Book hangover, day four

[mahogany]

I picked up the Count of Monte Cristo from the library a few days ago. Not because I had a burning desire to read it, but because it seemed to me that everyone in the world had read it except for me.

Wow! Has it ever sucked me in. Every day for the last four days, I've woken up bleary eyed because I've stayed awake reading too long.

It's exactly up my alley. Pure entertainment. As to whether it has any literary merit, I have no clue, but dang is it ever compelling.

Comments

[mahogany.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish my French were still at a level where I could actually enjoy books like this in their original language. I think stuff always gets lost in the translation - no matter how good that translation happens to be.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

I admit that I read them in English. Dumas is hard enough to follow in my first language. I started to read "Trois Mosquetaires" in French but lost the copy somewhere.