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The spoiler-free short version: The Count of Monte Cristo is an extraordinary, long, complex (as in, takes a large chart to keep relationships straight) work with a very simple story idea: a young man is horribly wronged, emerges from prison with a new life and a vast fortune, and uses that plus his...
One of those books which you really should read the original, even though everyone knows the story from countless movie versions, etc. It's probably the best story of injustice and revenge ever told.2012 RereadOkay, really it's a first read, since I only read the unabridged version as a child.Mon di...
Re-read, er ...listen (audiobook).Update: I did not love this as much as I did when I was a kid. It seemed cartoonish and flat with little character development. Do I risk GR excommunication if I venture that maybe the movie is better than the book?Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is much, much ...