Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 3

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Day 3

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

Picking one is hard and I guess it's go big or go home, so: Les Miserables.  I listened to the musical all the time when I was a little kid and I was totally obsessed from then on.  I read an abridged version at seven and the whole tome at eleven, and I've re-read it many times since then.  I tend go back to it in difficult times and it really means a lot to me.  It's full of wonderful characters that the different adaptations (of varying quality) and eras of fandom have done so many interesting things with, and I guess what really draws me to it is the scope.  There's just so much there, and you can spend days unpacking the language of a page or get obsessed with a throwaway mention of a character who never shows up again.  
     

Comments

[seleneheart]

The whole thing at 11??? Wow.

I had a book as a child that was just one chapter, I believe it was called The Bishop's Candlesticks. The musical is amazing, and as you say, the scope of the whole story is breathtaking, especially when you consider how many plot take place over mere weeks or months.

[stripytights]

It's such a good book - there's so so much to keep thinking about and unpicking! Great rec.

[firestorm717]

Les Miserables is such a deeply emotional, inspirational story. I came to it late (through the 2012 movie, then the musical, and finally the brick), but it's already gotten me through hard times. There are so many memorable quotes, but the one that's stayed with me is Hugo's description of Fantine's downward spiral as "society purchasing a slave" and his condemnation of prostitution as a form of slavery, most heavily weighed upon women. I was surprised (and pleased) to find such a proto-feminist view in a book as old as Les Miserables.