The first third of the book is insanely good but because it works by being so fast-paced and increasing the tension over and over again, by the time you're closer to the end it becomes kind of melodramatic.
This. Currently halfway through it and I feel like it should've ended 150 pages ago. This isn't a revenge story it's a fricking around for 30 years story.
12 months ago
Anonymous
Lol bro its epic as frick thats why. Its a vista into an immense romantic world. Also makes you proud to finish it. You should be through the part of the carnival in Rome right? That’s my favorite. The ending is rushed tbh but I didnt mind.
12 months ago
Anonymous
I finished this book a few minutes ago and I thought the last couple hundred pages were a slog. It gave us the conclusion then took way, way too much time getting there. Luckily the writing flexed itself enough that I didn't feel the need to drop it or I would have.
Like Jesus fricking Christ, we know Valentine isn't dead so why the frick are we reading Maximilian's pointless soliloquy on suffering.
12 months ago
Anonymous
I'm a couple chapters into Paris. The carnival painted a nice picture but the story doesn't require more setup at that point.
I did get through a good chunk of it, idk 5 years ago might try reading it this year
I don’t listen to audiobooks but the librivox reading of COMC by david clarke is amazing. Its on youtube in like 4 parts. I listened to it over the course of a couple months on my way to work and back. It’s incredible.
I don't like audiobooks because my mind wanders even quicker. At least with books I can reread if my mind wanders, with audiobooks it's quite a bit of pain.
I had the same problem, and I had to skip back quite often and relisten to parts but once you get into a rhythm you’ll be surprised by your attention span. But another option is reading it in big print on a kindle or tablet. Thats what I did with brothers karamazov and never even really knew how big it was until I saw it at a book store.
12 months ago
Anonymous
It doesn't help that I'm ESL and some vocab will ruin me because I'll probably misinterpret the context. We all know McCarthy (rip) and his style.
12 months ago
Anonymous
Oh shit. Yeah Id read everything in my OG language for sure. I’m glad its english its very elegant when you have an eclectic vocabulary. Currently trying to learn Portuguese
I don’t listen to audiobooks but the librivox reading of COMC by david clarke is amazing. Its on youtube in like 4 parts. I listened to it over the course of a couple months on my way to work and back. It’s incredible.
What is the best translation of this book? I have it in my reading list after crime and Punishment, which i havent started yet, so I'm really just asking to have an idea on which ones there are
>become insanely wealthy by sheer luck >spend your time devoted to enacting convoluted revenge plots on people via killing their families and ruining innocent people's lives
Why didn't he just shoot them? "Damn I hate this guy, I should kill his daughter and hope he goes mad" Just fricking shoot them all Dante you ridiculous b***h.
>become insanely wealthy by sheer luck
He became wealthy but became an intelligent and cultured person while using his time in prison to improve. >spend your time devoted to enacting convoluted revenge plots on people via killing their families and ruining innocent people's lives
His dad died as a result of their actions. I have the philosophy of "They put one of yours in the morgue you put ten of theirs." >Why didn't he just shoot them? "Damn I hate this guy, I should kill his daughter and hope he goes mad" Just fricking shoot them all Dante you ridiculous b***h.
It's Dantes not Dante. Also he made it perfectly fricking clear during the execution chapter
"If a man had by unheard-of and excruciating tortures destroyed your father, your mother, your betrothed, — a being who, when torn from you, left a desolation, a wound that never closes, in your breast, — do you think the reparation that society gives you is sufficient when it interposes the knife of the guillotine between the base of the occiput and the trapezal muscles of the murderer, and allows him who has caused us years of moral sufferings to escape with a few moments of physical pain?"
you have the internet homosexual. you have access to pretty much any book or movie at your fingertips not to mention 95% of know knowledge. Probably better than an old priest.
12 months ago
Anonymous
I'm not criticizing the book. I'm merely pointing out that Edmund Dantes did not help himself.
That’s the point of the book idiot. Most of his enemies deserved to die, but Dantes should have either sought Justice from the state or killed them himself. That would be Justice, not revenge for self satisfaction.
Dumas intentionally inflated the word count because he was payed by the line. It is genuinely shocking how bloated and redundant some stuff is in the book. I suspect the word count could be slashed 25% and nothing would change.
but i haven't read it yet. It's too fricking long.
