Huh. I never pegged you as a Les Mis fan, but I'm always up for a surprise. Request terrible Les Mis slash pronto. So this is a brand-new translation? I have one that must have been done in the sixties or seventies, which makes it hard to read because of all the stupid untranslated French argot - DAMN IT VICTOR HUGO QUIT IT WITH THE ARCHAIC SLANG - and awkwardness, but I re-read it because I love the story. (Except the sixty pages about the sewers. For srs John Steinbeck wrote books shorter than that.) If the Julie Rose translation is as good as you say it is I shall request it from the library! I could do with some awesome post-French-Revolution stuff.