[schu]

The Count of Monte Cristo is a classic, long, but a wonderful book. Dumas could really tell a story.

[JenB]

"Monte Cristo" is my favorite book of Dumas' works. I liked everything but the ending - I felt so sorry for Mercedes, I wanted her to have a happy ending too.

[finnigan2]

" Dumas could really tell a story."

"Here we are in the Tuileries,' said first consul Bonaparte to his first secretary Bourrienne, as they entered the palace where Louis XVI made his penultimate residence between Versaille and the scaffold. 'We must make certain that we stay here.'"

- Given that the above is supposedly the first sentence from this "lost masterpiece", you've got to be kidding, right? It's the closest thing to, "It was a dark and stormy night" that I've ever read.

[mylife]

The Count of Monte Cristo was fabulous.

The latest film version is one of my favorite films