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The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: ADVENTURE
Review: Dumas... Master of adventure. His books take you away, but you have to keep up with the pace. Fantasy is in a mix with reality. What is true and what is Dumas?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A must read book for everybody
Review: This is my all time favorite book. People would say it's THE book about revenge although I would rather say it's about getting even. The plot of story, the description of the charaters are all the best you can expect. You won't regret reading it and you would read it again and again like I do!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Count on one amazing tale!
Review: This is by far, in my opinion, one of the greatest adventure novels ever written. People who don't read the unabridged version, translated by Robin Buss, are doing themselves a tremendous injustice. It's true Dumas was paid by the page, but when a story is this jam-packed with detail and intricate sub-plots, who cares?

Edmond Dantes is set up by his enemies and wrongfully imprisoned within the walls of the Chateau D'If. While in prison he is told of a lost treasure on the isle of Monte Cristo, which he finds upon his escape many years later. Needless to say, his enemies have forgotten him, but he has not forgotten them.

The way he uses his vast wealth to utterly destroy the lives and families of his enemies is simply amazing. For those interested in Paris, the orient, scandals, murder and all-out adventure, it's hard to beat "The Count of Monte Cristo."

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Great novel, Bad Rendition!
Review: First off let me say that I love The Count of Monte Cristo. It is a great and exciting story that will leave you reeling.

However the Signet Abridged version is not a great clipping of the long saga. For the most part the book seems to flow well enough with only a few potholes. The story of his neighbor who let his father starve is completely dropped without it ever being resolved. However the largest problem I have with this version is at the loss of one of the books most important points. This version shows how Edmond Dantes/Count of Monte Cristo takes out two of his three enemies and leaves them in ruin but completely ignores how he finishes off with his final enemy (As you can tell I am not trying to give away too much of the plot). This leaves his final actions to seem confusing.

Please please read The Count of Monte Cristo, but I recommend getting yourself an unabridged version. But if you simply do not have the time then do not try this version as the cuts are so deep that it leaves the plot to bleed to death.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Zowie!
Review: This was a teriffic book, and well worth the length. It is about a man who is wrongfully accused of a crime based on forged evidence by his enemies. After spending a long time in prison, he meets a strange old man and discovers who has forged the evidencce against him. The many years in prison have changed him, and made him dedicate himself to revenge, which he completes very satisfyingly.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another true classic
Review: More than a story of revenge and personal satisfaction, "The Count of Monte Cristo" is a story of loss and achievement. Young Edmont Dantes, of Marseilles, is a good-natured and competent man, and, being so, many of his acquaintances long to have him out of the way. Four people, for different reasons, throw him, using a series of schemes, in a jail where he will pass the rest of his life. But in the ill-famed Chateau d'If he discovers a secret that leads to an incredible wealth, and he is able to escape and work his life on the sole purpose of destroying his ancient enemies.

We must understand that Dumas wrote this masterpiece on the apogee of romantism, and that is what Monte Cristo is: the utmost romantic story. And even if the potencial reader should think that, being written in the past century, it's going to be lots of cliches and known plots, think again. I don't want to spoil anything but to Edmont Dantes his revenge is not like what he thought it was going to be.

The book is very long and sometimes even boring, with sub-plots seemingly leading to nowhere, just to be all sewn up in the very end. The best part, however is the inicial (the first 200 pages, more or less), when we see Dantes' life fall apart and he looses everything he cares for. This part is so well and pationately written, allowing similarities with Kafka's "The Trial", but wherever Kafka is dark and cold, Dumas is colorful and emotive.

Dumas is one of the best nineteenth century writers and has left a vast amount of works. This is, in my opinion, his best and should be read by everybody who is interested in good literature.

Grade 8.7/10

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: pure masterpiece
Review: Novels such as these convince me that the larger the story, the more profound will be its ending. There are too many features to this book to do it justice. The basic story line follows Edmund Dantes, a young sailor accused of treason. He is sentenced to life imprisonment, but (as one can guess might happen) he manages an escape. The rest of the novel follows his plan to revenge himself. The whole while, the reader never knows how evil prison has made Dantes, and the possibility that he will spare no one in his mission is quite plausible. What emerges is a suspense in terms of plot and character intertwined.

Anyone interested in reading a huge book, but unsure which one to try first, this would be my top recomendation. Dumas' style is suited to suspense, adventure, and action, but is also moving and has penetrating insights into humanity. One will also find a wealth of descriptiveness to let your imagination absorb itself into another world. It is easy to read, and easy to pick up where you left off, in case you need to take a break from it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Superb, what a tale
Review: Superb, what a tale, I was riveted by the fascinating story, so deep so full of the deepest human feelings. The language is sophisticated and typical of the 19th century when it was written. It is an intelligent book and far more enjoyable than Victor Hugo's masterpiece "Les Miserables". I read it quickly, it was nearly 900 pages but how fast paced it was and how well the characters were outlined. Dumas is a master storyteller and apart from the authentic retelling of the story in the TV series with Gerard Depardieu there are few stories which compare. It is remarkable by how well they stuck to the storyline in the TV series and how well the characters such as The Count of Monte Cristo, Danglers, Villefort, Mercedes etc were portrayed.

The story of a simple sailor who is soon to become a captain and his love for the beautiful Mercedes who he is just about to marry and the terrible circumstances which follow with the framing of the sailor by his supposed friends Fernand and Danglers and the hellish times to follow, he spent 14 years in a dungeon. The suffering which is portrayed so well, its almost as if Dumas himself had suffered so, somehow the book actually gives an inkling of what it would be like to be trapped within a tiny dingy, dark and stinking room for 14 years with no recreation no entertainment noone to talk to and simple the inability to leave the room, madness seems inevitable. The Abbe Faria saved him this, so much love to give to Edmond Dantes, he restores his life. His subsequent enriching and terrible revenge and the need for him to free himself of the suffering of others only to find it hidden in his own depths. It just doesn't get any better than this. Its not often I give 5 stars. Its a miracle, ... To say the least worth every cent and I would have paid four times as much for it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A book you won't put down
Review: If you don't usually read books this long (unabridged version 1000+ pages) because you never seem to finish them, don't worry you will read the entire book quicker than most 300 page books. The reason is that it is just that good. This is the best book I have ever read. I read the unabridged version and finished it inside of a week and I am not a fast reader. The strategy and cunning of the main character Edmund Dantes is unparalleled by any other character in any other book. If you like a well thought out plot, you will find none better. The story line will take you with it and you will become totally engrossed in the book. It is very well written. Once you get used to the dialogue, the book flows so well that you forget you are reading. It is truly an amazing, well written, thought provoking tale.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Do not make the same mistake I did
Review: This is one the greatest book ever written.

I read the abridged version because it was shorter and cheaper. Big mistake.

Upon reading the cliff notes I noticed all sorts of thing I missed out on and some of them were pretty important (such as what happens to Danglars)

I have gone back and bought the Oxford Classics version and you should do the same.


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