Oh, and there is this little tidbit that usually gets left out about the book: it's also really funny. We're not going to give anything away just yet, but we will say this: Disney will not prepare you for what's ahead.Īnd what exactly is ahead? Deformities. Watching one of those is like eating carob instead of chocolate or chowing down on Tofurkey for Thanksgiving. Most of the versions you'll see on the screen are totally sugarcoated. But how many people can say that they've actually read the book? Like Moby-Dick, it's probably one of those books you feel like you've read without actually having read it.īut that so doesn't mean that you can curl up with your rewound Disney VHS and let it do the work for you. Now, there aren't many people out there who haven't heard of the Hunchback, whether it's because one of the few dozen film and TV adaptations, or because of all those bell-ringing hunchbacks in pop culture, or because the book itself is très, très popular. We're talking, of course, about The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. That's right, we're talking about one of the most famous French novel ever written, that book by Victor Hugo that isn't Les Misérables ("Wait, you mean Les Misérables is a book?"), the story that made gargoyles and gypsies cool. Grab a baguette, put on your beret, and forget everything you know about the Disney movie, because we're about to get more French than Camembert.
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