Loved itIt's one of the most impactful, incredibly written, brilliantly paced behemoth stories of all time. I would read a hundred more if they were written like that.
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Count of Monte Cristo (1830)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive „Sbohem, všechny city, které povznášejí srdce! Zastupoval jsem Prozřetelnost, abych odměnil dobré. Teď ať mi postoupísvé místo Bůh mstitel, abych potrestal zlé!" Je rok 1815. Lodní důstojník Edmond Dantès se chystá oženit s krásnou Mercedes. Intriky závistivého účetního Danglarse a žárlivost soka v lásce Fernanda způsobí, že Dantès je zatčen coby nepřítel státu. Náměstek prokurátora Villefort ho v obavě před vlastní diskreditací nechá bez soudu uvěznit v pevnosti If na doživotí. Nešťastný mladík málem zešílí žalem; život mu zachrání vězeň z vedlejšíkobky, abbé Faria, který mu věnuje přátelství, naději a nakonec i mapu k závratnému pokladu. Po dramatickém útěku z vězení Dantès zosnuje pomstu na těch, kteří se na něm provinili, a přijme identitu tajemného a úžasně bo-hatého hraběte Monte Cristo.
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- 584 pages
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Loved itDumas is a master, and this book is so good. Apparently, I was told that this is a bad translation, so I read a bad translation of a truly great book because it's one of my 10 favorite books of all time.
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Loved itwe did a group read online of The Count of Monte Cristo and oh my God fantastic
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Loved iti read it for the first time last year and i thoroughly enjoyed it is a massively long book but it is so worth every word because it is so rich and wonderful
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Loved itIf this book could have gone on forever, I would have been happy with that. Like the size of it once I started the story did not phase me at all.
Loved itI am all about this book it is so good actually liked it better than the three musketeers so far and I'm only a third of the way into it but I can't not mention it because I know I'm going to end up loving this book so much