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1010 Category Challenge : dreamlikecheese's 1010 Challenge		75	dreamlikecheese, Hoje 5:54am
50 Book Challenge : stephxsu's 99 for '09 Challenge		181	stephxsu, Hoje 2:39am
Alphabet Challenges : Wolfy's learning his ABC's		60	AHS-Wolfy, Hoje 12:56am
What Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2009		84	bell7, Ontem 10:10pm
1010 Category Challenge : auntmarge64's 101010 challenge		85	auntmarge64, Ontem 7:31pm
Go Review That Book! : Game Thread 4		60	Cecilturtle, Ontem 6:44pm
50 Book Challenge : Lilisin in 2009		56	lilisin, Ontem 3:38pm
1001 Books to read before you die : Discussions/ Group reading?		142	RebeccaAnn, Ontem 11:04am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : flissp 2: The New Batch		346	flissp, Ontem 7:21am
Book talk : Choose a Book That You Would Enjoy Reading and Haven't Yet		155	DeltaQueen50, Terça-feira 10:21pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Laura's 75 for 2009		188	alcottacre, Terça-feira 9:49pm
Geeks who love the Classics : What classic are you reading now?		236	Sandydog1, Terça-feira 9:42pm
Kindley Book Club : Whatcha reading part two		84	hazel1123, Terça-feira 8:59pm
50 Book Challenge : karspeak's 4X8 for 2009		140	spacepotatoes, Terça-feira 8:17pm
What Are You Reading Now? : BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read?		233	ThrillerFan, Terça-feira 12:03pm
1010 Category Challenge : Ellie's 1010 challenge		18	elliepotten, Terça-feira 8:40am
What Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2008		175	newlifecoming, Terça-feira 4:24am
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of December 12, 2009?		210	justmejo, Segunda-feira 11:24pm
Literary Snobs : What books are you planning to read in 2010?		28	mejix, Segunda-feira 10:01pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : deebee's 2009 reads		276	rachbxl, Segunda-feira 1:19pm
FantasyFans : Where are You in Fantasyland: December 2009 reading		16	popslan, Segunda-feira 7:50am
50 Book Challenge : bluemeanie11's 50 Books in 2009		62	bluemeanie11, Domingo 9:51am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Karen's 75 Books on a Stick (2009)		167	klobrien2, Sábado 3:05pm
Books that made me think : Not just your life, but you literate experience?		37	shanglee, Sábado 3:56am
1010 Category Challenge : tandem read / group read matchup thread		158	AnnieMod, Sexta-feira 12:10pm
1010 Category Challenge : laura_88´s 1010 Challenge		53	laura_88, Sexta-feira 6:52am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Kittybee's 2009 Challenge!		166	Kittybee, Quinta-feira 8:02pm
Reading Globally : Lilisin's literary airline miles.		12	lilisin, Dezembro 16
50 Book Challenge : pratchettfan's 2009 challenge		17	pratchettfan, Dezembro 16
What Are You Reading Now? : Top 10 Favorite Books		47	AlexAustin, Dezembro 15
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : BeSerene's 2009 Book Challenge		207	beserene, Dezembro 15
1001 Books to read before you die : A very early New Year's resolution thread: which 1,001 novels are you determined to master in 2010?		21	BekkaJo, Dezembro 14
1010 Category Challenge : sjmccreary's 2010 challenge		42	sjmccreary, Dezembro 13
Geeks who love the Classics : What are your favorite classics?		64	Mr.Durick, Dezembro 12
List Five Books Parlour Game : prison or captivity themes?		23	mamalaz, Dezembro 11
20-Something LibraryThingers : What are your top 5 recomended books?		27	LheaJLove, Dezembro 11
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Worst Literary Villains of All Time		60	Sandydog1, Dezembro 9
999 Challenge : Elizabethanne80's		30	elizabethanne80, Dezembro 9
1001 Books to read before you die : pamdis 1001 reading list		6	pamdis, Dezembro 7
Book of the month club : November 2009 Books		7	Booksloth, Dezembro 7
Books off the Shelf Challenge : RebeccaAnn's 2010 Off The Shelf		3	RebeccaAnn, Dezembro 7
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : aharey's 100 book challenge		4	aharey, Dezembro 6
What Are You Reading Now? : 2009 WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?		188	thanuj2409, Dezembro 6
1001 Books to read before you die : Soffitta1's 1001 Books- Lifetime of Reading		20	soffitta1, Dezembro 4
Dewey Decimal Challenge : bfertig joins the crowd		50	bfertig, Dezembro 4
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : cyderry - give it a try		219	cyderry, Dezembro 2
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of November 21, 2009?		227	Glorybe1, Dezembro 2
1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading from the 1001 list in November 2009?		79	jlelliott, Novembro 30
Alphabet Challenges : laura_88´s ABC		33	laura_88, Novembro 27
1001 Books to read before you die : maryjanemanolos progress		123	maryjanemanolos, Novembro 23
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Your personal top 10 all time favorites list(s)		296	tomcatMurr, Novembro 22
Historical Fiction : Message Board		250	Catgwinn, Novembro 22
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Greatest french book... ever... ( this is not a hitlist - this is not a hitlist- this is not a Aaarg		80	copyedit52, Novembro 19
TBR Challenge : BJ's 2009 attack on Mount TBR		42	billiejean, Novembro 19
Hogwarts Express : Word Association #26		544	jugglingpaynes, Novembro 17
List Five Books Parlour Game : Make way for royalty (and nobility and other gentry)!		13	mamalaz, Novembro 17
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Amy-Sue's 75 book challenge for 2009		156	alcottacre, Novembro 16
999 Challenge : Favourite Book in Each Category		10	hailelib, Novembro 14
999 Challenge : BJ's 999 Categories and Books		222	billiejean, Novembro 13
50 Book Challenge : elliepotten's 50 book challenge 2009		223	elliepotten, Novembro 13
999 Challenge : djay's		65	avatiakh, Novembro 12
999 Challenge : InfoQuest's 2d Challenge		24	InfoQuest, Novembro 12
Reading Globally : October Group Read - ghoulies and ghosties - recommendations		87	bfertig, Novembro 10
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Listmania I -- Ten Novels Likeliest to Survive the Test of Time, Not Written Originally in English		42	Macumbeira, Novembro 9
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 24, 2009?		220	bibleeohfile, Novembro 9
50 Book Challenge : i have time for reading again!		22	bonniebooks, Novembro 9
BookMooching : Lost/Found -- Things FOUND in a Used Book		144	CFiveSix, Novembro 9
20-Something LibraryThingers : What's your favorite book in your library?		121	dancingstarfish, Novembro 8
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 31, 2009?		201	teelgee, Novembro 7
Literary Snobs : E-readers: Yes or No		146	Sutpen, Novembro 4
Alphabet Challenges : dreamlikecheese needs to reduce her TBR pile ABC-style		17	clfisha, Novembro 4
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : La12 goes for 100		108	LA12Hernandez, Novembro 3
Combiners! : Combiner's Group Information, FAQ & Discussion Thread #2		94	BarkingMatt, Novembro 2
1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading from the 1001 list in OCTOBER 2009?		85	soffitta1, Outubro 30
Read YA Lit : Suggestions for an 11 yr old boy		64	sdbookhound, Outubro 29
Book Addicts Anonymous : What books have you bought recently?		163	LadyViolet, Outubro 26
1001 Books to read before you die : Sara's 1001, with Opinions		23	Sarasamsara, Outubro 25
Books that made me think : Message Board		143	shanglee, Outubro 25
50 Book Challenge : Fairywings 2009 list		14	fairywings, Outubro 18
1010 Category Challenge : Manda622's 1010 Challenge		20	rosemeria, Outubro 14
Science Fiction Fans : What Every Science Fiction Fan Should Read (?)		61	StormRaven, Outubro 14
1010 Category Challenge : bell7's 1010 Challenge		37	bell7, Outubro 13
Historical Fiction : Historical accuracy - recommended authors?		138	celticlady53, Outubro 12
999 Challenge : LA12 Try 999		93	LA12Hernandez, Outubro 9
1001 Books to read before you die : hdc versus 1001 books (2008)		2	hdcclassic, Outubro 8
Book talk : Choose a book that you haven't read yet. (4)		329	callmejacx, Outubro 7
Book talk : Looking for male authors writing romantic content.		30	omboy, Outubro 6
1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading, September 2009		83	jdaniel3760, Outubro 1
Hogwarts Express : Great Lines, Stuck in my Head		124	catbastet, Setembro 22
Book talk : Top Books of All Time, Classic Must Reads in your Lifetime...		12	thorold, Setembro 21
999 Challenge : shootingstarr7's		55	shootingstarr7, Setembro 21
Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 29		364	kooiekerhondje, Setembro 20
999 Challenge : Tafadhali's		24	Tafadhali, Setembro 17
Book talk : Do you always finish every book you start? How do you decide it is not worth reading?		84	VetaTorres, Setembro 13
999 Challenge : Madhatter22's		54	madhatter22, Setembro 5
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : MusicMom41's 2009 Reads 2nd Quarter		356	Cauterize, Setembro 4
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Nickelini's 2009 Reading List		338	Nickelini, Setembro 1
1001 Books to read before you die : What 1001 Book are You Reading: August 2009		86	klobrien2, Agosto 31
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : BJ tries to read 75 in 2009		356	billiejean, Agosto 27
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Just finished The Bonehunters (at last). Starting The Count of Monte Cristo which caught my interest after seeing the anime Gankutsuou.

... top ten for 2009 are: *I, Claudius by Robert Graves or, to borrow Merry10's analogy (post #12), west wing in togas *The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas - innocent man imprisoned seeks revenge For The Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke - innocent man transported to Austral ...

Just finished The Three Musketeers (it is quite the tome) and I just loved it, as I did The Count of Monte Cristo. Lots of adventure and swashbuckling. Just got The Children's Book A.S. Byatt from the library, and I'll only have it for two weeks, so I think I'll start it up. Karen

From lkernagh I pick The Count of Monte Cristo by, Alexander Dumas for my 1010 Challenge And from my library the book I am just finishing also a classic is The Woman in White by, Wilkie Collins it is Great!

... oman) 3) Haruki Murakami : Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (nonfiction) 4) *Alexandre Dumas : Le comte de Monte-Cristo (The Count of Monte-Cristo) 5) Stefan Zweig : Amok 6) *Alexandre Dumas : Les trois mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) 7) *Victor Hugo : ...

# 19 + 20 - both your lists have some amazing books in that I totally adored when I read them - The Count of Monte Cristo and Beloved are (I think) both in my Top 20 books ever... the Count definitely is anyway - Beloved may have slipped a few places with all the new ones I've read lately! #1 ...

... rch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Grapes of Wrath The House of Mirth The Golden Notebook Frankenstein The Count of Monte Cristo The Adventures of Augie March Crime and Punishment A Fine Balance Faces in the Water Cloud Atlas The Go Between Crash Kafka ...

Since we just finished Count of Monte Cristo, perhaps we should read something more modern next (and maybe shorter)? My suggestions, just from looking at my mount TBR: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Wis ...

I think everyone gets a vote. I haven't finished The Count of Monte Cristo and I voted, so you can too! I'll leave this up for four or five days before I make the poll. The thread was kind of dead for a long time so I want to give people extra time to realize it's up and running again.

I enjoyed our group reads of The Count of Monte Cristo and Dangerous Liaisons} and look forward to participating in any future reads. I would never have tackled either of these books on my own but they are two of my favourite reads for this year. RebeccaAnn, your suggestions are all great ...

