Tome Thursday: The Count of Monte Cristo

Hello everyone!

As I've promised, here is the accompanying blog post to Tuesday's movie review, because, as some of the most memorable movies that have ever been made, a lot of them are based off literary works.

The Count of Monte Cristo was no exception.

The thing with the movie, however, was that it was pretty severely hacked down. If you can imagine a tree with a lot of branches and leaves and everything, that would be the book that Alexandre Dumas (Pere) wrote down.

And then take a chainsaw, rev it up, and hack off most of the foliage.

Then you get the movie.

No offense meant to the movie makers, of course - they took the main story of the book and dropped the accompanying ones, and no one is any wiser unless you've actually sat down to read the monstrous thing itself.

Trust me, it should come with its own insurance.

Talkie Tuesday: The Count of Monte Cristo

"How did I escape? With difficulty.
How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."

Hello everyone!

This week is going to be a bit Alexandre Dumas-coloured, if I do say so myself. I've been meaning to do something of the sort for a LONG time, but unfortunately, other things kept on happening and distracting me, this included but not limited to Rick Riordan and his books popping in and out of my reading list.

Yeah, I should probably dial down on the whole Jack the Sword quotations, right?

Anyway.

A while ago (this being now a long while ago) I decided, for some reason, to sit down and read The Count of Monte Cristo from beginning to end. As luck would have it, this took a bit (that thing is HUGE).

As luck would ALSO have it, in the meantime they aired the movie adaptation on television, though I had to double back and watch it later on as well because ... let's face it, I missed the whole beginning.

With that in mind, let's launch into our Monte Cristo-themed week!