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	• The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) Alexandre Dumas père Penguin Classics, 2003 - 1312 pages average customer review:based on 119 reviews view larger image
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Great Story

This book kept me up till 4 am many nights. You will not be able to put it down.

Amazing

Without a doubt, this is the best work of fiction I have read in a long time. The depth and detail is just stunning. People don't write like this anymore. I'm only about halfway through this (it's over 1,300 pages), but I haven't tired of it at all. This is really a character study on the nature of man at its core. The author's observations in this respect are sprinkled throughout the story and are both deep and humorous at times. Truly a classic work of literature. This unabridged translation is very well done, and maintains a "classic" feel - slightly challenging and not at all dumbed down in the language. I would recommend it to any mature adult. However, it is not for children or adolescents, due to the wide ranging and at times harsh situations.

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My Favorite Book of All-Time

Just finished reading this classic novel again for the second time. I read it the first time over fifteen years ago and at that time I considered it to be my favorite novel ever. Since then, I have probably read close to a thousand books (which is about as many as Harriet Klausner reads in a month) in the past decade and a half, and I still have to put this one alone at the top. It's the best! Reading it a second time made me appreciate it even more.

I have seen all of the movies that have been made from this incredible book. None of them have even come close to doing the novel justice. It is great to see that most of the Amazon reviewers concur! At the time I am writing this review, there have been 80 reviews of this book and it still is able to retain a five-star rating. That says a lot. Most of the classic novels that have been reviewed on Amazon have 4 and a half stars. However, not this one!

A lot of novels (particularly ones that are considered classics) take a while for the reader to really get into them. Not this one folks. From the first chapter on, the novel takes hold of you and just never lets go. Believe me, once you start reading this it's almost impossible to stop. You don't want to sleep, you don't want to eat, you don't want to talk to anyone, etc... all you want to do is continue reading on about the life story of our hero Edmund Dantes. The book may look a bit long, but believe me, you will be wishing that it was a hec of a lot longer once you are finished with it.

So order this now and I promise you won't be disappointed. It's a masterpiece!

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Brilliant!

Alexandre Dumas's classic novel The Count of Monte Cristo is an absolutely brilliant book. Dumas's genius shows as he intertwines characters and twists and turns through out the entire book. Definetly the best book ever!

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I enjoyed this translation of the book. It dispenses with the antiquated language from earlier translations and the inverted "said he" dialogue. However, as for the work itself I admit to being a bit disappointed by this "classic." I'm a big fan of heroic stories, and Edmond Dantes almost fits the bill. But too many times in this epic story I found it difficult to empathize with or even feel anything for this character around which the entire story revolves. I'm normally not one to ever read an abridged novel, but I'm thinking Monte Cristo could be that rare exception.

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