... half months. Only one or two books were pleasure reads :( The others were for classes. I have every intention of finishing The Count of Monte Cristo, but it will probably have to be over Winter break. Sorry I couldn't keep up! Well, if everyone wants to go ahead and make two or three ...

Well, discussion for The Count of Monte Cristo seems to have kind of died :( Perhaps it was just too ambitious a read at too busy a time of the year, as was the case for me. I was wondering if anyone wanted to continue the group read. We could make a few suggestions each to read, I can make a ...

I would add Danglars from The Count of Monte Cristo, the White Witch from The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Madame Defarge from A Tale of Two Cities.

I would add Danglars from The Count of Monte Cristo, the White Witch from The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Madame Defarge from A Tale of Two Cities.

... - Literature and have not had a chance to read anything yet. I am resolving now that I am going to read the last few - Count of Monte Cristo, Life and Fate, and Vanity Fair. And I'm going to keep chipping away - however slowly - at Remembrance of Things Past. Ambitious, yes?

... and covering the kitchen table... Isn't it the thought that counts? :P Books currently reading: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories ...

... - especially with the holidays I will never get anything done if I keep reading so much - and I was successful - Yea!! The Count of Monte Cristo - I read about 400 pages because I was challenged to "Go Review that Book". Then I happened to look at it in my catalog and realized I had ...

... of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 5. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm 6. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 7. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 8. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 9. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 10. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas read November 25th. I finally finished this book. Altough it took me awhile it was SO worth it. Edmond Dantès is betrayed by his friends and he goes to prison. He escapes and years later he returns as a rich man called Count of Monte Cristo to ...

Book #20 Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas I finally finished this book. Altough it took me awhile it was SO worth it. Edmond Dantès is betrayed by his friends and he goes to prison. He escapes and years later he returns as a rich man called Count of Monte Cristo to revenge. There ...

Still reading Count of Monte Cristo slowly making progress. Also reading Brideshead Revisited and Sivistyksen käsikirja /Bildung.Alles, was man wissen muss by Dietrich Schwanitz for school.

... Lear by William Shakespeare God, Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert The Barefoot Princess by Christina Dodd The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

... I had read the book. So, I put down the Fforde book and picked up WH. Boy, what a book. I finally realized it's a bit like The Count of Monte Cristo but much more brutish and with no let-up. I was quite ready to be done. Glad I had a good book to go to next. 119. The Well of Lost Plots by J ...

... Tonga. I gave the Verne to our Public Library system here in Hawaiʻi; it has a small French Language collection. His Count of Monte Cristo definitely wouldnʻt be on my list, because I hate "revenge" yarns. (Every time I catch someone writing one, I swear I will "get" them before I die! ...

... Tonga. I gave the Verne to our Public Library system here in Hawaiʻi; it has a small French Language collection. His Count of Monte Cristo definitely wouldnʻt be on my list, because I hate "revenge" yarns. (Every time I catch someone writing one, I swear I will "get" them before I die! ...

... Dreadful Future of Miss Blossom Culp by Richard Peck 42. Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death by Richard Peck 43. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44. At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon 45. Bleachers by John Grisham 47. Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott 48. ...

Well, I haven't started The Count of Monte Cristo yet, but I did read Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, which has been on my tbr for 20 years. I don't know why I took so long to read it, because it was a good book. One more book to go for 2009. --BJ

... Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Testimony by Anita Shreve, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, Count of Monte Cristo, Crime and Punishment, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, Gone With the Wind, Still Alice by Lisa Genova, Girls Poker Night by Jill A. Davis, ...

... ever...) Something by Calvino? Maybe Invisible Cities? Three Kingdoms? And though it'll probably be shot down - The Count of Monte Cristo.

... ever...) Something by Calvino? Maybe Invisible Cities? Three Kingdoms? And though it'll probably be shot down - The Count of Monte Cristo. ETA: Dang, Martin slipped in before me...

Finished Count of Monte Christo which was wonderful. Now just starting The Hours. I'm not sure whether not having read any Virginia Woolfe will spoil this for me. Maybe it will inspire me?

I started re-reading The Count of Monte Cristo to review and realized I had already reviewed this book and I don't really want to re-read the entire book right now. I have updated the review a bit, based on re-reading the first 400 pages. You can read the review laura_88 in What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 31, 2009? (Nov 1, 2009, 6:58am)

Reading three books: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Peony in Love by Lisa See The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri

I´m almost done with Drowning People by Richard Mason. I have also started The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

... lton Wuthering Heights - E. Bronte For Whom the Bell Tolls - E. Hemingway Anything by Borges... Also, I've re-read The Count of Monte Cristo, The Wicked Day, and Dune every year since I first read them... They may not be my absolute favorites (any more), but I still love the three ...

... bookscouting, manuscript authentification and mysteries. I learned a lot about Alexandre Dumas. I had previously read only The Count of Monte Cristo--this book has definitely made me want to read at least the first book of the Three Musketeers cycle. I thought the mystery was good and it left ...

Count of Monte Cristo

... And what characters they are! D'Artagnana, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, Milady, Richelieu and the myriad others. This is no Le comte de monte-cristo but it doesn't have to be. It's just pure adventurous fun!

... - I re-read both of these books and there is no question that the new translation is a more beautiful read. With Count of Monte Crisco I enjoyed the Robin Buss's Translation - it reads more like the book was written in English. The most common translations out there read like it's ...

... - I re-read both of these books and there is no question that the new translation is a more beautiful read. With Count of Monte Crisco I enjoyed the Robin Buss's Translation - it reads more like the book was written in English. The most common translations out there read like it's ...

... Novels- Jim Henson's- Return to the Labyrinth- Toby is now a teenager and the new Goblin King. 6. From my TBR pile-Count of Monte Cristo- Fabulous I liked the movie the movie just filled in the details. 7. Audio books- A Man of Means- the way he gets into trouble and comes out on ...

... with only about 130 pages left to go. Earlier this year I read Vingt-Quatre heures de la vie d'une femme, Le comte de Monte-Cristo, tome 2 (having read the 1st volume last year) and Amok.

... this time, but I've got 'Hefty Tomes' for my 3rd category - think I'm going for Pillars of the Earth, Anna Karenina and The Count of Monte Cristo, though Gone with the Wind might slide into a cinema category. At the moment only my earliest categories are defined because I just can't make ...

400 pages into Count of Monte Christo all good so far, a mere 800 pages to go.......

... 4. 5. Possible candidates: Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft The Quest Of The Holy Grail The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon For The Term Of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke Middlemarch by George ...

... Gables - I never got round to it as a child and I doubt if I'll bother now. 5 Dune - just never appealed. 6 The Count of Monte Cristo - doesn't really appeal. 7 Brave New World - actually I'm pretty sure I did read this when I was very young but as I've completely ...

Hi Maryjanemanolos. Glad you liked The count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas is one of my favorite authors and has not disapointed me yet. I recommend The three musketeers when you feel like tackling another big one. It's a lot of fun! Cheers.

just finished The Count of Monte Cristo, which may be my new favorite book of all time, and am starting The Heather Blazing and reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by dailylit.com

186. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas. This is what life, and therefore the novel, should be. This exact thing. If it weren't for...air conditioning, indoor plumbing, and modern medicine, I would fervently wish to live in this time period. Dumas covers pretty much all relevant themes: love, ...

... I find myself trying to get others to read, so if I had to suggest 10 books the would probably be something like this. The Count of Monte Cristo Kokoro The Good Earth The Plague 100 Years of Solitude/Memories of my Melancholy Whores Language in Thought and Action Robot Dre ...

I wasn't able to join the group read of The Count of Monte Cristo over at the 1001 Books group, but they all seemed to whip through it in a matter of weeks. It sounds like a page turner and quick read, despite its girth. I'm with Judy, you can do it!

... Days Jules Verne 867. Little Women Louisa May Alcott 872. Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne 902. The Count of Monte-Cristo Alexandre Dumas 906. The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe 927. Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott 930. Emma Jane Austen 931. Mansfield Par ...

AHS-Wolfy - I love The Count of Monte Cristo ... well, actually everything that I have read by Dumas... and Stephen Fry. Suffice to say, I have tracked down a copy of The Stars' Tennis Balls and added it to my TBR pile based on your post above. Thanks and happy reading!

Authors F - Stephen Fry - The Stars' Tennis Balls. It's a re-working of the story of The Count of Monte Cristo so if you know anything of that tale you will know what happens in this one though it has been updated to the modern era. Basically, a young witless fop who just ...

Finished off the Stephen Fry category by reading The Stars' Tennis Balls. It's a re-working of the story of The Count of Monte Cristo so if you know anything of that tale you will know what happens in this one though it has been updated to the modern era. Basically, a young witless fop ...

I finished Dracula for October. My upcoming book is The Count of Monte Cristo, which I have discovered is super-long! The actual TBR copy that I had was abridged, so I went out and got a copy that is unabridged. Now I am not sure that I can finish it for November. --BJ

Finished The Fox probably raced through it unfairly as I was desperate to start Count of Monte Christo which I'm 2 chapters in so far.

Original List: 900-1001 902 Wuthering Heights 904 Jane Eyre on Mount TBR 906 The Count of Monte-Cristo 908 The Three Musketeers 911 The Pit and the Pendulum 923 The Red and the Black on Mount TBR 925 Last of the Mohicans 926 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified ...

... 'em so far and will come back to finish. (promise to self) Now just about to finish The Fox so I can then embark on Count of Monte Cristo which incidentally will be the 150th on the list. I had thought of reading War and Peace as my 150th but the Count is just about as hefty and ...

... here are my favorites of the moment: The House of Paper by Carlos Dominguez The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost

... The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Rating 3/5 85. Other Earths by Nick Gevers Rating 4/5 86. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Audio) Rating 5/5 87. Witch Way to the Mall by Esther Friesner A wonderful short story collection about ...

... I'll need to read 40 books a year - I read about 3-4 books a week, so this should be no problem. Last week I ordered Count of Monte Cristo and Fifth Business from Amazon. When they come, I'm hoping to catch up and join in on the group read for Monte Cristo. I got an e-mail this ...

Category 3: Golden Oldies You can't beat the classics 1) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 2) The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 3) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 4) 5)

73. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas What an amazing book. It worked out well for me that the writing was so compelling, since the book is so big. I've been reading this one for a few months, but lately I've put other books aside to concentrate on this one; I just had to find out ...

I finished Count of Monte Cristo! I'm tempted to start right in on The Three Musketeers--I just love Dumas. He's a master storyteller. Karen

... Written by a male author, it talks about a female becoming the biggest drug lord in Spain. The book's format also mirrors The Count of Monte Cristo.

... Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (did not finish) 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (own but have not read) 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (own but have not read) 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (own but have not read) 70 Mo ...

... fetish version of say Raiders of the Lost Ark. I quite enjoyed it (blush) Now to read some short stuff while waiting for The Count of Monte Christo to arrive. Starting with The Garden Party

... of the Bailey — will teach you more about the English criminal justice system than most law students ever learn The Count of Monte Cristo — possibly the most important and sensitive treatment of the revenge motif in literature since Hamlet Max und Moritz — ...

Trying to read as many little books as possible before we start Count of Monte Cristo on Monday...just finished The Stranger, just started Ethan Frome.

