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04-23-2008, 07:37 AM
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|  Favorite? Count of Monte Cristo! The Count of Monte Cristo is by far one of the best books I have ever read! It is exciting at the beginning and the end and I love how the middle is so cold and calculating. I was ecstatic when Gankutsuou came out and it turned out to be amazing! Everyone should read this book and watch that anime! |
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04-24-2008, 04:00 PM
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| Distressed Damsel  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Where the heart is!
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 | Well, i love harry potter because its well written and imaginative and NEW-- i also love Chronicles Of Narnia--- my most favorite!  Daddy long legs was written differently... unique! Nicholas Parks' A walk to remember... Minami Kanan and Kaho Miyasaka's mangas... i love reading, can't help it! 
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05-08-2008, 02:56 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: jihanem! (it's all the same to me)
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| Eh! No way, theirs an anime?! I love the Count of Monte Cristo, it's my favorite movie ever!!I've wanted to read the book of a very long time now, but I heard that it wasn't the same thing and I'm scared that I'll be disappointed. |
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05-11-2008, 02:45 AM
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05-21-2008, 05:30 AM
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| best book ever by far, there are two books that I consider the best: "Count of Monte Cristo" and "Pride and Prejudice". These are the two books that no one who loves reading can go through life without reading. Harry Potter may be a very interesting novel, but it is not as sophisticated, it's an adventure which is mostly targeting young readers. "Count of Monte Cristo" and "Pride and Prejudice" are masterpieces dealing with much deeper philosophical and moral issues, they are called literally masterpieces after all. P.S. I loved the anime Gaunkutsuou, but it does not do the book justice and I would say is only based on "Count of Monte Cristo" since there is so many differences in the plot and the story itself. |
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05-21-2008, 05:36 AM
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The Count of Monte Cristo is the best book ever! I got so into it that, while reading it in Chem. class, I shouted out "NOOO!!!" and shut the book forcing everyone to look my way. I love how he calculated everything to the second, years in advance. Can't stand the movie, though. It was a Hollywood piece of crap. | |
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05-23-2008, 08:33 AM
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05-29-2008, 11:39 AM
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 | There was an anime to it?! o_O I haven't read the book, but I've watched the movie, and people say here that the movie isn't quite good...I'll have to look up on that, and go book hunting! 
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06-19-2008, 05:08 AM
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| I loved every word out of Dumas' pen (and that's saying something, considering the man probably talked even through his sleep) up until the last three pages. I hated the ending. Literally, just the ending, just the last three or so pages, everything prior was bliss. If you like The Count of Monte Cristo for its swashbuckling, you should definitely pick up his The Three Musketeers. It is pretty much required reading for any fan of the buckle that swashs and anybody who calls themselves a Dumas fan. I also recommend Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (abridged, shoot me but this one I would recommend abridged) which I personally found almost superb to all of Dumas.
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06-20-2008, 03:39 AM
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| Oh, I am already halfway through The Three Musketeers and loving every bit of it! I keep thinking to myself that if I were living back in the nineteenth century when these novels were cerealized in newspapers, I don't think I could have stood the suspense of waiting for a new installment to come out. And unlike The Count of Monte Cristo the movie, I really liked the Hollywood adaptations of TTM and The Man in the Iron Mask, (although I haven't read this yet). |
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