My thing is that I actually don’t need a major driving plot to enjoy a book!😂 I enjoy the really long books. I enjoy the long descriptions, looking at why the characterss do what they do and such. I do think that books can be really overly wrong but I felt like in the count of monte cristo it was excusable (granted it’s been a while since I read it last) I think there is a difference between drawing out a story just to fill pages and drawing it out in a sort of musing way that is perfectly excusable and even enjoyable. Though that too is dependent on the reader to decide what is acceptable in their eyes…🤔🤭
wow! you did pick a very large book for France! I really want to reread the Count of Monte Cristo. it was one of the first classics that I read as an adult. I got to go to Chateau D'If when I went to Marseille. So much fun!
I know! I'm ambitious, lol. And that's so cool! I would love to visit France someday and see so many of the places referenced in classic French literature.
Your edition of The Count of Monte Cristo is so pretty! I'm with you! I love seeing characters getting their revenge! I haven't read it yet but I need to!
At first I thought Count was fine...a 3 star book. But then the more I thought about it, I enjoyed it and thought it was so well done so I moved it up to 4 stars. I am not usually a plot focused reader so that plus I let my friend's opinion influence me but I kept thinking about it so I knew I enjoyed it more than I originally thought.
I have that book on my shelf waiting for me to read it. I found out that Alexandre Dumas's father, General Alex Dumas was the son of a slave. You can read about him in The Black Count.
I didn't think the Count of Monte Cristo was excessively long, I guess I truly enjoyed every single aspect of the book, I actually didn't want it to end 😅. However, a book that I did read that needed to be cut way down was, Anna Karenina. To this day, I'm still wondering WHY it's even titled that way as I don't find her to be the main character 🤔
I need ideas for Italy! I haven’t been able to think of a book set there!😅 I read Fair stood the wind for France by H E Bates. But I was disappointed! It could have been good but they ruined it… Also I LOVE the count of Monte cristo!
So sad you didn't like Bates's book. A few of my favorite books set in Italy: Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes (nonfiction cozy story about a woman who moves to Italy and builds a home), The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke (a middle grade book about a group of orphans living in Venice), and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (medieval murder mystery with a lot of theological debates). But there's so many great books set in Italy that I still need to read!
@@AnneEWilliamson Those sound amazingn I’ll check them out! I can remember a few story’s that are set in Italy but I can’t remember the titles!😅 I am bad at remembering that!
@@AnneEWilliamson Ah! I just realized that Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to arms is based in the Italian front lines! I have watched the movie before (it’s been a long time though!) and it has been on my list! Now I am so excited to read it! I also realized that I have quite a few books set in Scotland, maybe I will have to do a Scottish readathon!🤭
My thing is that I actually don’t need a major driving plot to enjoy a book!😂 I enjoy the really long books. I enjoy the long descriptions, looking at why the characterss do what they do and such. I do think that books can be really overly wrong but I felt like in the count of monte cristo it was excusable (granted it’s been a while since I read it last) I think there is a difference between drawing out a story just to fill pages and drawing it out in a sort of musing way that is perfectly excusable and even enjoyable. Though that too is dependent on the reader to decide what is acceptable in their eyes…🤔🤭
wow! you did pick a very large book for France! I really want to reread the Count of Monte Cristo. it was one of the first classics that I read as an adult. I got to go to Chateau D'If when I went to Marseille. So much fun!
I know! I'm ambitious, lol. And that's so cool! I would love to visit France someday and see so many of the places referenced in classic French literature.
Your edition of The Count of Monte Cristo is so pretty! I'm with you! I love seeing characters getting their revenge! I haven't read it yet but I need to!
Yes! Though I got my copy at a thrift store and it's a bit falling apart, lol. And I love revenge plotline!
At first I thought Count was fine...a 3 star book. But then the more I thought about it, I enjoyed it and thought it was so well done so I moved it up to 4 stars. I am not usually a plot focused reader so that plus I let my friend's opinion influence me but I kept thinking about it so I knew I enjoyed it more than I originally thought.
Yeah, it definitely is the type of book that is difficult to read, but definitely grows on you, lol.
Yes I’ve read it and loved it!
It's such a great story!
I have that book on my shelf waiting for me to read it. I found out that Alexandre Dumas's father, General Alex Dumas was the son of a slave. You can read about him in The Black Count.
Oh, interesting. I didn't know that. I'll definitely add The Black Count to my TBR!
I didn't think the Count of Monte Cristo was excessively long, I guess I truly enjoyed every single aspect of the book, I actually didn't want it to end 😅. However, a book that I did read that needed to be cut way down was, Anna Karenina. To this day, I'm still wondering WHY it's even titled that way as I don't find her to be the main character 🤔
Anna Karenina was sooo long, agreed! I definitely wasn't a big fan of Anna, though I love Tolstoy's descriptions!
My favourite book set in France is "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky. A modern classic, beautifully written by an author that died in Auschwitz.
Yes! Such a good book! I preferred the second part to the first, but so sad that Nemirovsky planned like 4 or 5 parts and never got to write the rest.
I need ideas for Italy! I haven’t been able to think of a book set there!😅 I read Fair stood the wind for France by H E Bates. But I was disappointed! It could have been good but they ruined it… Also I LOVE the count of Monte cristo!
So sad you didn't like Bates's book. A few of my favorite books set in Italy: Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes (nonfiction cozy story about a woman who moves to Italy and builds a home), The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke (a middle grade book about a group of orphans living in Venice), and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (medieval murder mystery with a lot of theological debates). But there's so many great books set in Italy that I still need to read!
@@AnneEWilliamson Those sound amazingn I’ll check them out! I can remember a few story’s that are set in Italy but I can’t remember the titles!😅 I am bad at remembering that!
@@AnneEWilliamson Ah! I just realized that Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to arms is based in the Italian front lines! I have watched the movie before (it’s been a long time though!) and it has been on my list! Now I am so excited to read it! I also realized that I have quite a few books set in Scotland, maybe I will have to do a Scottish readathon!🤭
I loved my reread of The Enchanted April for Italy. ☺️♥️
@@amyofhearthridge thank you! I will look it up!🥰
Duma not Dumas. Camu not Camus. That's how it is pronounced. It is never pronounced any other way.