>be Catholic >read Les Miserables >the values espoused

>>9605783
Not really, but Les Mis is one of the few books that made me feel genuinely sad.

>>9605783
I remember reading Fahrenheit 451 thinking it was a criticism of censorship and loving it when it was actually a criticism of the western devaluation of literature.

I still do love the book though.

First time I read "The Name of the Rose" I was completely unaware of the historical and philosophical references, and just enjoyed it as detective fiction in the Middle Ages.

>>9605793
You mean stating the book thinking it was about censorship? Because I'm pretty sure the fire chief flat out explains that what they do is basically a sideshow, and the real force driving the anti-book sentiment is the people.

>>9605802
yeah, i know, i'd just read 1984 and i was pretty high on my censorship-fiction boner