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okay this ballsack guy can write

“She had a sort of vague feeling that she would have to end her life, but what of it?”

it’s such a good bit that Monte Cristo has three separate secret identities and they’re all abbots

Edmond is a political prisoner on an island fortress. The authorities can’t give him a trial, because they have no evidence, but they can’t let him go either, as he would be dangerous to the regime. So they just let him rot. What I’m saying is, this is just Guantanamo Bay.

Guys, this rocks.

"Have all centuries, then, resembled ours? Has man, as in our day, always had before his eyes a world where nothing is linked; where love of order is confused with a taste for tyrants and the holy cult of freedom with contempt for laws; where conscience casts only a dubious light on human actions; where nothing seems any longer to be forbidden or permitted, or honest or shameful, or true or false?

This Andrew Jackson guy sounds like a real piece of work!

YES… HA HA HA… YES!

“It was a city to visit, not a city to live in, but it was the city where Wormold had first fallen in love and he was held to it as though to the scene of a disaster.”

For now just reading the selection from what's in the anthology I have, which is just books I and II. If I like it, I'll go through the whole thing.

not sure what to expect for this but my expectations are pretty high

I want to be clear I am reading this IN TRANSLATION from an anthology--I just couldn't find a standalone English translation to log on goodreads. ya boi cannot read german

let me tell you the real “trial” is reading this gd book!