It's so enjoyable it feels quicker than it is. It's the only books I've ever read 200 pages of in a day and I'm a brainfried zoomer.
The first third of the book is insanely good but because it works by being so fast-paced and increasing the tension over and over again, by the time you're closer to the end it becomes kind of melodramatic.
This. Currently halfway through it and I feel like it should've ended 150 pages ago. This isn't a revenge story it's a fricking around for 30 years story.
Lol bro its epic as frick thats why. Its a vista into an immense romantic world. Also makes you proud to finish it. You should be through the part of the carnival in Rome right? That’s my favorite. The ending is rushed tbh but I didnt mind.
I finished this book a few minutes ago and I thought the last couple hundred pages were a slog. It gave us the conclusion then took way, way too much time getting there. Luckily the writing flexed itself enough that I didn't feel the need to drop it or I would have.
Like Jesus fricking Christ, we know Valentine isn't dead so why the frick are we reading Maximilian's pointless soliloquy on suffering.
I'm a couple chapters into Paris. The carnival painted a nice picture but the story doesn't require more setup at that point.
I did get through a good chunk of it, idk 5 years ago might try reading it this year
I don't like audiobooks because my mind wanders even quicker. At least with books I can reread if my mind wanders, with audiobooks it's quite a bit of pain.
I had the same problem, and I had to skip back quite often and relisten to parts but once you get into a rhythm you’ll be surprised by your attention span. But another option is reading it in big print on a kindle or tablet. Thats what I did with brothers karamazov and never even really knew how big it was until I saw it at a book store.
It doesn't help that I'm ESL and some vocab will ruin me because I'll probably misinterpret the context. We all know McCarthy (rip) and his style.
Oh shit. Yeah Id read everything in my OG language for sure. I’m glad its english its very elegant when you have an eclectic vocabulary. Currently trying to learn Portuguese
I don’t listen to audiobooks but the librivox reading of COMC by david clarke is amazing. Its on youtube in like 4 parts. I listened to it over the course of a couple months on my way to work and back. It’s incredible.
What is the best translation of this book? I have it in my reading list after crime and Punishment, which i havent started yet, so I'm really just asking to have an idea on which ones there are
>become insanely wealthy by sheer luck
>spend your time devoted to enacting convoluted revenge plots on people via killing their families and ruining innocent people's lives
Why didn't he just shoot them? "Damn I hate this guy, I should kill his daughter and hope he goes mad" Just fricking shoot them all Dante you ridiculous b***h.
>become insanely wealthy by sheer luck
He became wealthy but became an intelligent and cultured person while using his time in prison to improve.
>spend your time devoted to enacting convoluted revenge plots on people via killing their families and ruining innocent people's lives
His dad died as a result of their actions. I have the philosophy of "They put one of yours in the morgue you put ten of theirs."
>Why didn't he just shoot them? "Damn I hate this guy, I should kill his daughter and hope he goes mad" Just fricking shoot them all Dante you ridiculous b***h.
It's Dantes not Dante. Also he made it perfectly fricking clear during the execution chapter
"If a man had by unheard-of and excruciating tortures destroyed your father, your mother, your betrothed, — a being who, when torn from you, left a desolation, a wound that never closes, in your breast, — do you think the reparation that society gives you is sufficient when it interposes the knife of the guillotine between the base of the occiput and the trapezal muscles of the murderer, and allows him who has caused us years of moral sufferings to escape with a few moments of physical pain?"
He was only able to improve himself in prison because a private tutor tunneled their way into his cell. This is not in any way a self-help book.
you have the internet homosexual. you have access to pretty much any book or movie at your fingertips not to mention 95% of know knowledge. Probably better than an old priest.
I'm not criticizing the book. I'm merely pointing out that Edmund Dantes did not help himself.
That’s the point of the book idiot. Most of his enemies deserved to die, but Dantes should have either sought Justice from the state or killed them himself. That would be Justice, not revenge for self satisfaction.
>alexandre dumbass
I just bought that book, what am I in for?
Unfiltered Kino. Best first 1/3 of a book I've ever read. Drags in the middle a little but it's still great. The Count is a fricking Gigachad.
Dumas intentionally inflated the word count because he was payed by the line. It is genuinely shocking how bloated and redundant some stuff is in the book. I suspect the word count could be slashed 25% and nothing would change.