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A review by jeremychiasson
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
5.0
At last! The deed is done. I spent so much time within the pages of this book, that when I ventured out into the real world, I noticed that I had begun to speak with the verbosity and stilted courtesy of a 19th century nobleman.
Having just completed the "Hannibal Lecter" series by Thomas Harris, I couldn't help but notice the immense debt that Harris owes to the "Count of Monte Cristo". Dr. Lecter himself seems plucked from the pages of a Dumas novel (minus the cannibalism).
I don't have much else to say about this book, only that time has rendered parts of it ticklishly out-of-date. For example, the most independent female character kept upsetting everyone else with her utter lack of feminine warmth. I was also amused when the Mad Abbe told Edmund that nearly all of the world's knowledge could be memorized if you read the right 150 books.
Anyway, I award 5 stars to the 700 necessary pages of the story, and I give 2 stars to the other 450. As much as I like 19th century literature, the widespread practice of serialization did not encourage brevity in these authors.
I would love to recommend this book to customers, but I fear the sheer heft of the tome might scare them away.
Having just completed the "Hannibal Lecter" series by Thomas Harris, I couldn't help but notice the immense debt that Harris owes to the "Count of Monte Cristo". Dr. Lecter himself seems plucked from the pages of a Dumas novel (minus the cannibalism).
I don't have much else to say about this book, only that time has rendered parts of it ticklishly out-of-date. For example, the most independent female character kept upsetting everyone else with her utter lack of feminine warmth. I was also amused when the Mad Abbe told Edmund that nearly all of the world's knowledge could be memorized if you read the right 150 books.
Anyway, I award 5 stars to the 700 necessary pages of the story, and I give 2 stars to the other 450. As much as I like 19th century literature, the widespread practice of serialization did not encourage brevity in these authors.
I would love to recommend this book to customers, but I fear the sheer heft of the tome might scare them away.