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A review by desolation73
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
5.0
After being mightily impressed with the Three Musketeers earlier on this year, I pulled this chunker off the shelf and started to read it on a weekend break in Dorset. I had tried to read this before but the size of it put me off. Until I read Stephen Kings The stand and realised sometimes very long books are worth the effort.
Theres little doubt that this book deserves its immortal status as a literary classic.
Id say that it starts off absolutely brilliantly , sags a bit in the middle section but rewards your patience with it unquestionably in the finale. But it could also be that I ran out of stamina at some points in the reading process, maybe because this legendary book dates back to 1840 some of the language makes this a harder book to read than say Stephen King's The Stand which is a couple of hundred pages longer but this also makes finding the treasure and conquering it even more of an achievement. Finishing a book of this magnitude should fill a reader with an immense sense of pride but its a heck of a story and worth the time and the effort a reader has to put into it. Long may the treasure of monte carlo reward and inspire its readers.
Thankyou Alexander Dumas.
Theres little doubt that this book deserves its immortal status as a literary classic.
Id say that it starts off absolutely brilliantly , sags a bit in the middle section but rewards your patience with it unquestionably in the finale. But it could also be that I ran out of stamina at some points in the reading process, maybe because this legendary book dates back to 1840 some of the language makes this a harder book to read than say Stephen King's The Stand which is a couple of hundred pages longer but this also makes finding the treasure and conquering it even more of an achievement. Finishing a book of this magnitude should fill a reader with an immense sense of pride but its a heck of a story and worth the time and the effort a reader has to put into it. Long may the treasure of monte carlo reward and inspire its readers.
Thankyou Alexander Dumas.