The Count of Monte Cristo

Posted on 25 January 2018 by Alexandre Dumas

In 1815 Edmond Dant s, a young and successful merchant sailor who has just recently been granted the succession of his erstwhile captain Lecl re, returns to Marseille to marry his Catalan fianc e Merc d s Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dant s is confined to the grim fortress of If There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. New Download [ The Count of Monte Cristo ] author [ Alexandre Dumas ] – kino-fada.fr Revenge is a dish best served cold And unabridged And translated from the French by Robin Buss.The greatness of this book can be illustrated by the following simple equations Whereas, the majesty of the Count of Counting added to the deliciousness of a Monte Cristo sandwich from Bennigans still does not overmatch the inherent kickass value of the Dumas novel which is, it can therefore be said, greater than the sum of its parts, both obsessive compulsive The Count and mouth wat Revenge is a dish best served cold And unabridged An...Re Read on audio and still on my favorites list ALL THE FREAKING FEELS I never in a million years would have thought I would love this book I never thought I would like something like this book I never thought I would fall in love with Dantes I never thought I would have so much anger, sadness, despair and happiness in this book I never thought, did I SOME SPOILERS Edmond Dantes was a wonderful man of 19 years old He Re Read on audio and still on my favorites list ALL THE FREAKING FEELS I never in a million years would have thought I would love this book I never thought I would like something like this book I never thought I would fall in love with Dantes I never thought I would...Spoiler alert First, make sure you find a copy that is unabridged Most editions in English ARE abridged, but usually don t say they are Not sure if this Penguin edition is, it s not the one i read Readers generally think of this as a tale of revenge For me, it was much deeper I m not a religious person at all, but for me this is a book that makes you question the existence of God or a god Edmond Dantes is without flaw, a truly good person, and his life is ruined because a others envy Spoiler alert First, make sure you find a copy that is unabridged Most editions in English ARE abridged, but usually don t say they are Not sure if this Penguin edition is, it s not the one i read Readers generally think of this as a tale of revenge For me, it was much deeper I m not a religious person at all, but for me this is a book that makes you question the existence of God or a god Edmond Dantes is without flaw, a truly good person, and his life is ruined because a others envy him and b he was the victim of an u...Why did no one tell me about this book I mean seriously, I was about a hundred pages in and I wanted to go find my freshman high school English teacher and inflict terrible, intricate revenge on her for depriving me of a great book I figured first I could assume a new identity, perhaps insinuating myself into her life I d make her trust me and put all her faith in me, and then I would UTTERLY CRUSH HER MWAH HA HA HA Seriously, this was an awesome book I am not a big fan of the Classics Why did no one tell me about this book I mean seriously, I was about a hundred pages in and I wanted to go find my freshman high school English teacher and inflict terrible, intricate revenge on her for depriving me of a great book I figur...Over 1200 pages of suffering and revenge I enjoyed it I did not like it quite as much as some of the other big classics I have read, but it was very good The two things that brought it down a bit for me were It felt a bitdrawn out than it needed to be At a couple of points I was ready for Dumas to get to the point Some of the plot was very convoluted While this did lend itself well to the Count s intricate plotting, I would occasionally get to a chapter and say, Wait, what A f Over 1200 pages of suffering and revenge I enjoyed it I did not like it quite as much as some of the other big classics I have read, but it was very good The two things that brought it down a bit for me were It felt a bitdrawn out than it needed to be At a couple of points I was ready for Dumas to get to the point Some of the plot was very convoluted While this did lend itself well to the Count s intricate plotting, I would occasionally get to a chapter and say, Wait, what A few times I tried to reorient myself with chapter summaries online, but stopped after it became difficult to avoid spoilers With all the negative out of the way, I will say that is was definitely a great book At times it was riveting At others it was clever At pretty much all times it was dar...Picture this you are nineteen years old with your whole life ahead of you, you ve just been offered the job of your dreams, and you re about to marry the person you ve loved since childhood when suddenly a couple of jealous men decide to frame you as a Bonapartist a crime which was punished by death or life imprisonment and have you sent away to rot in an island prison Let s jus.... 36 19 19 19 19 14 11 36 19 19 19 19 14 11 3 4 19 all human wisdom is contained in these two words wait and hope My initial thoughts while staring at this behemoth of a novel were 1 I am going to be reading something very, very descriptive like Victor Hugo s Les Mis rables, 2 it is going to take me forever to finish, and 3 I don t think I am ready for this novel, but I am going to start it anyways Let me state that I LOVE Victor Hugo s work I think his writing style is beautiful and very poetic, but drawn out He could probably desc all human wisdom is contained in these two words wait and hope My initial thoughts while staring at this behemoth of a novel were 1 I am going to be reading something very, very descriptive like Victor Hugo s Les Mis rables, 2 it is going to take me forever to finish, and 3 I don t think I am ready for this novel, but I am going to start it anyways Let me state that I LOVE Victor Hugo s work I think his writing style is beautiful and very poetic, but drawn out He could probably describe a blade of grass in the most descriptive way imaginable It is outstanding, and I am a bit jealous of his ability With that saying, you really need to be in the right mood to tackle his work, and to appreciate what he gives you He described the top of Notre Dame like you are standing right on top peering down Paris It is truly remarkable, ...They don t write novels like this any 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 D bats between August 1844 and January 1846, impatiently waiting for the next installment of Le Comte de Monte Cristo to be published, eagerly discussing each installment with my friends around the 19th Century equivalent They don t write novels like this any 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 D bats between August 1844 and January 1846, imp...Every soap opera ever produced owes an enormous amount of debt to The Count of Monte Cristo, a sprawling, messy, over the top, gleefully melodramatic bitchslap fest.In fact, I propose that the grandest of bitchslaps be henceforth referred to as a Monte Cristo Bitchslap because of the masterful manner in which Edmond Dant s delivers one colossal bitchslap after another to all who wronged him And to those who wronged him by association Thou shalt also receive a furious bitchslap Clemency shall Ever...

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25 January 2018

Alexandre Dumas