i just bought the count of monte cristo (the author has a really funny last name by the way (but a great first name), and i had no idea it was so long. it is scary long. it will def take me a while to read this.
Ah, just watch the movie. LOL!
I think it took me about a year (with other books in between) to finish that. It's leaps and bounds above any movie, but it's much more of a tragic love story; movies are more about revenge, but I don't think that's a central theme of the book. I actually thought it was more of a girly book, but it's well written, nonetheless.
This is a great book! The beginning is really slow but don't let that turn you off to it. Once you get through that it's pretty brilliant.
And don't listen to anything brotherman says. He's obviously trying to support the man and mass media today or something. This movie sucks. It takes an amazing book and takes out everything that makes it good and leaves just stupid fluff so that the average American can be mindlessly entertained without having to think a little.
well i really liked the movie. the book is probably a lot different though.
It's so different that I swear, at some point, the director or screen play writer just took the book, threw it out the window, and just started making it up as he went.
i actually don't have a problem with that, as long as the movie is good. i liked the movie, i'll probably read the book at some point. like the bourne identity books and movies are completely different, there's really only a few similarities in the story.
i support lynz. i think i actually read this book because you told me how great it was. its defintely a great book. i remember reading the end and thinking that i kinda saw one part coming, and then in the afterward they talk about how the reader sees it coming now but that style of ending was the first of its kind in count of monte cristo.
I think the odyssey was the first ending of that kind. Let's not credit Dumas with too much. I agree though, the book ending is much better than the movie ending.