The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.
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Re: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.
It is indeed a crying shame that our future generations are growing up, with extremely weak, so called independent characters, despite their own ideas to the contrary. The familiar mantra of "Get into the groove and enjoy the computer, games, and the like you old duffer". Well, I am sorry, but the globally/local neighbourhoods are rife with these malcontents, certainly in my area. Car crime, misbehaviour, not conversant with the effects of their stupid actions, the repercussions, the damage done, robbery, mugging, drug dependancy, ignorance in the educational standards etc etc. I am not saying all should be tarred with the same brush, but it is definitely on the increase. Along with this effect, we get the general lack of interest in books and their contents.
The Count of Monte Cristo is not everyone's taste, it can be rather a plodding story for some, plus many other books as well of course. One needs a certain level of historical education to understand a great number of references in a lot of these books, I personally enjoy that education. I also enjoy the need to refer to dictionaries, thesauri and. the inimitable web.... it is just my way though.....
Would it not be a great idea if one could shift back as an invisible presence to times gone by, to travel the streets, the inns, the great houses and families etc. To understand and learn day to day existence of those times instead of someone's modern ideology and speculation... ? I guess we all have an urge to fantasize about the impossible..... !!
Time to revarnish my false teeth and have a dust bath with the chickens again......!!
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You are right dear, The whole idea of vengeful purpose, vengeance is a bowl best provided cool and so on so on may seem understated but I experience Dumas implemented situation with a lot of charm and you end up as a audience becoming so spent in the result just expecting that yes actually please let him get his vengeance even is there is a aspect of you that has been trained to think that vengeance is not always the response.perusaphone wrote:I read this book years ago when a mere teenaged boy, it was as a direct result of watching a televised serial on English tele' featuring the late Alan Badel. The story portrayed in the serial was indeed a gratifying experience for me, it had the main theme of course, but, as I was a 'wet behind the ears' youth, I knew nothing of the finer points of Dumas' writings. I aquired a copy of the book through the local library and began to read. It was most efficacious, the printed word became an imaginationary paradise and my love of books was sealed for ever. However, due to my youthful exuberance in reading material and, lack of knowledge, I missed the fact that what I was in fact reading, was an abridged version, I still own it after all these years.
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this the greatest book their is all timeThrivingDad wrote:The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my all time favorites. The beauty of this book is that you take away different lessons when reading it at different ages. When I first read it, it was in middle school, and I thought it was a great adventure. Then I read it again just a few years ago, and the experience was completely different(and better).
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Honestly, this was one of the most appalling, most compelling, most entertaining classics I've ever read. The length was no problem; the story moved so fast. I don't think I was taken further aback by any event than by the fall of the house of Villefort, though the case of the foreign king and Mondego was... do I have to say? In the opera "Medea" by Luigi Cherubini, a mother kills all of her children for revenge upon her cheating husband, but something about the way Dumas described Villefort's wife's last actions left me about dumbfounded... Wow... Cherubini's music was fiery, vengeful, and graceful... Dumas' writing was hard- hitting. I can see why he was the big celebrity of all the writers of his day. He was an excellent teller of incredible stories, incredibly dramatic ones for dang sure!
Oh, and I enjoyed the difference between the character of Mercedes in the movie and her character in the book. The melancholy turn was just the kind of thing I read classic literature for! The count is certainly crueler in the book, too. There are certainly moments in which one can believe he has lost his soul to the wrongs committed against him, that he's gone past the point of no return. He's even more human in the novel than in the movie, a character I can definitely share a mind with. I could go on all night about Dumas' best work, and it is his best, isn't it? However, I'll stop my fingers now and depart this forum for now. Thanks for posting about this book, all of you.
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As for the movie - usually when I am watching one, based on a book, I try to separate them in my mind somehow and remember that the movie makers are not obliged to follow the story in the book line by line. That's how I can enjoy both, even if they are radically different from each other. I know the movie from 2002 with Jim Caviezel differs from the book but that shouldn't be a reason to be mad at the director or not to like it. I enjoyed it very much, even if it couldn't show all the details in such short time.
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“I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo