AlexanderDumas

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | Tom Reiss

so-so

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TeamFiction

The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexander Dumas

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Faranae

The Corsican Brothers | Alexandre Dumas

so-so

Yeah, I'm a bit meh on this Dumas book. I'm reading it for Twitch for Black History Month (Canada) because it's one of his shortest works. The trouble with this book is that it's a slow burn, with 13 long chapters of build up to all the action in the last 7 chapters. It's hard to get invested in the tragedy of Lucien and Louis. My viewers are enjoying it, surprisingly enough. It's the forgotten basis for a pile of SFF stories, too.

Faranae Also, I'm deeply regretting the accent I gave Lucien for reading aloud. I was tired and what I pulled out for his apparently strong Corsican accent (not given an eye dialect, but mentioned), was some sort of unholy merging of my Francophone aunt's manner and accent, and a vaguely Italian accent. It's become extremely hard to maintain over multiple streams and I kind of hate it. Fortunately, there's a couple Librivox recordings to choose from. 😅 12mo

willaful I would never be able to get through this without incessant quoting from “Start the Revolution Without Me.“ 😂 12mo

Faranae @willaful Better than the Cheech and Chong film. 😂 12mo

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Pogue

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | Tom Reiss

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A well written and researched book on the life and times is Alex Dumas. There is a lot of history in here.

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Sleepswithbooks

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | Tom Reiss

@iread2much I‘ve been looking forward to reading one of your favorite books for quite some time now. Thank you for this gift and for being a wonderful friend!

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iread2much You are welcome! I hope you enjoy this book! 2y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome mug 🖤 2y

PageShifter Looks really interesting! 2y

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Michael_Gee

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | Tom Reiss

But France did not have a normal government: it had a collection of caffeinated intellectuals conducting passionate nonstop shouting matches in the former royal riding school of the Tuileries palace.

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Michael_Gee

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | Tom Reiss

This biography of Alex Dumas, the father of Alexandre Dumas, is anything but dry history. Reading about the son of a black slave who rises to prominence in the late eighteenth century is already engaging, and Reiss tells the story with a contemporary flair. Dumas‘s “new digs” are behind the Louvre and then there‘s this great beginning to a sentence: “Sexual adventure was trendy in 1784.”

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StaceGhost

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | Tom Reiss

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We‘ve had so much fun these past few days but we‘re both tuckered out lol 😂 it‘s a good kind of tired

Texreader Love this so much!! 4y

AmyG Adorable ❤️ 4y

kspenmoll Such a cutie! All snuggled in. 4y

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ValerieAndBooks

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | Tom Reiss

Book haul from Goodwill after I dropped off donations there! I‘ve been wanting to read the bio of Alex Dumas (the Black Count) for a long time!! But right now am reading thru the grilling cookbook for new ideas (such a 1990s cover 😂) — we recently got a grill/smoker.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa The Black Count is a good one! 4y

Ruthiella I‘ve heard good things about the Tom Reiss book about Dumas! 4y

ValerieAndBooks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I remember you posting about it — might have your posts that made me stack it! 4y

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ValerieAndBooks @Ruthiella I‘m looking forward to it. I may parallel read the tagged

The Count of Monte Cristo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @ValerieAndBooks The bad side of Litsy, lots of expanding TBR lists! And I actually ready The Count of Monte Cristo first and then The Black Count. They do have some relation to each other. 4y

Lynnsoprano @Alisnazzy and her brother gave us a combo gas/charcoal grill for Christmas. Now I need a grill cookbook, too! 4y

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SW-T

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | Tom Reiss

Read this one again and liked it just as much as on the first reading. 😊

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