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A review by stacielouise
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
adventurous
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
I want everyone to read this book. I want this, not only because I think it is really well written and the topic is engaging and informative, but because the author has instilled in me an awe for General Alex Dumas.
I read The Three Musketeers right before starting this biography of Alexandre Dumas's father, so I had the characters of the musketeers fresh in my mind. It added a whole new element to the novel after learning how much the writer was influenced by his father, specifically his love for his father. Tom Reiss explaining that love, and then recognizing it in the books I've already read by Dumas, filled me with so much appreciation and respect.
Just read it. Not only is General Dumas a captivating historical figure, but Reiss does a great job of laying the foundation of the world General Dumas was born into, lived in, and died in. I knew little before this about French history, and I new nothing about the civil rights movement that boomed in Dumas' time. Reading about it was both inspiring and heartbreaking. If I had to sum up this biography in two words, those would be the two. Inspiring and heartbreaking.
I read The Three Musketeers right before starting this biography of Alexandre Dumas's father, so I had the characters of the musketeers fresh in my mind. It added a whole new element to the novel after learning how much the writer was influenced by his father, specifically his love for his father. Tom Reiss explaining that love, and then recognizing it in the books I've already read by Dumas, filled me with so much appreciation and respect.
Just read it. Not only is General Dumas a captivating historical figure, but Reiss does a great job of laying the foundation of the world General Dumas was born into, lived in, and died in. I knew little before this about French history, and I new nothing about the civil rights movement that boomed in Dumas' time. Reading about it was both inspiring and heartbreaking. If I had to sum up this biography in two words, those would be the two. Inspiring and heartbreaking.