This is a definite strong 4 star book for me. Of course, for me the stars are usually relative to a variety of factors, so just because books get the same or different star rating by me doesn't mean much about what I think about those books other than that more stars is better. In this case I thin...
Grrrrr.... Chrome ate my review. I'll try againThis book seemed to go on endlessly, but it was a "good read", so to speak, so I didn't much mind. Basically, it's the story of a young man who was imprisoned unjustly and forgotten for 14 years. He made an escape and became fabulously wealthy. Then he ...
Edmond Dantés, AKA: Robert Donat (1934), Richard Chamberlain (1975),Gérard Depardieu (1998), James Caviezel (2002), Emily VanCamp (2011)★★★★☆ (This is a review of the audiobook.) Okay, it took me over three months to listen to this classic, that was very well narrated by Englishman Richard Matthew...
They don't write novels like this anymore. That's because they make television drama series and soap operas instead. To my mind, this novel is the 19th Century equivalent of a long-running and compelling television series. I can readily imagine being a reader of the Journal des Débats between Augus...
I know, heresy, how could I not like this? It's a classic! I think I'd have liked it when I was 14, but it's so transparently manipulative and melodramatic that I really couldn't take it seriously.
"It is written that the sins of the fathers shall be visited on the sons, even to the third and fourth generation." - Exodus 20:5"I want to be Providence, because the thing that I know which is finest, greatest and most sublime in the world is to reward and to punish."Satan: "All that I can do for y...
I have to say that I actually loved the book until after he escaped. The rest turned out mostly into unnecessary details filled with just a little bit of a plot. His revenge turned out less bloody than I expected it to be and the ending was - excuse me Mr. Dumas I respect you but I have to share my ...
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