CLASSICS OLD AND NEW 1. Kidnapped READING 2. Little Women 3. Pride and Prejudice 4. The Count of Monte Cristo 5. O Pioneers by Willa Cather ***** 12/1/09 6. Frankenstein ***½ 11/23/09 7. The Good Earth 8. Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harr ...

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

... things as I go... A - Autofiction by Hitomi Kanehara B - The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf C - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas D - A Diplomat's Wife In Japan by Mary C Fraser E - The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje F - Freakonomics by Steven ...

About to start Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas

I'm reading Harry Potter...wait, that isn't on the list is it. Doh. hahaha.. (actually about to start Count of Monte Cristo)

I'd definitely be interested in reading The Count of Monte Cristo, if you guys will have me. I'm new to the group and I've never done a group read before, either, but I have several planned for the 101010 challenge next year and I'd love to see what all the fuss is about before then.

I bought a Penguin Classics edition of The Count of Monte Cristo today and should be able to start reading by next week. I've wanted to read this book ever since I saw Gerard Depardieu cast as Edmond Dantes in a television production of the Count of Monte Cristo a few years ago. The sheer size ...

Count of Monte Cristo is a great book, and reads fast (lots of action). As I mentioned before, I'm in the middle of it already, but I'll keep my big mouth shut so as to not ruin any surprises. It is a huge book. I'm reading it on my ebook reader just because it is so big. I also got a paper ...

The votes are in and it looks like we will be reading The Count of Monte Cristo next. I didn't realize when I put this on the list, but the book is huge. It's approximately twice the size of The Brothers Karamazov and Vanity Fair which made me laugh when I realized it. I have no idea ...

... Dame by Victor Hugo Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Candide by Voltaire Dracula by Bram Stoker The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Howard's End by EM Forster

... Brothers Karamazov, although I would like to read both soon. Both are pretty lengthy. From message 82, I would read Count of Monte Cristo, To The Lighthouse (haven't read a Virginia Woolf book yet) or Howards End. I've read the rest. Maybe we should use that web polling site we ...

Here are my nominations: Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Ethan Fromme by Edith Wharton Brother's Karamazov by Dostoevsky Howards End or A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

Here are my nominations: Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Ethan Fromme by Edith Wharton Brother's Karamazov by Dostoevsky Howards End or A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

Still chunking away on Count of Monte Cristo (I am loving it). Also reading Veronika Decides to Die, and finding it really interesting. Karen

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; Great book!

... A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal C Camilleri Andrea, The Shape of Water D Dumas Alexandre, Count of Monte Cristo E Evanovich Janet, Three to get deadly F G van Gemerde Yoyo, Sushi & Chardonnay

... look too challenging. If you were stranded on a desert island, which three books would you want to find there? The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - I love this, but never get round to re-reading it, because it's so lengthy. Complete works of Jane Austen - Comfort ...

I started reading The Count of Monte Christo this month, and I love, love, love it. It's hard to put down (especially since I have it on my ebook, so it weighs less than a paper copy would--it's a BIG book). Karen

... .. France Common within the States: Albert Camus : L'etranger JMG Le Clezio : L'africain Alexandre Dumas : Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Les trois mousquetaires Emile Zola : Au bonheur des dames Romain Gary : Les racines du ciel, Les cerfs-volants Victor Hugo : Les ...

Challenge dates: October 1, 2009 - October 1, 2010 Here are my categories and some preliminary titles for 2010. Might as well really ...

... of O by Pauline Réage read (October 7th -09) 2.Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro read (October 13th -09) 3.Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas read (November 25th -09) 4.Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh read (November 26th -09) 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

But they MADE me read it: 1. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (cousin recommended) 2. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (brother recommended) 3. City of Thieves by David Benioff (library patron recommended) 4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (friend recommended) ...

Just finished Don Quixote; wanted to get moving on another BIG book, so started Count of Monte Christo. Also have Rebecca and The Nun in the works. I am aiming for 100 books of 1001 read by year-end (I'm at 90). Nice to see you all here! Karen

If you want a big, fat Dumas then you should consider the unabridged Count of Monte Cristo. Nearly broke my toe when I dropped that sucker!

I remember reading The Count of Monte Cristo, but not The Three Musketeers and I actually have a copy (inherited) and it fits one of my categories. I am in for a group read. I'm off to fill in a blank on my challenge thread.

52. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Loved the movie with Gerard Depardieu and the book filled in the details. Edmond Dante is wrongly accused and imprisoned. After finally escaping he exacts his revenge. His enemies never saw it coming.

52. From my TBR pile-Left over from last year The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Wrongly accused and imprisoned Edmond Dante escapes and exacts his revenge. I loved the movie with Gerard Depardieu and the book not only filled in the details but brought greater insights into the ...

... about something (one or more) by Alexandre Dumas - anyone interested in Three Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask, Count of Monte Cristo, etc?

... for me I thought was vile, but my husband liked it. A naked lady photo, amateurish not some clipping from a mag. Found in The Count of Monte Christo. I love nice notes. If I sell on eBay or give on bookmooch, I generally put in a handmade bookmark with recommendations on it and LT/BM info ...

... by Lauren Weisberger 5.Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger 6.Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger 7.The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 8.Dracula by Bram Stoker 9.Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 10.New Moon by Stephenie Meyer 11.Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer ...

"You know that (Napoleon) Bonaparte languishes on Elba . . ." --said by a villain in a TV animation version of The Count of Monte Cristo As with # 37, I have no idea why this "Stuck" in my mind. But I was reminded of it by just having mentioned "Monte Cristo" in a thread on accuracy (or the ...

... Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron mask, and (the one we were reading a little of): The Count of Monte Cristo*. And he wrote many others, that are read only by his greatest fans. I suppose his "lies" --inaccuracies where he decided to ignore the truth, ...

... Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron mask, and (the one we were reading a little of): The Count of Monte Cristo*. And he wrote many others, that are read only by his greatest fans. I suppose his "lies" --inaccuracies where he decided to ignore the truth, ...

... by Charlaine Harris and recommend that series as well. I'm guessing most people have but, if you haven't ever read The Count of Monte Cristo in school or otherwise I would suggest picking that up as well. It's one of my all time favorites, it doesn't quite match your description of ...

... about the French revolution, which is quite heavy going! So the next 1001 book for me will probably be either Rebecca or The Count of Monte Cristo.

... when i go to France. I'll need something to keep me entertained as I'll be all on my lonesome - was thinking about taking The Count of Monte Cristo as well because it's a massive book which should take both the outward and return journey to read. Stayed up late again last night and read Riv ...

... se The Fall of the House of Usher The Pit and the Pendulum The Purloined Letter The Scarlet Letter Villette The Count of Monte-Cristo The Three Musketeers Vanity Fair Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights The Tenant of Wildfell Hall The Temptation of Saint Anthony The Ye ...

I just reread The Count of Monte Cristo- I had forgotten what an AWESOME book it is.

I could say the classics like: Jean Valjean, Eponine, Marius, Cosette, Javert, etc... in Les Miserables The Count in The Count of Monte-Cristo ... but there is one from my youth that I just have to say. Nancy Drew from the Nancy Drew series. I grew up with her and will always have fond ...

... want to find out what happens so you keep turning pages -- and even though it owes a lot to the Young People's edition of The Count of Monte Cristo, I think it stands up well on its own, even against Colfer's more popular books. The ending isn't blindingly original, but the action sure is ...

From LadyViolet's I would pick The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Having seen many adaptations on the screen (favourite being the anime series:Gankutsuou) it's past time I read this classic.

... The Goose Girl, The Book of a thousand days, THe Way of the shadows, The Truth about Forever, City of Ashes and The count of Monte Cristo. *deep breath* That's all I intend to buy for the next few weeks now. Bill: *shocked silence* Me: I know, go say a thousand "hail Marcuses" and ...

... of Cerberus. I think The Stars My Destination is a great example of an SF twist on an old story (the revenge story a la Count of Monte Cristo) that is also an excellent story on its own terms, and holds up very well, as Flit mentioned. If a person is a fan, she should try stuff and follow ...

... the huge package it came in. Now i have 10 new books to devour although i know it'll take me a fair while to plod through The Count of Monte Cristo which is even heftier than the Ken Follett books!

I wanted to add that I'm still chugging along through The Count of Monte Cristo. By the end of June I should be at 37.5 books to be on pace. Now I'm quite a bit behind. Looks like I really need to start picking up the slack!

... Dessen The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale The Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas PHEW!! dang that is a bit of a mis-matched batch lol I seriously hope i'm not gonna regret this...

... is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. My second favorite is Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela. My third is The Count of Monte Cristo. I love that they are all there in the same small kindle. k4k

#200 and 201 - We do have a lot of group reads right now, and I don't know if I can read Anna Karenina and The Count of Monte Cristo. We could make it next year's project though!

I read The Count of Monte Cristo as a teenager! I loved it! Melodrama, love, revenge, hatred, scary prisons - what's not to love? dk, I'd love to see a group read of Count.

I was hoping that we'd get in a group read of Count of Monte Cristo this year, but there are so many others going on, I'm thinking it might not be possible! But I definitely haven't had my copy for as long as you have, Cait! I think I got mine when I was 19, so not quite as bizarre... LOL.

... on that classic, but I did read E.P. Oppenheim's The Interloper today. This particular one smacked slightly of a young The Count of Monte Cristo-without-much-cause and was a good hundred pages longer than it could have been, but it was a nice read and the copy is very nice. I do like the A.L ...

Yikes. The Count of Monte Cristo is huge. My friend read it when we were about 18 and I thought she was nuts, but I guess there are teens out there that it calls to. In her case, I always thought it was the drugs . . .

... myself that I would read one enormous classic a year so that I could finally cross them off the TBR - I think I have owned The Count of Monte Cristo since I was about 15...really, what 15-year-old buys The Count of Monte Cristo?

... the May selection of the AMSA (American Medical Student Association) reading discussion group, and it was wonderful. The Count of Monte Cristo: I had never attempted this monster before, although I purchased a copy on a friend's recommendation sometime last year. What on Earth made me ...

... (as in, I didn't know what they would be), and one from BookMooch. Box of Books: Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (in one book) Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska On the Origins of ...

PishPosh, you've got some terrific children's literature in your library. I'm going to choose The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

... and Language in Thought and Action would remain, and added to that list I would have to keep The Good Earth by Buck The Count of Monte Cristo By Dumas Dealing with Dragons by Wrede (tease me about it and I'll fight you!) 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez Lolita by Nabokov The Ph ...

... about the Gothic romances since I didn't like Northanger Abbey or Jane Eyre. I've thought about A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo but I didn't want two from the same author. So I'm trying out The Innocence of Father Brown and Black Beauty. But I'm s till looking for ...

... novels. Les Liasions Dangereuses Gone With the Wind The Three Musketeers is good. Any Dumas, really - The Count of Monte Cristo is my favorite. I know you didn't ask for recs, but I hate to see someone have such a bad run of disappointing classics.

... yawnsworthy award-winners that nobody actually reads. 31) What is your desert island book? Something long - like maybe The Count of Monte Cristo. 32) And... what are you reading right now? Under the Paw: Confessions of a Cat Man by Tom Cox. My mum's library book, very sweet, quite ...

... yawnsworthy award-winners that nobody actually reads. 31) What is your desert island book? Something long - like maybe The Count of Monte Cristo. 32) And... what are you reading right now? Under the Paw: Confessions of a Cat Man by Tom Cox. My mum's library book, very sweet, quite ...

