

I read someone asking if this book was appropriate for a child of 11 - It depends on your child's maturity, I suppose, however I personally would not encourage my own child to read this until they were older. Many people believe Disney's Hunchback to be a very dark film for a child's movie, I think it light in comparison to the book.