While revenge is a dish best served cold I prefer my Monte Cristos to be toasted and warm. But maybe thats why he's the Count and I'm the customer. AllWhile revenge is a dish best served cold I prefer my Monte Cristos to be toasted and warm. But maybe thats why he's the Count and I'm the customer. All jokes aside, this book is incredible, reads at lightning pace, and is full of great and nuanced looks at concepts of redemption, debt, happiness and the limits of Justice. A novel that dives into the the gaping cracks in legal and societal justice only to discover a path of personal vengeance is less fulfilling than desired, Dumas weaves an intricate tale of crime and punishment that nets multiple generations in its narrative and delivers a book truly worth its status as an enduring classic. It plays out with the sensibilities of a swashbuckling adventure ripe with treasure and death at the end of a blade amidst the fraught political landscape during Napoleon’s island exile. It is a time where ‘the difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates,’ where loyalties are advantageous but leave you vulnerable and betrayal festers even in the hearts of those you hold dear. Dumas extols the virtues of education, training and persistence but advises that true retributive Justice is beyond the scope of humans. Ultimately, it is a big book worth every word that will fill your heart. Read it, you’ll love it.
‘ Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you.’...more
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