false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170662528m/66855.jpg 66855 16 This brilliant recasting of the classic story <b>The Count of Monte Cristo</b> centers on Ned Maddstone, a happy, charismatic, Oxford-bound seventeen-year-old whose rosy future is virtually pre-ordained. Handsome, confident, and talented, newly in love with bright, beautiful Portia, his father an influential MP, Ned leads a charmed life. But privilege makes him an easy target for envy, and in the course of one day Ned&#8217;s destiny is forever altered. A promise made to a dying teacher combined with a prank devised by a jealous classmate mutates bewilderingly into a case of mistaken arrest and incarceration. Ned finds himself a political prisoner in a nightmarish exile that lasts years, until a fellow inmate reawakens Ned&#8217;s intellect and resurrects his will to live. The chilling consequences of Ned&#8217;s recovery are felt worldwide. 420042 2000 Revenge: A Novel total:568|5:107|4:216|3:182|2:50|1:13| 568 2058 831 84 3 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jan 13 15:13:53 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 15:14:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 true true Sun Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 20:50:24 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 21:15:37 -0700 2008 Count of Monte Cristo revenge tale, set in England between 1980 and the present day. A well written thriller, good for a pleasant diversionary read. Starts off with a very compelling set-up, as the main character is betrayed and then sent off into a mysterious exile, lost to...more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 14:55:49 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 19:41:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 13:14:45 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 11:35:31 -0700 2009 The Hippopotamus, even if it was an incredibly weird, almost Sherlock Holmes-ian novel. I started reading it and the lighthearted comedy wasn't there and I kept thinking 'Gosh, this sounds an awful lot like The Count of Monte Cristo...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 21:46:20 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 20:54:33 -0700 2009
ah, this book reminded me why I don't read blurbs. I did not realize until 200 pages into the book that I was reading a retelling of the count of monte cristo, yes I realize I should have rea...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 15:16:07 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 15:21:56 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 18 10:02:03 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 10:12:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 06:25:18 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 16:00:22 -0700 2009
I was al...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Aug 23 16:26:24 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 17:22:09 -0700 2007 4 0 true false Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 21:20:29 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 07:19:38 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 13:29:53 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 16:38:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 01 05:41:49 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 09:22:55 -0700 2009
Friends of mine have told me for years that I should read Stephen Fry, that he was hilarious and his books excellent and so on. Maybe I just picked up the wrong novel, as I thought this was coldly efficient without much in the way of hea...more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Sep 05 17:53:04 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 17:54:57 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 06:29:03 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 21:18:23 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 11:15:47 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 11:16:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jul 05 07:36:13 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 10:05:07 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Feb 04 07:35:55 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 07:39:37 -0800 2009 Revenge for uncultured Americans, this is Fry's The Count of Monte Cristo. The hero is loveably unlikeable, the prose sparkles, the pacing is perfect. Horrible, horrible things happen, and it's absolutely delicious.
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