@Amiable Just started Volume 2! Luckily I am enjoying it.
Just wondering, can we change our books if we read a book that fulfils a category before we get to the planned one? #chunksterchallenge2023
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Count of Monte Cristo | 
@Amiable Just started Volume 2! Luckily I am enjoying it.
Just wondering, can we change our books if we read a book that fulfils a category before we get to the planned one? #chunksterchallenge2023
Spending the weekend in bed with some serious sinus issues π€§, but using the time to start my #superchunkster read!
#ChunksterChallenge2023
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pickThe Count of Monte Cristo is my all time favourite. I love it so much I even have a tatoo. I read it back in high school and I still remember hoe much I loved everything about this book, especially the count's perfect revenge plan. π€π€π€
#readtheclassics
@Cinfhen #weeklyforecast
The Count will be staying there for some time!
Continue:
Count of Monte Cristo
The Postcript Murders
Finish:
American Sherlock
Jamaica Inn
Start:
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
I‘m so glad I read these classics. They were all amazing. But the Count consumed me for weeks and I could read nothing else. It was worth every minute.
#chunksterchallenge2022
Challenge Wrap-Ups to come
I‘m calling it on the year‘s best book. There‘s no way I‘ll read better between now and year‘s end.
This is embarrassing though. I quit the brackets in August because I couldn‘t choose a favorite book in the first 8 months. But in hindsight, the cat took the lead by a hair. ππββ¬ In the end, the Count beat them all.
So so many good books I read this year that didn‘t even make it into the #readingbracket2022
pickThis book is the ultimate revenge novel, but with a little of everything: romance, pirates, murder mystery, betrayal, adventure, travel. Dantes was thrown in a dungeon on trumped up charges & after escaping and becoming insanely wealthy, he seeks insidious revenge on the culprits who put him there. It was impossible for me not to cheer him on. My only frustration was how he βhelpedβ 2 lovers at the end; it was written to be a kindness but I β¬οΈ
Truth. I can tell you all about The Count of Monte Cristo right now. π
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Finished! 55 hours!! #chunksterchallenge @Amiable
Review to come but I can tell you now it was a 5-star read
Have I got a surprise! If you‘ve read the Oxford edition of this book, then you do not have this chapter!! I sometimes follow along the audiobook (which is unabridged) with my son‘s Oxford edition. And there between two paragraphs there should be this chapter (the subject is in the comments only if you want to read a spoiler)!
9 chapters to go! And thanks for the cards, cutest little angel, and Santa bookmark!
@LiseWorks @Deblovestoread @Catsandbooks @Bookwormjillk β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈπ
I figured it was time for an update. This is the only book I‘m reading right now. It‘s pretty all-encompassing the brain cells. Only 40 chapters left to go!
#chunksterchallenge2022 @Amiable
Here are some of the cards I‘m making while listening to the tagged book, which is so good
My son‘s been reading this one so I thought I‘d try the audio. 52 hours of audio. #chunksterchallenge @Amiable
β β βThree cheers to @zezeki for completing #ChunksterChallenge2022! It took TWO YEARS to get through it -- she started it for #ChunksterChallenge2021 but lost steam, so she tackled it again this year. And finished! AND she enjoyed it! I'm so proud of you. This is the very definition of persistence. Hooray! β
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pickI finally finished this classic adventure story, after working through it slowly the entire year. I found the Penguin Classics Robin Buss translation to be very good (compared to the Project Gutenberg one).
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panI really need to learn to stop reading my childhood favorites and just let them be. I didn't love this this time around. Too much going on and not in a good way but in a "meet the word count" way. I am sad.
To raise my spirits, I have included a pic of Henry Cavill from the CoMC film he was in. So young then. This is apparently one of the times that I prefer the movie over the book.
This is what happens when the high school screws up your new junior‘s schedule and gives him two study halls. He‘s showing them. He‘s 350 pages into this chunkster.
For those who follow me on Instagram it‘s my kid who wore his Oxford university T-shirt when he visited Cambridge this summer. π
pickIt‘s been a decade since I first read this & it was just as powerful the 2nd time around. The scenes with Dantes in prison remains some of my favorite from any book. I love his relationship w/the Abbe. The whole plot is an incredible example of patience & slow-burning revenge. There‘s a lag in the middle where the plot gets distracted, but other than that it‘s incredible start to finish. When it all comes together it‘s hard not to cheer out loud!
Happy Birthday to Alexandre Dumas ππ§πππͺ
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The Count has all his chess pieces in place and things are starting to come together. I can‘t put it down!!
pickThis book was absolutely amazing!!! Felix loved the string βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ i loved all the characters and how everything came together. I highly recommend this classic it‘s worth the 1200+ pages. Part of me would love if they would do right an HBO series. I mean the book has everything perfect for a twisty drama series.
On vacation decided to finally read The Count of Monte Cristoπππ Felix and I are Liking it so far π»
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βMy darling,β said Valentine, βthe count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words: Wait and hope.β
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I have been on such a BUMMER kick of βblahβ reads (sorry for all my βso-soβ reviews π) that I just want to throw out a blurb and say I am loving this book. It‘s exciting! I actually don‘t know where it‘s going all the time, and it‘s exactly what I want out of a novel. π
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Betrayal, heartbreak, isolation β Edmond Dantès experiences all of that (& more) in Le Comte de Monte-Cristo.
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π I‘m trying to read more classics! My favorite is The Count of Monte Cristo, because it has everything! My least favorite so far has probably been Moby Dick (it‘s starts out great, and you get sucked in and then they bore you to death for a very long while)
π There are lots I want to read. Right now David Copperfield is calling my name.
#Two4Tuesday
1. Not really, I have read a good number in the past and these days I enjoy easier reads.
2. I do really want to someday read the tagged classic.
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure story that takes place during the historical events of 1815 to 1838. This piece tells the tale of a man who seeks revenge after his escape from prision and deals with the central themes of vengeance, justice, forgiveness, and mercy.
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This year‘s Big Book with my mom: it‘s gonna fly by! Our first month‘s reading ended at a dramatic break, when Dantès is led into the dungeon at the Château D‘If. I think I‘m going to enjoy this adventure novel.
Thank you Jas16 for the beautiful edition of the Count of Monte Cristo and for helping me build my Penguin Classic collection. I love it. Can‘t wait to dive in. β€οΈπβοΈ
Posting this purely for accountability because I‘m determined to finish it! I‘m enjoying it so far - I was pleasantly surprised by how accessible it is. #motivation #chunkster #accountability
This is what I'm going to read/listen for 50+ hours.. my goal is to finish it in January! π€π»
pickA man of many masks, the Count of Monte Cristo teaches one to go through life with some degree of humanity and to remain humble to some degree. This masterpiece incessantly kept you on edge all throughout 1243 pages of pure ingeniousness. The ending was prolific and tied the rest of the novel together very nicely. My only criticism comes not from the novel itself but the publisher. I purchased this novel brand new and the etching is already worn.
pick12 Sep-13 Oct 2021 (audiobook)
A well-deserved classic not previously read (although I loved The Three Musketeers). Easy to dismiss such stories as cliched until you recall this was written 200 years ago. It was the trailblazer! Such books have remained popular for good reason - interesting characters, epic plots and beautiful writing.
This narrator was soothing - had to rewind several times as his voice was a successful cure for my insomnia.
Do you see that small round island off the coast from Marseille? That is Chateau d‘If, the prison island where this book was set! And it‘s my view right now π #1001books
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