dialyn: I'm just griping. I can see why Hunchback is considered a classic. For me, it was just a disappointing read because of my expectations going into it. If I had known less to nothing about the story before I started it, I probably would have come away feeling more positive about the experience. Which, in light of this thread, applies. The worst book any of us have read might be on somebody else's best-of-all-time list. And our individual perceptions about any given book might be drastically different if we had read the book under different circumstances. =)