... at Tiffany's 12. Buddenbrooks 13. The Catcher in the Rye 14. A Christmas Carol 15. A Clockwork Orange 16. The Count of Monte-Cristo 17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 18. Doctor Faustus 19. Don Quixote 2o. Dracula 21. Frankenstein 22. Gilgames ...

... big book? Over 500? over 600? What to you is a big ol' book? I know obviously the War and Peace, Middlemarch, and the Count of Monte Cristo's, but I'm curious about the slightly smaller but still much bigger than the average 300 page fiction novel. Like Fingersmith at 580 pages, really ...

... 599 823 English fiction Gulliver's travels 833 German fiction Siddhartha 843 French fiction The count of Monte Cristo 853 Italian fiction Baudolino 863 Spanish and Portuguese literature Like water for chocolate 891 East Indo-European ...

And I also would like to read The Count of Monte Cristo, only forgot to mention it while struggling with the touchstones. (Read it only as a graphic novel when I was ten or so.:)

... it's cheesy name, this was a fairly good mystery with a good amount of humor thrown in. I still need to get back to The Count of Monte Cristo, but as we are going away this week I am not bringing that tome with me. I think I'm going to stick with mostly kindle books.

... it helps at all, but once Dantes' revenge plans hit their full stride the novel goes very, very quickly. My father bought The Count of Monte Cristo for me in middle school after seeing how much I enjoyed the above. Even then he knew better than to buy abridged copies. :-) Why yes, I am a Dum ...

... to sneak in another chapter or two at naptime. As long as I ignore the more temping pile of books waiting to be read or The Count of Monte Cristo which was ignored over the weekend and is now calling my name loudly!

... A so-so Chick lit book about a Jewish girl who pretends to be a Shiksa (gentile) to catch a Jewish man. I'm enjoying The Count of Monte Cristo but I'm finding I need to break it up a little bit and I'm finding any excuse in the book to avoid picking up The Two Towers....

... Tolkien 17. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 18. Oblomov by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov Currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien. After listing them, I'm further behind then I thought.....better start reading faster.

... What is your desert island book? Argh! Can I have the complete works of Jane Austen in a book? I'd be tempted by The Count of Monte Cristo too though - I loved it, but it's a tome, which means that it may be quite a while before I re-read it otherwise! 32) And... what are you ...

I just left The Count of Monte Cristo. He was sailing off into the sunset. Currently, I am with Gregorius in Sweden. He is a rather gloomy fellow.

... I watched the movie too - Michael Caine) 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (another movie, I'm ...

... a movie and I have read the book it is based on, I cringe! Very rarely have I not been disappointed. The only version of The Count of Monte Cristo that might be considered half decent is, in my opinion, the one with Richard Chamberlain. Even that one, though, is not totally faithful to the ...

#5> Enrique, I must disagree on your opinion of the movie version of The Count of Monte Cristo. I have read the book at least four times (yes, I like it that much), and to see how they changed the plot in the movie made me very very angry. The screenwriter (whoever he was) managed to literally ...

... that you won't read in most history books. And, all things considered, it's a fairly quick read. I've wanted to read The Count of Monte Cristo for years. It's my moms favorite book. I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure I would read it again. I wasn't quite what I had expected. That's the ...

... never heard of her, and I'm looking for some off-the-beaten-path reads for my sci.fi./fantasy category. Did you like The Count of Monte Cristo? I tried the Musketeer books several times, but could only get through The Three Musketeers once, which was very unusual for me---in my youth I ...

... like and you hated? Chronicles of Narnia 4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't? Count of Monte-Cristo 5. Which book are you saving for "retirement?" Who knows?! I’m too far from retirement yet… 6. Last page: read it first or wait til the end? Wa ...

Some long novels on my shelves, unread: The Count of Monte Cristo Don Quixote Some novels by Charles Dickens (I'll list them later) Lord of the Rings Gone with the Wind The Man without Qualities Ulysses The Bonfire of the Vanities

... John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Chil ...

... John Steinbeck *62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold *65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Chil ...

... Weir Portraits of the Riviera by Carolyn McKenzie Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsey Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin by Norah Vincent Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby H ...

... list that I want to read, but I don't own any of them right now. I still have seven unread 1001 books (The Ambassadors, The Count of Monte Cristo, Eyeless in Gaza, The Leopard, Lord Jim, The Rebel, and Women in Love. For some reason none of them strike me as appealing right now.

From the Fix-It thread: Is it possible to have The Count of Monte Cristo show up here, http://www.librarything.com/author/dumasalexandre instead of here, http://www.librarything.com/author/prealexandredumas It just seems better to me, but if this is too picky, just let me know. My ...

Is it possible to have The Count of Monte Cristo show up here, http://www.librarything.com/author/dumasalexandre, instead of here, http://www.librarything.com/author/prealexandredumas. It just seems better to me, but if this is too picky, just let me know. Thanks, k4k

... it down later. The first four or five chapters...ugh. If I hadn't read The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Count of Monte Cristo, I would never have gotten as far as I did.

... it down later. The first four or five chapters...ugh. If I hadn't read The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Count of Monte Cristo, I would never have gotten as far as I did.

... Dreadful Future of Miss Blossom Culp by Richard Peck 42. Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death by Richard Peck 43. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44. At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon 45. Bleachers by John Grisham 47. Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott 48. ...

... in. Keep it to a manageable level. Over the past couple of days I've had quite a spending spree: From Amazon: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin by Norah Vincent Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby ...

>190 Isn't he? The Count of Monte Cristo was magnificent, though I was quite angry when I realized I had bought the abridged version. I'm still meaning to get the 1000+ page version, but don't know when I'll have the time read it all.

9. Revenge by Stephen Fry This was... different. I haven't read The Count of Monte Cristo, on which it is apparently based, so I didn't know what to expect, and as it turns out the cover picture gave me no idea. I would have liked it a lot better if any of the characters had been sympathetic (Bab ...

... my Kindle, see how it works. krazy4katz (me too, just too allergic to be near them), I've got Jane Austen and The Count of Monte Cristo read to read. The latter is one of my favorite stories of all time, along with Jane Eyre, also waiting to be reread. I will say I read a LOT ...

... originally watercolors. Of course they don't look that great on my kindle, but they should be lovely on the Kindle 2. The Count of Monte Cristo was also good. I didn't have to be constantly aware that I was reading such a big book! I am planning to begin The White Tiger next, just for ...

... of it out there that's pretty darned good, but read the book first, of course). And The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both great fun, though I like the latter better. Anne of Green Gables, definitely. Memorable characters, especially Anne herself. Madame ...

... been on my TBR pile for years and I FINALLY read it! I have to say I didn't like this as much as I thought I would. I loved The Count of Monte Cristo, so I had very high hopes for this but found it a little disappointing. That said, I did enjoy it, it just took me a while longer than usual to ...

Hmmm.....this is a tough one The Power of One might be my favorite book of all time, though The Count of Montecristo is also up there.

>95 lilisin - I LOVED The Count of Monte Cristo and pretty much everything else written by Alexandre Dumas. I hope you are enjoying it!

I am back in France with The Count of Monte Cristo finally finishing volume 2.

... which makes me feel better about not having read them yet! The list includes: Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, The Count of Monte Christo, The Three Musketeers and *ducks* Lord of the Rings. I'm aso going to read all the Austen novels, having received a beautiful box set for C ...

Hearty agreement on the excellence of The Count of Monte Cristo. And for anyone who enjoys old-school science fiction, one of the early greats is Alfred Bester's retelling of Count, The Stars My Destination.

Clam, I'll put in my recommendations also for The Count of Monte Cristo, which I recently re-read because I love it so much (I don't think any of the dramatizations I've seen have done it justice, although the Guy Pearce one was the worst, IMHO) and for Persuasion, which is tied with P&P for my ...

... Heaney translation last year and thought it was really good. Go get that one! Bucket list books: I am looking forward to The Count of Monte Cristo (I *loved* The Three Musketeers) and also have Moby Dick, Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Idiot on my shelves. I want to get round ...

Hi everyone, I was working on The Count of Monte Cristo. Now that we can separate authors with the same name, should we combine The Count that appears under Alexandre Dumas (1) and Alexandre Duma pére? I thought I should, but then thought it better to ask, since I know this system was put ...

Clam - You should read The Count of Monte Cristo sooner rather than later. It's a *great* book. I loved it, particularly all the bits that get left out of the movie adaptations. If you can find it, as an intro, watch the television version that had Richard Chamberlain of Dr. Kildare fame starring ...

If Hamlet doesn't strike your fancy, another revenge story is The Count of Monte Cristo.

I'd like to read Les Miserables in full, The Count of Monte Cristo, and more Charles Dickens while I'm at it, especially A Tale of Two Cities since I loved the abridged version in high school. I also plan to read Emma and have two versions of it, but it's my last Austen and I will mourn ...

... Read Before You are Turned Into a Newt list. Other than that, I've been reading more classics and really enjoying it. The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorites. Pride and Prejudice grew on me. Currently reading The Great Gatsby and it's... meh... okay, I guess. Also, The Odys ...

... The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon. I think that's enough to keep me busy for a few years. I loved The Count of Monte Cristo, and the D'Artagnan Romances, The Black Tulip, Alexandre Dumas wrote some wonderful books! You're in for a treat clam.

Thanks for the encouragement! In return, I'll tell you that The Count of Monte Cristo is an entrancing read, even if the injustice in the storyline is frustrating.

And The Count of Monte Cristo.

Hmmm... must say a couple more things here. LOVE Alexandre Dumas and Count of Monte Cristo... but "should people read it? Not so sure. It has a lot of revenge and all based on a lucky, massive fortune. Also written as a huge serial for a newspaper (first) before being compiled into a book... ...

I'll start a book because I think I should but will continue only if I like it. Count of Monte Cristo made it. Wuthering Heights didn't.

... here with lots of interesting reads to explore. I'll be back to get more ideas! ETA I loved both Don Quixote and The Count of Monte Cristo when I read them several years ago. They are high on my "reread list" especially since I bought new translations of them a couple of years ago! I ...

... books in one year? Pshhh that's easy. I read Crime and Punishment, Don Quijote de la Mancha, Notre-Dame de Paris and Le comte de Monte-Cristo all last year. Easy shmeasy. And this is where I admit that I only read 10 books total last year and the other 6 were fairly short. ;)

Classics 1. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 2. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne 3. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 4. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace 5. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 6. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 7. Through ...

Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo! Great book, but it took a while. Now, what to read next... Lincoln, The Book Thief, one of the free books I downloaded from Amazon, or another classic? I have at least 15 samples on my Kindle. It could take me a week to make a decision! k4k

... we also have Treasure Island, Call of the Wild, and White Fang. Oh, yeah, we have The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo which my girls are begging me to read. --BJ Edited because I simply can't type things right the first time.

... enjoyed it. I have not read that many adventure books, but I think I will read more now. I am especially interested in The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, both of which my daughters recommend. I am working on my 4th book for the Dewey Decimal Challenge (who would have ...

... in then the touchstone will be activated. FYI - A couple other classics to suggest Picture of Dorian Gray, Count of Monte Cristo, Robinson Crusoe, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Peter Pan, and The Red Badge of Courage. these were on my possibles list ...

... author in then the touchstone will be activated. FYI - A couple other classics to suggest Picture of Dorian Gray,Count of Monte Cristo,Robinson Crusoe,Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,The Scarlet Pimpernel, Peter Pan, and The Red Badge of Courage. these were on my possibles list for ...

