Reviews

Il conte di Montecristo by Alexandre Dumas

jimryan's review against another edition

5.0

I haven’t read anything this old in quite some time and expected that I’d probably give up at some point, but one month later I’m glad that I did not. Don’t get me wrong, I could’ve lived without huge swaths of this thing—approximately the middle 600 pages for starters—but it was always delightful, compelling, and even hilarious.

llaste's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

stephie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad

5.0

vedanaa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

jackievr's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

khazbin's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

janey's review against another edition

2.0

Holy cow that was a tedious read. I mean, I disapprove of waiting until the last minute to save someone's life when you could have done so with time to spare, and there was a mess of that going on and some of it was totally out of hand, as anyone who has finished the book will know. But what really irritated me on a page by page basis was the constant repetition -- not just that the episodes were repetitious, but that the lines were --
So that someone would say,

"The end is nigh!" and then their companion would say, "But wait! I have a letter from Monsieur X!"
"What," would say the first. "A letter, you say?"
"Yes, a letter!"
"Why, where do you have the letter?"
"Here, in my hand!"
"Well, what does the letter say?"
"Here, you shall read it for yourself!"
And he proceeded to read the letter, a letter which had these words in it, which indeed made up the letter and the letter read as follows: {text of letter}

Then, after the letter is revealed in full, the characters will discuss the letter and explain to each other and the reader the meaning of the letter and I mean it never stops.

Every now and then there would be this funny little line that would make me laugh but this is a totally different Dumas than the man who wrote The Three Musketeers. I mean, I know that he was writing for serial publication so every word counts but jeez.

blakeisgreene's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

ecross_poppy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

3.75

zterranosaurus's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0