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4.32 AVERAGE
4.32 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wow, this book was a ride! It’s basically broken into 4 sections. First 300 pages are super pacey, engaging and you are with Edmund Dantes and know how he is feeling and what’s happening with him. The second 300 are quite confusing, with a whole new cast of characters, setting and you are quite removed from Dantes. As you reach the third 300 page section, things start to come together a bit and you can see the web that is being woven. By the final 300 pages, the pace is back to being crazy, things are happening left right and centre!
I missed the POV of Edmund once he had become the Count, which I don’t know if this was intentional to show the complete character change he had gone through or not. There was a lot of drama, lots of things that you had to suspend a little disbelief for and characters behaving in strange ways. However, none of this really matters because the story is excellent, the Count is an amazing character and you read for so long, you are very invested in what’s happening. I loved it.
I missed the POV of Edmund once he had become the Count, which I don’t know if this was intentional to show the complete character change he had gone through or not. There was a lot of drama, lots of things that you had to suspend a little disbelief for and characters behaving in strange ways. However, none of this really matters because the story is excellent, the Count is an amazing character and you read for so long, you are very invested in what’s happening. I loved it.
Revenge is sweet. I thought this book was great fun to read, despite being lengthy and a tad repetitive. I forgave it because it was written a bazillion years ago! The book is at its best a deep analysis of the human psyche and human desires, and at worst a summary of the typical European male fantasy of the post-Napoleonic era. Overall I enjoyed it.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Tutto sommato mi è piaciuto, è un libro d'intrattenimento, ma non ci ho trovato molto altro, cioè di ciò che di solito cerco in un libro:
- non mi ha insegnato niente
- non riuscivo a relazionarmi con nessuno dei personaggi
- non mi sono sentita coinvolta emozionalmente dalla storia e dagli avvenimenti
Sì, ogni capitolo era un colpo di scena quindi tanto di cappello a Dumas per l'immaginazione e il riuscire a tenere il lettore incollato alle pagine, ma non ci ho trovato sostanza. I colpi di scena erano da cardiopalma, ma alcuni eventi si sono prolungati troppo. Capisco che inizialmente era uscito come romanzo d'appendice e quindi doveva coinvolgere il lettore per indurlo a comprare i giornali successivi; forse leggerlo in questo modo era più tollerabile. Ho faticato non poco a finirlo, soprattutto verso la fine perché sembrava che Dumas allungasse di proposito il brodo volendo mantenere la suspense.
Non dico che non mi sia piaciuto, ma un libro deve emozionarmi e coinvolgermi; questo, invece, nonostante i colpi di scena, mi ha lasciato abbastanza indifferente. Anche i personaggi erano più che altro delle comparse, non ci trovavo profondità o credibilità, ed erano come burattini in mano di Dumas. Forse gli unici che si salvano sono il conte di Montecristo e Faria, di più il secondo.
Nonostante l'accortezza di Dumas di non lasciare punti poco chiari, alcune cose erano talmente poco credibili che più di una volta ho storto il naso. Per esempio nonno Noirtier e il suo "linguaggio" con gli occhi. Non ne potevo più.
A me sembra, sperando che chi ama questo libro non si offenda, una lunghissima telenovela con colpi di scena e spiegazioni al limite dell'assurdo pur ti tenere il lettore incollato alle pagine.
English
First of all, three stars means that I liked it. This is a real pageturner, every chapter has a twist and this goes on till the very last page. It's a very entertaining book but it hasn't what I usually look for in a book:
- I didn't learn anything new
- I couldn't relate to any of the characters
- I wasn't emotionally involved by the story, the events or the characters
Kudos to Dumas for his imagination because he is really able to keep the reader glued to the story thanks to many twists and turns, but I wasn't able to find more in this book. The twists were thrilling, but some events were too long to arrive to the end. I know that this book came out as feuilleton so I understand why it had the many twists and turns and some parts were too long to come to an end: the reader had to be engaged in order to buy the other newspapers with a new chapter of the book.
All in all it is a good book, but I have to be emotionally involved while reading a book. Also the characters, I felt them as background actors and not real persons, there was no depth or credibility in them. I felt them as puppets in the hands of Dumas only to purchase his aim: the count's vengeance. Only the count of Monte Cristo and the abbé Faria had more depth and credibility.
If I have to make a comparison, hoping people who love this book don't get offended, I would say it's like a soap opera full of twists and nearly hard to believe explanations of many events, with the only purpose to keep the reader glued to the story.
- non mi ha insegnato niente
- non riuscivo a relazionarmi con nessuno dei personaggi
- non mi sono sentita coinvolta emozionalmente dalla storia e dagli avvenimenti
Sì, ogni capitolo era un colpo di scena quindi tanto di cappello a Dumas per l'immaginazione e il riuscire a tenere il lettore incollato alle pagine, ma non ci ho trovato sostanza. I colpi di scena erano da cardiopalma, ma alcuni eventi si sono prolungati troppo. Capisco che inizialmente era uscito come romanzo d'appendice e quindi doveva coinvolgere il lettore per indurlo a comprare i giornali successivi; forse leggerlo in questo modo era più tollerabile. Ho faticato non poco a finirlo, soprattutto verso la fine perché sembrava che Dumas allungasse di proposito il brodo volendo mantenere la suspense.
Non dico che non mi sia piaciuto, ma un libro deve emozionarmi e coinvolgermi; questo, invece, nonostante i colpi di scena, mi ha lasciato abbastanza indifferente. Anche i personaggi erano più che altro delle comparse, non ci trovavo profondità o credibilità, ed erano come burattini in mano di Dumas. Forse gli unici che si salvano sono il conte di Montecristo e Faria, di più il secondo.
Nonostante l'accortezza di Dumas di non lasciare punti poco chiari, alcune cose erano talmente poco credibili che più di una volta ho storto il naso. Per esempio nonno Noirtier e il suo "linguaggio" con gli occhi. Non ne potevo più.
A me sembra, sperando che chi ama questo libro non si offenda, una lunghissima telenovela con colpi di scena e spiegazioni al limite dell'assurdo pur ti tenere il lettore incollato alle pagine.
English
First of all, three stars means that I liked it. This is a real pageturner, every chapter has a twist and this goes on till the very last page. It's a very entertaining book but it hasn't what I usually look for in a book:
- I didn't learn anything new
- I couldn't relate to any of the characters
- I wasn't emotionally involved by the story, the events or the characters
Kudos to Dumas for his imagination because he is really able to keep the reader glued to the story thanks to many twists and turns, but I wasn't able to find more in this book. The twists were thrilling, but some events were too long to arrive to the end. I know that this book came out as feuilleton so I understand why it had the many twists and turns and some parts were too long to come to an end: the reader had to be engaged in order to buy the other newspapers with a new chapter of the book.
All in all it is a good book, but I have to be emotionally involved while reading a book. Also the characters, I felt them as background actors and not real persons, there was no depth or credibility in them. I felt them as puppets in the hands of Dumas only to purchase his aim: the count's vengeance. Only the count of Monte Cristo and the abbé Faria had more depth and credibility.
If I have to make a comparison, hoping people who love this book don't get offended, I would say it's like a soap opera full of twists and nearly hard to believe explanations of many events, with the only purpose to keep the reader glued to the story.
Kept me entertained and engaged for hours and hours and many miles of running, but probably longer than it needed to be. Great voice reading by John Lee who distinguished between the many characters well with accent and tone. Some of the plot points were a bit contrived. Need some suggestions for equally engaging audiobooks to keep me running!