... which group is reading which book. I think I'd be most interested in trying The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, and The Count of Monte Cristo. Luckily, they are all spaced out. I had thought all the books mentioned were about to begin. I've never done a long/hard book with a book club ...

... thinking of reading Treasure Island for the adventure book. I have never read that before. I was going to maybe read The Count of Monte Cristo but since there might be a group read for that later, I will wait on it. I was wondering what constituted the next category, I think it is Quiet R ...

... I was hoping to spot your reading challenge thread. I now have it starred. :) Personally, I loved Don Quixote and love Le comte de monte-cristo (I still have to read volume 2) so I definitely recommend you read them both! Don Quixote takes a while to read because you can't read too much at ...

I am hoping to read The Count of Monte Cristo this summer. I have heard that it is a great book! :) --BJ

... totalitarian government?—unanswered. However, the ending seems to promise a sequel, which I will anxiously await. 4. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 6. A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass This is a ...

... 2. Play Me by Laura Ruby (YA, 2, #2) 3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (YA dystopian, 5, #2) 4. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (4.5, #2) 5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (YA, 2.5, #2) 6. A Mango-Shaped Space by Wen ...

... books. Several of them are rereads, so maybe it will help that I have already read them. I have just been wanting to read The Count of Monte Cristo for a long time, so I am interested in that. I like doing group reads to stay motivated, but often I am behind the group. I just follow the ...

... in February. Then I just heard that the 75 challenge has a group for Anna Karenina starting around April, plus one of The Count of Monte Cristo starting in June or July. All these wonderful long books! I am not sure that I can really read that many of them, but I never met a group read ...

Hey BJ! Yes, I am the one who mentioned reading The Count of Monte Cristo this summer. I will start a thread in May or June so that we can all talk about it. Of course you are more than welcome to join in - the more the merrier! I am looking forward to it, though my goal is to read Anna Karen ...

... this group read if we do that. Either way though, I'll probably end up skipping February to focus on reading volume 2 of Le comte de monte-cristo.

Hi, Cait! I thought I saw you mention somewhere on another thread that there would be a group read of The Count of Monte Cristo this summer. That book has been high up on my tbr for a while, so I would like to join in if I may. Where would that group read be? There are lots of Caits (Cates, Ka ...

Yay, another potential Count of Monte Cristo participant! I also see you have Dorian Gray on there... It's on my list to finish too, since I found it on my bookshelf a few weeks ago with a bookmark halfway through. o_O

Welcome! Quite a few people in the group are reading The Count of Monte Cristo this year, so we were thinking about starting it as a group read this summer. Please join if you are interested!

Beware: Once you start reading The Count of Monte Cristo you won't want to put it down. Deebee Have you read any other Zola? I am slowly making my way through the entire Rougom Macquart series.

deebee and others The Count of Monte Cristo is a masterpiece! I am sure you all will enjoy reading it. Excellent plot, excellent characters and very well written, despite the length, it is a very pleasurable read. Once you start reading it, I am sure you would need no external motivation :)

I would be in for The Count of Monte Cristo too - man, that book has been sitting on my shelf for years! I like second half of the year too, since I am planning on reading Anna Karenina in the first half.

I see you have The Count of Monte Cristo on your reading list! The unabridged version has been sitting on my shelf for many years now, mocking me... I'd like to say I'll read it this year, but I think I'd need some serious motivation. My kudos to you for such an ambitious reading list!

Hiya ! Maybe reading the abridged version of Count of Monte-cristo would be easier to tackle . Also I have a book list called 1001 Books For Every Mood which has a mixture of fics , classics & contemporary , and nonfics too . I found this booklist to be a more relatable to the average modern ...

I just finished Count of Monte Cristo, and I found it too long for its own good.

... reading guide. In fact, there are quite a few books on there I can't stand. I'm picking and choosing carefully! I chose Count of Monte Cristo because a friend had strongly recommended it, actually. I did try several highly recommended books from Book Lust, but I think my tastes differ ...

1. The Count of Monte Cristo (1001 List) Overall, I found the 1082 pages of the unabridged version somewhat of a slog, unfortunately. I could certainly appreciate why it's a classic, with intricate plotting, memorable characterizations, intimate knowledge of high society in Paris, and a deft ...

... deletions is to include only Dickens' best, I agree with this removal). 23. Lost Illusions, Honore Balzac, 1995 24. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas, 2003 25. Vanity Fair, William Thackeray, 1970's 26. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, 1960's, reread 2x 27. Wuthering Heigh ...

... list and enjoyed them all. I just read The Iliad last week - the Fitzgerald translation was a great read. I really like The Count of Monte Cristo and Watership Down and Pilgrim's Progress (a reread on my 2009 999 Challenge list). I look forward to watching your progress. And I may add ...

Hi desertgrandma! I am reading The Count of Monte Cristo, which I downloaded from the MobileRead catalog on my Kindle. I must say that this is probably the best "page turner" novel I have read in a very long time. I can't even express how good it is. I like the MobileRead catalog ...

... of Essential Writers published by Barnes & Noble. It's 1406 pages and contains three novels: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask. Dumas is one of the two writers whose works I plan to read for 2009 for my reading project. I haven't decide ...

... 3/09 Books from my TBR shelves 1. The Duchess – Amanda Foreman 2. The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien 3. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 4. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 5. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 6. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway 7. ...

... exactly fiction) Miguel de Cervantes : Don Quixote de la Mancha Victor Hugo : Notre-Dame de Paris Alexandre Dumas : Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

... your classics category! I love, love, love Jane Eyre, it was one of the few books I actually read in high school and The Count of Monte Cristo is wonderful. I'm going to try some more from Dumas this year in hopes that some of his other works are equally good. I also enjoyed The ...

I'm 400 pages into The Count of Monte Cristo, and apparently I'm in the "slow" middle section. I'm happy to be starting the year off with a book from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die List, since that is a primary goal of mine this year!

... Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Absolom, Absolom! by William Faulkner The Immoralist by André Gide The End ...

... each -- since mine are too beat up for gifts -- I gave two books as Christmas/New Year's gifts. Today I shipped out The Count of Monte Cristo to a friend in Austin. It'll take her a good while to read, since she's visually impaired and I didn't leave myself enough time to get a hold ...

... lights that work with the Kindle. Regarding electronic books in general, I enjoy them. Right now, I am reading The Count of Monte Cristo on my Kindle. The classics are all free and will work on both Kindle and Sony. It is a wonderful way to catch up on literature you may have ...

... Santa Thing. I will probably also start one of the really long books I intend to read in 2009- possibly War and Peace or The Count of Monte Cristo.

... Inferno and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and would like to read them completely. Other "big books" on my shelves include The Count of Monte Cristo, Jacinta and Fortunata, Auto-da-fe and The Man without Qualities. I've had Finnegan's Wake (odd that this needs to be mis-spelt with the ...

Next time just shoot me: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal

... 10-03-2009 2. Pride and Prejudice read 1-19-2009 3. Wuthering Heights read 9-31-2009 Left over from last year- 4. The Count of Monte Cristo read 8-16-2009 5. Divine Comedy 6. The Last Enchantment Didn't know I owned- 7. The Three Musketeers read 10-05-2009 8. Don Quioxte ...

The Best: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas In the Forest of Forgetting by Theodora Goss Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. Valente, ...

... White by Wilkie Collins 4. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 5. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 6. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 7. 8. 9.

... Reads: Literature group. January's book for Group Reads: Literature is pretty much a dead heat between Pere Goriot and The Count of Monte Cristo. I'm leaning towards the Balzac (never read him yet), but I could deal with a fun adventure story, so I won't cry if the Dumas wins. :) Either ...

... already read all the Lord of the Rings books, he loves Garth Nix and George Orwell. I think he would actually like Count of Monte Christo if I could talk him into reading it - which is often a challenge.

#3 I read The Count of Monte Cristo in middle school. And the request was for things he can keep through adulthood...

I think The Count of Monte Cristo is pretty heavy for an 11-year-old! Of course I would advocate an unabridged version. (And I suppose I did read War and Peace at thirteen...) I think Mary Norton's Borrowers series is worth keeping throughout life, even though it's written for a ...

His Dark Materials The Chronicles of Narnia A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels The Count of Monte Cristo

... you all mean about getting itchy feet with particularly long books - does depend a bit on the book (had _no_ problems with The Count of Monte Cristo, but that's probably because it's action from beginning to end), but doesn't seem to relate to how enjoyable it is. I think it helps if you've ...

... as one of the best works of literature ever, I still find myself going back to it again and again. Though the classic Count of Monte Cristo deserves an honorable mention as well :)

How about The Count of Monte Cristo or the young adult novels: Zach's Lie and Jack's Run by Roland Smith?

... Mr Murder by Dean Koontz Miss Ophelia by Mary Burnett Smith Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J K Rowling The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

All of these are great suggestions! I have White Fang and Call of the Wild from the library right now and I adore The Count of Monte Cristo.

I'd say White Fang, Journey to the Center of the World, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Count of Monte Cristo are my favorites.

... choice so far. Five of the books are on my TBR list. I can't decide, help! Suggestions welcomed... I'm leaning toward The Count of Monte Cristo for a real reading challenge.

... totaling 32 books. My categories are as follow: 1. 1001 Books to Read Before You Die--I'll be starting off with The Count of Monte Cristo 2. Books for Book Club--Beautiful Boy is our January pick 3. Books recommended by family or friends--I'll be starting off with 3 "must-reads" ...

With a tip of the cap to 78> Nickelini, I will reevaluate my priorities to vote for the following: The Sea Wolf The Count of Monte Cristo Moby-Dick

Today I received The Count of Monte Cristo.

... Invisible Man 7. Frankenstein (Read) 8. Dracula (Read) 9. Get Shorty (Read) 10. Dangerous Liasons (Read) 11. The Count of Monte Cristo 12. Brideshead Revisited (Read) Now, I just need to choose the 12 for my alternates list. What fun! :) --BJ

I'd like to go with: The Count of Monte Cristo Les Miserables The Leopard

... 5. The Mysterous Island 6. The Golden Compass √ 7. The Subtle Knife √ 8. The Amber Spyglass √ 9. The Count of Monte Cristo

These books get my 3 votes: The Count of Monte Cristo The Leopard The Moon and Sixpence

My votes are for: Moby Dick The Sea Wolf The Count of Monte Cristo. However, there are lots of wonderful books on the list! :) --BJ

The Forsyte Saga The Count of Monte Cristo Buddenbrooks

Pere Goriot Madame Bovary The Count of Monte Cristo

My three are: Madame Bovary Les Miserables The Count of Monte Cristo

... this one) Although I've already read them, for anyone with concerns, I do recommend: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas I've been on a French classic lit kick lately trying to read all the classics that I should have already read considering I ...

... wait a little longer on it. I'm planning to read War and Peace first, unless the Group Reads: Literature group picks The Count of Monte Cristo or Les Miserables as their next book, in which case, that book will be the first I read. But I do look forward to reading it at some point next ...

War and Peace really changed my literary experience. Its is not as exciting as say The Count of Monte Cristo or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn so It was difficult to stay engaged, but soon realized the immense genius of the character development and the intricacy of the character ...

Something French sounds great, Balzac and Dumas both appeal (and I have The Count of Monte Cristo on my bookshelf). Wasn't a big fan of Madame Bovary, though I wouldn't rule out another Flaubert. I'd take a crack at the Forsythe Saga too.

