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know the classic question if you were stranded on a deserted island, which books would you want to have well, TCOMC is my answer.
without a doubt.

not only would the,pages which are full of the most masterfully crafted and deceptively clever plotlines known to humanity provide hours upon hours of entertainment, but it would also be a massive inspiration to search for hidden treasure.


i am living for a reality where i sit on my hoard of wealth, plan the ultimate revenge against my enemies, and wait to be rescued as if my strandedness was my decision all along.
because thats the kind of selfconfidence edmond would want for me followed by the inevitable selfactualisation that forgiveness, patience, and hope are the best qualities a person can have.


this story is definitely in my top five favourite books of all time, but edmond dantés is the best character i have ever read.
i can think of no other character who i have connect to, bonded with, or empathised for more.
he will always have special place in my heart and on my bookshelf, lt

stars This book is long, Everything about it feels longfrom the words, to the sentences, to the scenes, Given that it was serially published meaning Dumas made his money by the word it's obvious why it's so damn long.
But trust me, this story is NOT a waste of time,

What it isis everything, What starts as a thriller, becomes a Game of Thronesstyle soap opera, and finishes as a murder mystery.
It's a revenge story, in theory, but more than anything it's about love, It's really an existential comingofage for adults, The length of seven books, The Count of Monte Cristo contains nearly as many themes and plots and characters.
Probably, it covers twice as many subjects, It's basically a Bible.

Something tricky about it is that the first hundred and some pages are absolutely phenomenal, The story starts better than just about anything else, which kind of surprised me, For something of this length, I expected it to be slowand at times it isbut the beginning is definitely a page turner, one that doesn't read dated at all, which again surprised me.
This book is like two hundred years old and translated from Frenchand while at times it's as headscratching as Shakespearethe beginning feels like reading a really good Michael Crichton book.


Edmond Dantes / The Count of Monte Cristo is, logically, the first character introduced, He's incredibly likable from the start: he's, has his shit together, treats his father like gold, is madly in love, and excellent at his job.
In short, there's a Disney story ahead of him, Just thinking about it is exciting, until in quick succession several extremely unlikable characters are introduced whom all conspire against him.
They're jealous little evil bitches and they plot and scheme, and as their deeds unfold, the story becomes a thriller.
Unfortunately, the characters that start the book are definitely the best, beside one or two others, Fortunately, after they throw a giant fork into Dantes' road, they don't just disappear, No, this is a revenge story, They come back and get what they got coming to 'em,

The problems start to arise after the firstor so pages, after Dantes gets screwed, suffers, loses hope, becomes bitter, and transcends into the Count of Monte Cristo.
After this, aboutnew characters are introduced, only one of whom really measures up to the previous cast.
Dumas spends the nextpages of the story predominately fleshing out these characters in the form of a soap opera, which is frustrating.
The previous ones are so good, you're way more eager to learn about them, It feels like you're getting off topic, lost in new characters that only fit into the story tangentially by theme.
And, although this part isn't necessarily bad or insufferable, compared to the thrilling first act, this soap opera seems that way.
It doesn't help that this part of the story is when the language dates itself, the sentences grow to their longest, the dialogue seems like one soliloquy after another, and the words they speak are plain archaic.
The story seems to go downhill, quickly picking up steam, ultimately headed for a nasty crash and burn.


It doesn't. If the first hundred pages aren't the best in all of literature, it's only because the last hundred are somehow even better.
All of the crazy complexity Dumas writes into the second act of the story comes together in the third.
What seemed to only tangentially fit into the story becomes the glue that holds together a masterpiece, And when The Count of Monte Cristo starts exacting his revenge you spentpages eagerly anticipating, of course it's satisfying as hell.
What makes it even better is seeing Edmond Dantes resurface himself in the ugly skin of Monte Cristo.
After all his misery has made his existence merely to put others through worse albeit somewhat justifiably, you start to love him again, and he shows that The Count of Monte Cristo isn't a simple revenge story that went on for way too long.
No, it's much more than that,

But if you want to know, you'll just have to read it for yourself, Wait and hope, my friend, wait and hope, Overpages of suffering and revenge!

I enjoyed it, I did not like it quite as much as some of the other big classics I have read, but it was very good.
The two things that brought it down a bit for me were:

It felt a bit more drawn out than it needed to be.
At a couple of points I was ready for Dumas to get to the point,
Some of the plot was very convoluted, While this did lend itself well to the Count's intricate plotting, I would occasionally get to a chapter and say, "Wait, what!" A few times I tried to reorient myself with chapter summaries online, but stopped after it became difficult to avoid spoilers.


With all the negative out of the way, I will say that is was definitely a great book.
At times it was riveting, At others it was clever, At pretty much all times it was dark and seemingly hopeless, The unabridged is great because it has everything as Dumas wanted it, but it does require quite a bit of commitment.


Final judgement: A must for those who want to read all the classics, but probably a bit much for the causal reader.
Why did no one tell me about this book I mean seriously, I was about a hundred pages in and I wanted to go find my freshman high school English teacher and inflict terrible, intricate revenge on her for depriving me of a great book.
I figured first I could assume a new identity, perhaps insinuating myself into her life, I'd make her trust me and put all her faith in me, and then I would UTTERLY CRUSH HER!!! MWAHHAHAHA!!!!

