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brentleytw 's review for:
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
This book absolutely rips
Shoutout to my boys Luigi Vampa, Ali, Abbé Faria
Comin’ at you live from Les Champs-Élysées
Hope and wait gang stand up
This is a top 3 book for me and an easy five stars. Fun fact: it’s nearly 1300 pages because it was published as recurring serials in a newspaper running from 1844-1846. So every chapter really gives you something juicy as well as a reason to tune in next week, or now keep turning pages. Dumas’ father was a cavalry officer under Napoleon in Egypt, and later a general at Waterloo. So while Dumas is writing about Bonapartist conspiracies, his family was directly connected with multiple generations of Bonapartes professionally and socially. So that’s neat.
It’s also wild how many other stories and characters this book has influenced. Zoro is basically Mexican Monte Christo. Tio Salamanca and his wheelchair and bell from breaking bad are absolutely ripped from Noirtier.
Also, you can even watch the movie first and it doesn’t ruin the book because they are so different but both amazing regardless of the changes the movie made.
Great book. Highly recommend. 10/10.
Shoutout to my boys Luigi Vampa, Ali, Abbé Faria
Comin’ at you live from Les Champs-Élysées
Hope and wait gang stand up
This is a top 3 book for me and an easy five stars. Fun fact: it’s nearly 1300 pages because it was published as recurring serials in a newspaper running from 1844-1846. So every chapter really gives you something juicy as well as a reason to tune in next week, or now keep turning pages. Dumas’ father was a cavalry officer under Napoleon in Egypt, and later a general at Waterloo. So while Dumas is writing about Bonapartist conspiracies, his family was directly connected with multiple generations of Bonapartes professionally and socially. So that’s neat.
It’s also wild how many other stories and characters this book has influenced. Zoro is basically Mexican Monte Christo. Tio Salamanca and his wheelchair and bell from breaking bad are absolutely ripped from Noirtier.
Also, you can even watch the movie first and it doesn’t ruin the book because they are so different but both amazing regardless of the changes the movie made.
Great book. Highly recommend. 10/10.