I'm definitely up for something French, and would like to throw my support behind The Count of Monte Cristo, Madame Bovary, and Les Miserables, since I was hoping to read them all next year anyway.

I think The Little Prince is just too short yes. Plus, I've already read it. :) Although, I've also already read The Count of Monte-Cristo and Les Miserables. I'm waiting to go home for xmas to see what French novels I can recommend. I can't decide if I want to go with Balzac, Zola, Gu ...

>13...that's funny, Jean Valjean's "evil" brother, The Count of Monte Cristo is staring down at me. I'd have to give him my vote so he'll get released from the stacks.

I'm in the mood for French... Madame Bovary by Flaubert Pere Goriot by Balzac Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas Les Misérables by Hugo

... and Russian literature... so in 2009 I think I'll venture towards French literature like Madame Bovary, Pere Goriot, Count of Monte Cristo, and Les Misérables. Please help with suggestions of more French novels to put on my Christmas list.

From PiyushChourasia's library I choose The Count of Mont Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. I actually own the book but have never read it.

... Apocalipstick, Lemon Meringue Pie Murder, The Anastasia Syndrome, All Through the Night. One Foot in Heaven, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Notebook. I still have another bag of books but I'll go through them next week. Best thing about the whole thing is that I only have to ...

... from each set of eight. Victorian (1-8) Far From the Madding Crowd (9-16) Jane Eyre French (1-8) Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (9-16) À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs Philosophy (1-8) Letters from a Stoic (9-16) Poetics Nobel Laureates (1-8) ...

I've read The Count of Monte Cristo, but I've never read Ender's Game.

I've read Les Miserables, but not The Count of Monte Cristo. P.S. Correct spelling, Polly. P.P.S. I've read Les Miserables in English, not in French; however, I do want to get the French edition of the book whenever I go to France.

Morphy, I have to agree that The Count of Monte Cristo is indeed a fantastic read, one far too readily overlooked. In fact, I only read it after I had watched the Richard Chamberlain version on TV (also featured Louis Jordan, who was wonderful in it). But I heartily recommend it alongside you! ...

I've been reading classics lately for enjoyment and it makes all the difference. My favorite so far is The Count of Monte Cristo but this year I've also read and enjoyed Pride and Prejudice, The Old Man and the Sea, Slaughter-house Five, Alas, Babylon and The Catcher in the Rye. I also ...

I've been reading classics lately for enjoyment and it makes all the difference. My favorite so far is The Count of Monte Cristo but this year I've also read and enjoyed Pride and Prejudice, The Old Man and the Sea, Slaughter-house Five, Alas, Babylon and The Catcher in the Rye. I also ...

... D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 2. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3. Dracula by Bram Stoker 4. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 5. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 6. The Italian by Ann Radcliffe 7. 8. 9.

33> "Adventure, danger and romance are my constant companions..." In that case, I must nudge you towards The Count of Monte Cristo. Emma and Wuthering Heights get thumbs down from me because, no matter how brilliantly they are written, they both have main characters that I found thoroughly ...

IX. STARTED AND DISCARDED 1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 2. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 3. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 4. The Fourth Hand by John Irving 5. The King Must Die by Mary Renault 6. Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh 7. Policing Cinema by Lee ...

... (I freely admit that I was a geek and mythology nut.) Unassigned - Frank Herbert's Dune novels and Lazarus Effect, and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Again, I liked epic novels and tales of intellect and bravery. My least favorite books in high school: The Scarlet Letter ...

November 10th is the day I officially started Le comte de Monte-Cristo. At just a little shorter than Les Miserables I'm curious to see how long it will take. Don Quixote took about 3 months to read but the count is proving to be a quicker and easier read.

Reading Le comte de monte-cristo by Dumas. :)

Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo and Pride and Prejudice for the millionth time. Currently reading Mysteries of Udolpho and then I'm moving onto The Hunchback of Notre-dame.

... read Jane Eyre and several of the Austens more than once, but the book I'm going to nudge, also read several times, is The Count of Monte Cristo.

I will have to nudge ALL of Jane Austen, The Age of Innocence, and The Count of Monte Cristo, one of my favourite books of all time.

... Side The Jungle The Idiot - ** Crime and Punishment - ** The Hunchback of Notre Dame Jude the Obscure The Count of Monte Cristo - * Thanks in advance, - M1001

Chunksters 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

... my list of reads is to read a quick short book Soleil Couchant by Osamu Dazai as a break and then starting the major epic Le compte de Monte Cristo. I will most likely have to read a short book again between those two volumes so that should be my 10 books. Now a week break from reading so ...

On my actual bookshelves, the one that's been there the longest unread is probably The Count Of Monte Cristo. I read the first chapter about 5 years and haven't managed to make it back since. I do also still have a book somewhere at my parents' house with a bookmark in it. When I was 10, I read 23 ...

... God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, -- 'Wait and hope'." -- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Best. Quote. Ever. I love that he closes the book with those lines. I'm a such a closet Romantic.

... of his courage, duty to country, and self-sacrifice can deny that he would make a great president.” Edmond Dantes from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, received 9 percent of the votes. Though wrongly accused and locked for years in a prison, Dantes’ strength of character ...

I already have my copy of Le Compte de Monte-Cristo (my copy is in French) so I'm ready in case that becomes a group read. Either way, I'll be reading, group read or not. Otherwise, I go back to my original suggestion of Doctor Zhivago if you guys are willing to Russian again. Recommendat ...

The Count of Monte Cristo has my vote once again.

... and Dr. Zhivago. A few from past votes that I wouldn't mind revisiting are Wives and Daughters, Vanity Fair, and The Count of Monte Cristo. Having already read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (several times) and The Trial, I'm not so exited about them. Touchstones ...

... and Dr. Zhivago. A few from past votes that I wouldn't mind revisiting are Wives and Daughters, Vanity Fair, and The Count of Monte Cristo. Having already read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (several times) and The Trial, I'm not so exited about them. Touchstones ...

I have Don Quixote, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Illiad on my shelves, so I'd vote for any of those. Can I vote against Tess of the D'Urbervilles?? I had to read it at school, and loathed it beyond measure!

... of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

#106 sydamy Looks like you made a great haul--Count of Monte Cristo is a favorite of mine which I read several years ago--I recently bought an unabridged version because i plan to reread it next year. I love Sherlock Holmes have read all of them and reread them frequently. I also enjoy M. ...

... sized bag. There were people there with those big green garbage bags! filled, for only five dollars. I came away with: Count of Monte Cristo Complete Sherlock Holmes Moll Flanders Ethan Frome Strip Jack by Ian Rankin lost light by Michael Connelly In a Strange City ...

... by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 31. Pirate's Price by Darlene Marshall 32. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 33. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 34. Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning 35. Devoted by Alice Borchardt 36. Ride the Wind by Lucia St C ...

... reprinted it. It is an historical novel about William the Conqueror and supposedly quite accurate. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) A nice Modern Library hardcover copy that they were running a promotion on for for 30% off. I read it many years ago but in an ...

> 85 Jenson AKA DL - The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my all time favorite classics, along with The Count of Monte Cristo and basically everything written by Alexandre Dumas. I hope you enjoy it! I have finished When we were Romans and felt a real connection with the characters. I am ...

Looking at your library it appears you may not have read The Count of Monte Cristo and I think that would be a great classic to read right about now. Of course, if you have read it, perhaps a review?

By night I am in 19th century, post-revolutionary France Count of Monte Cristo and loving it. The atmosphere in Paris is plush, the characters are elegant and the hero so sinster and sexy, I think I will curl up in bed forever! But by day, while I appear to be driving a little Renault around ...

... Paradise Lost by John Milton 18. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer 19. The Odyssy by Homer 20. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexande Dumas

... rule that the book had to have been written before 1923. It makes things more challenging. Return of the Native The Count of Monte Cristo Jane Eyre Persuasion Crime and Punishment Middlemarch Cymbeline Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the poetry of Alf ...

... as I am having an Alexandre Dumas marathon of sorts (I'm reading the five d'Artagnan romances, then finishing up with The Count of Monte Cristo).

... I get back to it! I know I should be enjoying it more--but I just can't get into it--about 1/3 the way through! I loved The Count of Monte Cristo and thought thi one would be as good. #37 GeorgiaDawn I found Griffin and Sabine compelling reading . Are you going to read all three ...

I told my parents to find me our copy of The Count of Monte Cristo so I would love to read it. So many other books refer to it that I would love to know exactly what it is they're referring to. :) But, I refuse to read it in English (I'm French) so hopefully the French copy will show up soon! ...

I'm new to LT and would love to join in on a group read. Don Quixote, Crime and Punishment,or The Count of Monte Cristo

Some suggestions: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Or Vanity Fair, Dr. Zhivago, The Count of Monte Cristo. And maybe Don Quioxte. Personally, I struggled a little with Moby Dick. But I see that geneg is offering cetology lessons, it could be a interesting choice ...?! :)

Sorry, I was just testing the touchstones. Please ignore The Count of Monte Cristo.

Congrats on figuring out the touchstone thing. But what does The Count of Monte Cristo mean? Are you just testing touchstones, or are you saying that you've read Fury and are throwing the the Count into the game? Can you please clarify?

the count of monte cristo Hey it works! Thank you Booksloth! :-) A hyperlink is pretty much anything you click on on a webpage which sends you to another webpage. You know what a hypelink is, you just didn't know that you know it. :-) I guess most people just call them links nowadays. ...

Since I just bought The Count of Monte Cristo, I'll second Talbin's nomination.

... and Dr. Zhivago. A few from past votes that I wouldn't mind revisiting are Wives and Daughters, Vanity Fair, and The Count of Monte Cristo.

... Crime and Punishment 4. Tess of the D'urbervilles 5. Jude the Obscure 6. Jane Eyre 7. Wuthering Heights 8. The Count of Monte Cristo 9. My Antonia 10. Vanity Fair Not in any particular order (except numbers 1 and 2).

No particular order: Tess of the D'Urbervilles Alice's Adventures in Wonderland et seq. Jane Eyre The Count of Monte Cristo Little Women A Little Princess A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Sherlock Holmes stuff Romeo and Juliet Othello

51. Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer A modern take on The Count of Monte Cristo. Enjoyable, but not as good as his earlier books. 52. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters A great book with lots of plot twists. 53. The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth Von Arnim Re-read. ...

I posted my list and completely forgot one of my favorite books of all time, Le Comte de Monte Cristo.

... Years After, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask), and I'll conclude with The Count of Monte Cristo. So today, it's the Musketeers.

First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The River King by Alice Hoffman Guenevere Queen of the Summer Country by Rosalind Mills

... about her experiences growing up in a polygamous family of the FLDS sect. I am thinking of a long novel after that. Count of Monte Cristo? Something else? Who knows? I always seem to pick my books at the last minute. Hope you get well soon, k4k

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas – 894 pgs. 14,562 pgs. / 72.81 200-page books An absolutely fantastic book. It's the book that I've spent the longest reading (a week longer than Les Misérables, for instance), but it was well worth it.

... States" (the next one on the list). 4. Inappropriate subjects or sub-subjects. I have no problem with The Count of Monte Cristo being classified under "French fiction"; I do have one with it being classified under "French fiction › Textbooks for foreign speakers". S ...

I recently heard about the re-translation of The Count Of Monte Cristo completed by Robin Buss in 1996, 150 years after it was first translated into English, and I'm keen to read this recent translation which I've seen described as "more accessible to modern readers" - I believe it also ...

