The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Review of The Count of Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas
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live with the realization that you will live the rest of you
life never being able to read a better
book!
The Count of Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas was reviewed by Satt
Simply the greatest novel ever. always known for its revenge
plot yet somehow the way in which the count goes about this
infact makes the plot become a minor part of the books
greatness. far more impressive is the large number of charaters
that aren't just used to make a plot or make a book feel as
though there are alot of people, all of whom have motives of
their own personilties which interact with one another on such
a scale and with ue subtilty that it comes across as genuine
rather than just 'lobbing' people together for the sake of
plot. the book also pushes some of the taboos of even the
romantic era of which it was written which along with its
readibliy truely makes this book worthy of this list.
N.B. for people reading
this review please do not think that this is a story of just
revenge as it has be 'bastardised' by the film versions with
their indivual simple narrative. It is far more complex and you
should let yourself be engulffed fulled by each page. If you
allow for this to happen then like presivous persons have noted
before me you will be sad that the book does not continue for
an eternity and that there is little to no aspect of life of
which this book does not touch, be it love, greed, fear,
betrayal, death and (the overly mentioned) revenge, but
understandily so as the revenge deliverd by the Count is that
of sheer genius.
for other people whom have
read this book i am still shocked by learning after the first
time that i read this book that Dumas actually wrote based on a
wage per line which although may bring into question the depth
of which he writes in does show how great he actually was to
keep all the aspects of the plot, subplots and characters in
place with such grace as like a great conductor effortlessly
guiding his orcastra on a whim. Yet as i must mention again
unfortunately for us fans Dumas wasn't the greatest capatialist
of his day or im sure the novel would have been written (and
continually read) until his death which could have seen at
least another 10,000 pages or so the the greatest epic novel
ever written.
The Count of Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas was reviewed by Satt
This is my favourite book off all time!! I was genuinely sad
when I stopped reading it. A novel that has it all, an absolute
must read!
The Count of Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas was reviewed by RMac
I remember reading up to page 800 and becoming depressed at the
realization of having only 600 pages to go. The Count of Monte
Cristo is a novel of staggering brilliance. Dumas's story
telling peaks in the narration of an ordinary man perplexed by
revenge.If your looking for an entertaining read, you've hit
gold.
The Count of Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas was reviewed by
Kevin
This novel has the unique distinction in my experience of being
the only book I actually tore up and threw away four pages
before the end. It started out so magnificently and was
wonderfully well written until around halfway through when the
author seemed to gradually lose the plot. This happened
contemporaneously with the lead character experimenting with
hashish, so my view is that there is some element of
unconscious autobiography present and the author's adoption of
this drug resulted in the trashing of what could and should
have been an absolute triumph in european literature. A
terrible shame indeed.
The Count of Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas was reviewed by Paul
B.
The Count of
Monte Cristo is said
to be the greatest tale of revenge ever told. This novel has it
all. It has love,
sex, drugs, revenge, action, and mystery. The count is one of the
greatest heroes in literature to date. The patience he shows in
exacting his revenge is admiral to say the least.
The Count of
Monte Cristo is a master of disguise, a distinguished
gentleman, an accomplished scholar, and the hand of god
all rolled into one.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is the
story of a young sailor who has been cheated of the life he
was supposed to have. Our sailor’s name is Edmond
Dantes. On the
night of young Dantes’ wedding his supposed friends,
motivated by jealousy, betray him and get him unjustly
imprisoned in a French prison for several
years. Edmond manages to escape
after many years have past and that’s when the real story
begins. Dantes
transforms himself into the count of Monte Cristo and spends
decades planning and exacting his horrible
revenge.
This book is extremely long (1400+ pages) but not
difficult to get through at all. I actually wished it was
longer the first time I read it. I could have read ten
thousand pages of this classic novel.
It should also be noted that none of the movie
adaptations that have been made of this book do any
justice to it. In order for anyone to make a movie
that would compare with the actual book the running time
would have to be about 9 hours.
The Count of Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas was reviewed
by Anonymous
This novel, in my opinion, is a must read ! It
contains everything that one looks
for................love, revenge, adventure, hatred,
committment and last but not the least an interesting and
orignal story. This is one novel that I have read
more than three times and have enjoyed it more than the
previous occasion. The movie, I would say does not
do any justice to the orignal novel. I just read "
Prisioners of Birth " by Jeffery Archer and that reminded
me of "The Count of Monte Cristo " as well.
The Count of Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas was reviewed
by Anonymous
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