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Reading The Count of Monte Cristo was very much like watching a few seasons of a prime time TV drama -- maybe along the lines of Downton Abbey. It's a very easy, enjoyable read, at times melodramatic. The main theme seems to be "some people are awful", not unlike prime time soap operas. I'm not a huge fan of vengeance, though I suppose (spoiler alert) some of the regret about collateral damage near the end of the book moves towards balancing that aspect of our hero's motivation. For me, I think
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The best novel that has ever been written.
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