... most loved childhood books: 1895 Treasure Island; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer; Robinson Crusoe; The Count of Monte Cristo; Otto of the Silver Hand. In addition, O'Brien names the following as favorite authors: Scott, Thackeray, Poe, Hawthorne, Ruskin, Emerson, Car ...

... nd The Complete Jane Austen I had to tear myself away from lovely copies of Here at the New Yorker Fierce Pajamas The Count of Monte Cristo but we have to eat around here!

I just listed an abridged version of the Count of Monte Cristo. I ordered this a long time ago thinking it was unabridged and cds. It has never been opened. I am on vacation but I have this one with me right now. http://www.bookmooch.com/m/detail/962634539X

I was out dancing with a group of friends and a good friend came over and yelled in my ear "I think I need to read the conte of monte christo", it was such an odd and funny thing to say that I had to find him a copy

... good things about the Song of Ice and Fire books, but I haven't read them myself yet. My current voluminous read is The Count of Monte Cristo; my edition clocks in at 894 pages, though if the print were of easily-readable size (what is this eight- or nine-point-font? AUGH) and the book ...

... ea 5. Invisible Man 6. Beloved (Read) 7. Frankenstein 8. Dracula 9. Get Shorty 10. Dangerous Liasons 11. The Count of Monte Cristo 12. Brideshead Revisited I am trying to decide if I like my original list or my alternate list better. I will start off with my original ...

... is Alexandre Dumas. The Three Musketeers, my first "adult" book, is always a fun, quick read. I'd love to re-read The Count of Monte Cristo more often, but the 1000+ page count is a bit daunting for someone with as large a TBR list as mine.

... ake. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. If you've seen or heard of the miniseries, read the book, it's much better. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Huge and a classic. Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery. And lastly here are two ...

... was ten I read The Three Musketeers and was intrigued by this world of "adult books". Later I tore through the 1000+ page The Count of Monte Cristo and never looked back. I am inherently suspicious of anything published within the last fifty years. Also something of a book snob. Good job, Alex. ...

... characters spend lots of time going to parties and dinners. Any of Alexandre Dumas books - The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Christo etc. are long and fun, and the same characters keep popping up.

... the split could be Group Reads - Literature (Classic) and Group Reads - Literature (Modern). That way both The Count of Monte Cristo and Midnight's Children can be enjoyed by those who would like a group read. (For the fans of Bleak House perhaps that can be pre-chosen as ...

... red pins in Europe. Most of them are green (Rushdie). I see from the poll that it seems to be a very close race between The Count of Monte Cristo and Midnight's Children. Remember Madame Bovary and The Age of Innocence? EXCITING !! /:-O

... Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain Tristam Shandy - Laurence Sterne The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

... two are wonderful choices as well. I have read Midnight"s Children long ago and it is worth another read. But somehow The Count of Monte Cristo slipped past me and so I voted for it. Thanks for setting this up!

I'm in the midst of The Count of Monte Cristo and about to start Source of Magic. Monte Cristo is fantastic; thus far, my only complaint is that the text in my edition is too small to read with tired eyes at night. Everything is so richly described and the dialogue is so realistic that it's ...

... two years. (As far as I know, there is no dramatization of Midnight's Children, but there are several movie versions of The Count of Monte Cristo, which a lot of us have probably seen.) 7) Because of the powerful recommendations of these reviewers: “Extraordinary . . . one of the most ...

... ished: Sense and Sensibility The Age of Innocence Amsterdam Next up: Rebecca The World According to Garp The Count of Monte Cristo

Looks like a run-off between Bleak House, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Midnight's Children. Will someone more technologically astute set up the poll?

... math. Even I could volunteer for that job! I changed my vote .... Is that OK? I can only find the abridged addition of The Count of Monte Cristo on my island, and the Hawaii Library System also only has the abridged version too. And ... I understand that the two full English translations ...

... do you mean 5%?) or more). I've got copies of Midnight's Children (in Norwegian), Bleak House (in English) and The Count of Monte Cristo (in Norwegian) and I haven't read any of them yet. I imagine it'll be a great read whatever book is chosen. I voted for Don Quixote, but it ...

... writing is decent, but it is really his story telling skills that impress me most. Novels like The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo flew by for me, despite that fact that each one is six to seven hundred pages long. -- M1001

I will not read The Count of Monte Cristo for the simple reason that I have read it at least four times already. Yes, it is one of my favourite books!

Does it make any sense to have a "poll-off" between Bleak House and The Count of Monte Cristo since they are out ahead as well as neck-in-neck? Or would that be one too many polls?

Oh, I adored it! There's not much I can say that wouldn't quickly descend into gushing hyperbole, but The Count of Monte Cristo is definitely one of the best books I've read this year.

Thanks - shall give it a go next (before the expiry date runs out!) How about The Count Of Monte Cristo? I think it's probably one of my favourite books, just for the sheer page-turner-ness of it!

35. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 36. Andorra by Peter Cameron

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... Drum by Gunter Grass The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Independent People by Haldor Laxness

... House - 8 Madame Bovary - 7 Midnight's Children - 5 The Tin Drum - 5 Magic Mountain - 4 Vanity Fair - 4 The Count of Monte Cristo - 4 Independent People - 4 Les Miserables - 3 The Invisible Man - 3 The Cairo Trilogy - 3 Dead Souls - 2 Howard's End - 2 The B ...

I wouldn't mind Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Vanity Fair or The Count of Monte Cristo. I have them all sitting on my shelf just waiting for a reason to be read.

... another "easier to read," then finish that and so on. I am with #49 kticesk8s for the next book, Madame Bovary or Count of Monte Cristo

Madame Bovary or Count of Monte Cristo

... reasons. I haven't looked to see whether my Pepys is expurgated. I read that the Penguin edition, then new, of The Count of Monte Cristo was by far superior to its predecessors, and went to some effort to get it (it is now on the shelves of the big box booksellers). I have a ...

Okay, I'm also cool with The Idiot, and I'll also say The Count of Monte Cristo, just to add more to the mix (like we need it). I read Les Miserables a long time ago, but I wouldn't mind joining in the discussions on that one.

... by Beatrix Potter The Story of Dr Dolittle by Hugh Lofting The Princess and the Pauper by Mark Twain The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

... of "over-read" last quarter narrowing my selection to five is quite a challenge... so I'll cheat a bit ;) Best of: 1. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas 2t. Barchester Towers by Trollope 2t. Humboldt's Gift by Bellow 4. A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov 5. The Tenant of Wildfell Ha ...

... that way. Exceptions come when, like now, I'm reading a particularly dense book (the 900-page, 9-pt.-font, unabridged Count of Monte Cristo, currently) and therefore can't read it at night because everything gets blurred together, so I have a considerably lighter book (A Spell for Chameleo ...

... Perez-Reverte's other books. Now I have an over whelming urge to rush out and by The Three Musketeers and the Count of MonteCristo.... But no more books until I have seriously dented the 'to be read' pile next to my bed.

... re: alynnk I'm afraid I do. It seems to affect their translations a bit (and frankly, as much as I like the unabridged Count of Monte Cristo there are times when it's obvious that Dumas is being paid by the word!). It's really not hidden though, I've found. I do have a good number of of ...

... - Salman Rushdie = 2 Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell - 2 Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann = 2 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas = 2 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy = 2 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo = 3 The Brothers Karamozov - Fyo ...

Count of Monte Cristo is on my list of want to reads, as is Jane Austen , or how about Frankenstein, or Dickens? Madam Bovary seems to keep popping up.

My votes are for (most are listed above already): Wuthering Heights Madame Bovary Les Miserables Count of Monte Cristo

... the copyright notice - I've had this problem before. Austen is pretty safe (I got Northanger Abbey from them) but their Count of Monte Cristo is abridged.

I'll take a stab at it.........The Count of Monte Cristo ?

The Count of Monte Cristo ***** by Alexandre Dumas 04/17/08 Spectacular

I'm late in starting this topic, mostly because I got distracted around the start of the year and my list was pathetic for the first two and a half months. I've picked up again and remembered that, hey, I never posted it! So, here I am. :) It's my first time challenging myself to read a certain ...

... et le Noir by Stendhal ***** 4. Quatrevingt-treize by Victor Hugo **** 5. Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost *** 6. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père ***** 7. L’Étranger by Albert Camus ***** 8. Germinal by Émile Zola **** Double {complete} 9. Notr ...

... at home, at least!). Stephen King's The Stand (the 'expanded' version) is nearly 1000 itself. More or less like Dumas' The Count of Montecristo. In fact, I don't mind if a book is veeeeery long! :)

... at home, at least!). Stephen King's The Stand (the 'expanded' version) is nearly 1000 itself. More or less like Dumas' The Count of Montecristo. In fact, I don't mind if a book is veeeeery long! :)

... by Leo Tolstoy 6. The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 7. A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens 8. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Canadian Authors category 1. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 2. World of wonders by Robertson Dav ...

... Rebel the Tibetan Book of the Dead: the First Complete Translation the Nicomachean Ethics the Three Musketeers the Count of Monte Christo the Man in the Iron Mask a People's History of the United States: 1492-PRESENT Temeraire: in the Service of the King the Earthsea Trilog ...

... e 822 Much Ado About Nothing 823 The Annotated Pride and Prejudice 843 The Count of Monte Cristo (link) 853 The Name of the Rose

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester also goes with The Count of Monte Cristo, as does Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra but I prefer to keep Hugo and Dumas together.

... than some of the 600-pagers we see. Some good short ones include Bester's The Stars My Destination (based partly on The Count of Monte Cristo), Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness (really fascinating gender roles theme here). I think it's ...

Whenever I think of Paris in literature, I remember the the great novels of the 19th century. The Count of Monte Cristo takes place in several cities, but spends a good third of the novel in Paris itself. The Three Muskeeteers is of course more removed historically. I think though as ...

I'm trying what the 'TJed' book says to do for my kids... read the classics myself. I just finished The Count of Monte Christo. It is a good book, but seemed to be more 'fun' reading than I anticipated. I was surprised how easy it was to read. I guess I expect a 'classic' to be a challenging ...

... by Anne Bronte 13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 14. Vanity Fair by William Makepiece Thackeray 15. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 16. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 17. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Out of those, ...

... up the latest Adam Roberts' novel Land of the Headless which seems a weird cross between The Scarlet Letter and The Count of Monte Cristo - at least that's what comes to mind in the early part of the book. It's no spoiler to tell you that a man is beheaded for adultery, but in these ...

... by Peter Weiss The Devil in the White City : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes

... his essay "My Affair with Science Fiction," where he says: "For some time I'd been toying with the notion of using the Count of Monte Cristo pattern for a story. The reason is simple; I'd always preferred the antihero, and I'd always found high drama in compulsive types." I agree that TS ...

... she does have her own code to set things right. She's very complex and I just enjoy her. Edmond Dantes (the Count) from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. He is bent on avenging himself on the ones who ruined his life but learns that it does not satisfy and ultimately makes ...

... Deceived by Philip Larkin The Great Divide by T Davis Bunn A La Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas - just about?

... are:(mostly these are good for teenage girls) Jane Austen's books Tamora Pierce books Cynthis Voigt books The Count of Monte Cristo (my favorite!!) I like historical fiction/ fantasy- any recommendations?

Definitely The Count of Monte Cristo- my favorite book actually!!! And any others by Dumas! All fun and intriguing- great for planes rides!!!

