This is truly a classic for me. I love revenge stories and added the bonus of a historical setting and I'm a goner. A great mixture of drama, romance, thriller and a pirate tale thrown into the mix.Definitely a keeper.
Written for the Celebrity Death Match Review TournamentBout: The Count of Monte Cristo vs. Catch-22Edmond Dantes: Welcome Yossarian to the Island of Monte Cristo, I challenge you to the Celebrity Death Match. I will taunt you and torment you. I will box your ears. I will draw my sword and...Yossaria...
I listened to this on audio. I am sure I would have never got through it otherwise. I liked this book alot. It was a very good story, and very funny in an unintentional way. The swooning, fainting, trembling, moisture on the brow, paleness, flushing of the cheeks, ect. cracked me up! These poor...
The Count of Monte Cristo has remained on my ‘to read’ shelf for a number of years, it is a considerable volume of 1250+ pages and the said shelf groaned a sigh of relief when I finally lifted the book from its responsibility. I was not looking forward to it; I had it in my mind that it would be ha...
Wow. This book was amazing. I love well-written classics, and this one fits the bill perfectly. Granted, there were some discrepancies, mainly to do with time and ages (saying Mercedes had a portrait of herself done when she was 25 when she really would have been 32, etc), but if I had not been read...
Very plot-driven, melodramatic and suspenseful, the book successfully intrigued me and captured my full attention although I don't think I would've made it through if I had read the unabridged version of 1300++ pages. Edmond Dantes seeks to avenge those who had wronged him by turning himself into a ...
Can a regular revenge story be written more beautifully ? I doubt!There is detail in it. A lot of it. The story is simple to begin with, but it was written for a weekly as a serial and it shows in the way the drama thickens and as one goes through pages of quasi philosophical discussions that happen...
Raising my clasped hands to heaven and casting my eyes upward with an indescribable expression of suffering as the vital force deserts my body causing me to fall senseless to the floor only to rise a moment later filled with a restlessness that cannot be assuaged, pacing endlessly, unconsciously twi...
I can now say I've read The Count of Monte Cristo and/or something by Dumas. It's obviously not a modern book, not modern sensibilities. So I guess it was an insight into the code of honor and revenge that I find so bewildering. While the final message is Wait and Hope -- the overall effect of the b...
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