Seriously, this was an awesome book.
I am not a big fan of the Classics, really I usually get very bored very quickly with them, especially the Russians.
I don't know if it's the characters I can't relate to, or the writing that puts me off, but I try to get through them and my interest drops off

abruptly.
Especially the Russians. God save me from the Russians,

But this This waspages of concentrated awesome, A grand, intricate story of vengeance and I do love my revenge stories that I will definitely read again.
And watching sitelinkV For Vendetta is a lot more fun, What does it say about me as a critic when the best book Ive read all year was first serialized in thes From start to finish thoroughly enjoyable, Alexandre Dumaspage revenge epic The Count of Monte Cristo wastes little time in not thrusting the plot along, quite violently so at times, and includes within a brief, sketchy history of the return of Napoleon and his subsequent second defeat, a primer on hashish, and a protoseed for the detective tale that would later blossom under Poe and Doyle.


The story is less well known than that in The Three Musketeers, though the outline is familiar to anyone whos spent time reading and watching noir fiction and movies.
A young sailor, Edmond Dantès, engaged to be married to the beautiful Mercédès, is accused of a crime he has not committed by a man in love with his fiancée.
The accuser, Fernand, is assisted in his perfidy by one of Dantès shipmates, Danglars, and an envious neighbor, Caderousse, as well as the political calculations of the young royal prosecutor Villefort.
Cast into prison for fourteen years, Dantès befriends an Abbé written off by prison officials as crazy who bequeaths to him on his deathbed a hidden fortune.
Escaping from prison, Dantès finds the treasure, buys himself the title of Count, and returns to France to put into effect his longnurtured schemes of revenge.


All of that takes place within the novels firstpages, The remaining one thousand allows the plot of slowplanned revenge time to stretch its legs, look about, and move forward with the inexorable pacing of Fate.
Dantès, now in his persona of the Count as well as in other various disguises such as the Englishman Lord Wilmore and the Italian Abbé Busoni, plots a revenge that capitalizes on each characters weakness and vanity.


Sensing the malevolence in Villeforts young wife, he introduces her to a sleeping draught/poison of his own devising, with which she begins to poison members of the prosecutors family in an attempt to secure a sizable inheritance for her son by a previous marriage.
Through one scheme after another he reduces the proud banker that Danglars has become to a penniless wreck.
A similar betrayal in Fernands past is resuscitated in part by the Count and rises up to disgrace him permanently.
Caderrouse destroys himself through his own base greed and cunning,

All of this unfolds with delicious grace, and you relish each move the Count makes in his ongoing revenge, but underneath it all, a creeping note begins to sneak into the story.
When Dantès himself was sent to prison, it was an action aimed solely at him by the three conspirators, and yet the ripples of this violence stretched outwards, consuming his fiancée Mercédès crippling the business of his former employer Morrel, who never found a young captain equal to Dantès and crushing the life out of Dantès father, who eventually died of starvation.
The Count comes to see, through his friendships with the next generation of all the major players, how his actions cause grief and suffering that extend beyond the targets of his own revenge.


This realization makes up the novels closing chapters wherein the Count mulls over the right of vengeance and the notion of redemption and comes to peace with his idea of a godly revenge.
Partly this is inspired by an earlier episode when he is required to save the life of Villeforts daughter as she is in love with and is loved by Morrels son Maximilian.
But also a great deal of this has to do with Dantès love for Mercédès, as well as his newfound love for Haydée, a young Greek, daughter of the Ali Pasha, and his Dantès slave.


In fact, these are the twin threads around which the entirety of the story revolves, love and revenge.
It is Fernands love for Mercédès that leads to his conspiracy against Dantès, It is Dantès love for Mercédès that keeps him alive in prison, It is Maximilian Morrels love of Valentine Villefort that saves her life, as much as it is Dantès love of Maximilians father.
Likewise, Madame de Villeforts love of her son directs her toward her poisoning scheme,

And while it is Dantès revenge that brings every character to a reckoning, there is in each of the characters pasts delinquent accounts that eventually must be paid, a revenge against them by Fate of which Dantès is only the tool.
Caderousses backstabbing and betrayals will eventually get the better of him Villeforts illegitimate child will also return to play havoc with his name and reputation Danglars cupidity will trap him in a bandits layer and Fernands own treachery will lead to his public humiliation.


In this, it is as if Dumas is saying that all wicked men carry within them the seeds of their own destruction, carry it close to their hearts as part and parcel of who they are.
Those who live to a ripe old age without a calling to the judge, jury, and executioner of Fate are only blessed in that they never doublecrossed a Dantès.


In part based on a true story, Dumas novel runs through itspages with a leonine hunger and rapidity.
While he may have been paid by the line, the man was such an elegant craftsman that it is hard in thinking back through the novel to come up with any one part that could be successfully pared away without hurting much of the novels concerns and central conceits.
To lose many of the complicated subplots would make a hash of not only Dantès schemes and plans, but would also fatally weaken Dumas central message of justified vengeance versus pure malevolence.


If there is any part of the Counts character that at times must give the reader pause, it isnt his heartlessness toward his enemies or his financial profligacy en route to his revenge he literally tosses around millions of francs, its that he lives so strongly for a certain structured effect.
The scene of the Morrel family salvation, when Dantès, in his first act since coming to his wealth, rescues his former employer from ruin and suicide, plays itself out up to the very last second.
This is no doubt Dumas playing suspense thriller with his readership, but it leaves somewhat of a bad taste.
We are given a Count who prefers design to humanity, and while this is all very good for ones enemies, a bit more heart toward ones friends would be appreciated.


Its a minor enough quibble in well over a thousand pages that, let me repeat unequivocally, barely lets up or gives you time to turn your attention elsewhere.
But it remains, long after other larger scenes have left my memory, as a kind of capricious cruelty.
Perhaps we need to be somewhat frightened of the Count ourselves perhaps it is a warning, slyly inserted well to the beginning of the revenge scenario.
See, before you plot yourselves, the author seems to imply, see what inhumanity revenge can make you capable of.
It is a haunting suggestion, .