... Then Junjo Romantica may be too much for you but Shout Out Loud should be okay. Hmm, in the best enemies vein, I'd say Count Cain, but the enemies don't have enough screen time together. For best artwork, it depends on what you're preferences in art are. I like CLAMPs fashion designs, ...

... and professor, has made some attempts at writing science fiction. He wrote a reasonably good science fiction retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo a few years back.

Cool Hand Luke - Donn Pearce The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption - S. King The Green Mile - S. King Von Ryan's Express - David Westheimer Touchstones taking forever to load. The hell with it.

... Book, Kidnapped, The Red Badge of Courage, The Prince and the Pauper, Robinson Crusoe, David Copperfield, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty etc., etc. (He has since read originals of at least a few of these.) I realize that the series isn't ...

... Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of Four Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses R ...

... Alexandre Dumas The Sexual Life of Catherine M by Catherine Millet Beneath the Pyramid by Christian Jacq The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Has anyone else read any of these, or do you have any other author ...

... until I worked in a bookstore and someone told me. lol, I'm slow. OK, so, today, I purchased the following: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest All Aunt Hagar's Children ...

... two Tom Clancy for my son, one book for a friend and Blue Shoes and Happiness for myself. Oh, and a hardcover of The Count of Monte Cristo, unabridged. It's for my daughter. SO big and heavy. I have a two volume version which is leather covered and fits nicely to the palm. Old, very ...

... boxed hardcover reprint of the original LOTR trilogy and run my eyes over all the Pratchets. I bought a hardcover of The Count of Monte Cristo, but later discovered it was an abridged edition. The thickness fooled me, so I'll take that back. However, I did buy a Tom Clancy book for my ...

One more, for classic thrillers, you can't go wrong with the works of Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers The Count of Monte Cristo The Man in the Iron Mask

... today telling me there's a package to pick up at the depot that wouldn't fit through my letterbox. I can only assume it's The Count of Monte Cristo - at almost 900 pages it was NEVER going to get through my tiny letterbox! I'm hoping my lovely hubby will be able to pick it up tomorrow, ...

I ordered Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas from GreenMetropolis.com this afternoon. Both will be included in my Classics Challenge and the latter will also count towards my Chunk Challenge (being 896 pages long!). I'm looking forward to ...

More ideas for you Count of Monte Christo and of course Neal Stephenson's latest offerings in the Baroque cycle. And I'm sure you are all eagerly awaiting Deathly Hallows which I suspect might be my challenge for the year, along with its oversized precursors. I'm not generally ...

... Collins - Woman in White (1860) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet (1887) Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo (1846) Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (1895) Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet ...

The Count of Monte Cristo is great - highly recommended. If you haven't read it before, an abridged version is the way to go, as the unbridged version, while good, can be a little long winded. I do love The Princess Bride on a cloudy day, which, as bluesalamanders notes, is as good as the ...

meta87, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favourite books. I have read it at least four times and find myself going back to it periodically.

17. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Pere This book was great! I'm glad I took the time to read it. Unabridged it is quite long, but I never felt it was dragging on. It is a page turner to the end.

... di Gian Burrasca (sorry, I don't think it was ever translated into English), Lessico Famigliare by Natalia Ginzburg, The Count of Monte Cristo, all of the books belonging to a series I collect (Biblioteca dei miei ragazzi, in Italian), which date from the 20s on and used to belong to my ...

... stolen a book, but I had one stolen for me that I'd long coveted. My high school library had a copy of an unabridged Count of Monte Cristo. I checked that book out religiously during my tenure, and I often thought of smuggling it out, especially as I worked in the library. I checked the ...

... series "Firefly" was envisioned to be SF in a (faux) Western setting with Chinese-speaking Caucasoid heroes. Speaking of The Count of Monte Cristo, has anyone seen the anime series "Gankutsuou"? It may as well be the closest one can get to a big-screen translation of The Stars My Destination ...

... I am splitting my attention between a couple of books, as so often happens. They are: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas I was also reading, quite eagerly, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, but I left it behind at a cafe, and it was ...

I've been wanting to try Dumas. I was going to start with The Count of Monte Cristo but my brother suggested I get my feet wet with The Three Musketeers first. Other big books I'd like to get to this year are Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Mists of Avalon; both have been ...

... lindsacl You'll finish Les Miserables in no time once you are into it, it is a real page turner to match the like of Count of Monte Cristo. Racy, gritty and compelling, highly recommended! (as is Monte Cristo for another big French one.)

... you darrow. I read the Gollancz edition a couple of years ago and loved it. You may know this but it is loosely based on The Count of Monte Cristo. There's such an energy to it all the way through, personified by Gully Foyle and his blind lust for revenge. I think it's cited as a ...

#8.9,10 I third the opinion about the Count of Monte Cristo. It may look daunting on the shelf but it is a fantastic read. Far exceeds any of the dramatic presentations of it, including the Depardieu French mini-series. Does this anyone else think the title of this thread is slightly morbid? ...

_Zoe_, I second your Proust and Dumas wishes. I have an unabridged copy of The Count of Monte Cristo on my shelf that has been taunting me for years!

... unabridged version is beautiful, and so is one of Hugo's other books, Ninety-Three, (Quatre-Vingt Treize). and Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, unabriged.

... Women, Jane Eyre, Doctor Zhivago, The Handmaid's Tale and...possiblyThe Idea of Perfection. It's possible The Count of Monte Cristo figures in there also, around the same era as Zhivago. The first four are, of course, readily recognizable as classics but the fifth is lesser ...

... those books at the time they were published found them as much of a challenge? Is it cultural? As I said before, I loved The Count of Monte Cristo. I read it online and therefore really had no idea that it is considered a really long read. I breezed through that puppy. (As an aside, I won't ...

... books that I enjoy, that have emotional depth and that make me ponder something about life." I love Lackey. I also love The Count of Monte Cristo. I dislike Grisham and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. >with their 'I read for enjoyment' viewpoint that excludes 'good' books, with ...

Count of Monte Cristo - it's hard, impossible?, to cut a 1000 page novel down to a 100 minute film. There was a French mini-series starring Gerald Depardieu which followed the novel relatively faithfully until it fell apart at the end by ignoring the original ending, and going for the cliched ...

Count of Monte Cristo is so far my favorite. Also liked; Jane Eyre The House of the Seven Gables Anna Karenina I have read a bunch of classics lately, and there are a bunch of others I liked, these four are my favorites. Oh, just remembered, I enjoyed Two years Before the Mast ...

... Think that will be next on my list by him. Other French classics like Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Les Miserables and Count of Monte Cristo are also up there on my list of all-time favourites. Depressing squalor, revenge and wonderful, 18/19th Century morality (see Zola and Laclos for that! ...

I asked for the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. No luck though.

... to hide so I wouldn't read it before my deadlined books. Over Christmas break I'm hoping to finally make serious headway in Count of Monte Cristo. My best friend lent me The Kingmaker and told me I'd love it, so maybe that'll get thrown in as well.

... example, yes, The Da Vinci Code is set in France but I wouldn't recommend it for that country. However, I WOULD recommend The Count of Monte Cristo. In Count you get a sense of "place" and of the history of the area. In Code, it is simply the setting.

... used bookstores and the like, so I never know about this year's books. Here is a list of my favorites read this year. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Locked Rooms by Laurie King Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Gesundheit! by Patch Adams Hogfather by Te ...

My favorite was The Count of Monte Cristo, which I had to read in the 9th grade. I still have my copy (and it's been YEARS). (Four years after I read it, my brother had to read it. When he had my book, he drew a cartoon at the bottom of the pages so that when you flipped the pages, a man was ...

Just finished a bunch of research books on Iran for Model UN. Still strolling through The Count of Monte Cristo every now and then. Starting Chocolat by Joanne Harris for something different than what I usually read. Looking to read both of Barack Obama's books (Dreams of my Fathe ...

... modern Japanese woman Tortilla Curtain Boyle - should be required reading in Southern California where I live. The Count of Monte Cristo Read in French in High School. Of Human Bondage Maugham - Good. Babel 17 Samuel Delaney - Scifi, a rarity on this type of list ...

... would leave the reader to figure it out on their own. I'm not starting anything else, I'm going to devote more time to The Count of Monte Cristo seeing as I'm pretty determined to finish it before the year is through. And I'll be reading random books on Iran today for my Model UN paper that' ...

... doing it. The top ten "on deck" are: American Gods (Gaiman) Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Finlay) The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) The Tao of Pooh (Hoff) Puppy Preschool (Ross) How to Housebreak Your Dog in 7 Days I am the Messenger (Zusak) The Art of Rais ...

The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas (half done) American Gods by Neil Gaiman (4 chapters in) The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff (half done)

... them again and I'm having a great time. I've read The Good Earth, To Kill a Mockingbird and am currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo.

... and I hear this is very good. It's a first novel, so I'm a bit leery, but we'll see. And regarding the discussion on The Count of Monte Cristo--unabridged or nothing! What a fantastic book! I know it's long, but it rockets along. It's in my all-time top 10.

morphidae (#84): I'm also currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged); are you abridged or unabridged? (and a side note: I love Janet Evanovich for something light in between heavy stuff)

Just finished Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich and am currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas and Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay.

LouisBranning: Maybe I enjoyed The Boy Detective Fails so much because I was (am still) reading The Fountainhead and The Count of Monte Cristo at the same time, so it was nice to take a break and read a simple story. Other than that, I'm 100 pages away from finishing The Tenth Circle by ...

I'm reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas. (Edited because it was my first touchstone and I had to figure out how to make it work)

... if I enjoyed it because I'm at the right point in my life. Has anyone else read it? I'm still reading, when I have time, The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, my favorite. I'm only around page 250, though. I'm starting The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand for a national essay contest, and The ...

... Men by Cormac McCarthy. Thoroughly depressing and unpleasant. Not bad, mind you, but I feel like I need a shower. The Count of Monte Cristo--one of my favorites! Enjoy. I listened to Great Expectations about a year ago, read by Frederick Davidson. I wasn't terribly fond of his ...

200 pages into the 1500 page unabridged The Count of Monte Cristo by my all time favorite, Alexandre Dumas Meanwhile I'm lightly reading The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno, who has impressed me with his ability to completely switch voices in his novels. The voice that tells Hairstyl ...

... my copying it here, but I think it needs repeating: gavroche wrote: "Alexandre Dumas did not write The Count of Monte Cristo Three Musketeers or the The Man with the Iron Mask "That was Alexandre Dumas, pere Or any language variation on 'Father'. "Alexan ...

... period. My favorite book, and in my opinion possibly the best ever written, is Les Miserables by Hugo, with The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas in second. Also Hugo's The Toilers of the sea would fall between the first two mentioned. I am also a sucker for historical ...

... ago. EP must have updated the list becuase there are now 20 more books avaiable for the collection. I always thought that the count of monte cristo should be on there. It is included in the new collection. I have already recieved the sound and the fury, the hunchback of notre dame, the ...

From Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (first published on August 28 1844): "There it is, then," said Monte Cristo, as he stepped out of the carriage. They both went into the house; the drawing-room was lighted up -- they went in there. "You will make tea for us, Baptistin," said the ...

I am currently moving and almost all of my unread books are packed. So I am re-reading The Count of Monte Cristo again. It is just as good the second time around as it was the first.

... to attract the attention of those looking at "Your Books" under Talk. However: Alexandre Dumas did not write The Count of Monte Cristo Three Musketeers or the The Man with the Iron Mask That was Alexandre Dumas, pere Or any language variation on 'Father'. Alexand ...