Ashley’s Reviews > The Count of Monte Cristo > Status Update

We have the telegraph, man, why are you here? is the Napoleonic Wars version of this could have been an email.

This started out as my bedtime book but it has morphed into my daytime read as well. Coming up on my favorite part of the book (and everyone's? question mark?)—the section set at the Chateau D'If, and the escape.

feeling great tonight let’s break out of prison!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I kind of knew to expect this, but these fools are almost vengeancing themselves. Monte Cristo gives them rope and they climb up the tree and hang themselves. Er, metaphorically speaking.

So I'm really into this again, just like I was through the first third or so. Guess it's just the middle that's sloggy. Like, hours and pages and hours and pages of slog. But perhaps necessary to feel the way I'm feeling now? Will have to ponder.

Well, shit. That was unexpectedly moving.

And with that, we're finally to the part where there is no more planning and set-up, and things are HAPPENING.

These mofos making all the wrong decisions with their lives.

Albert is an entitled little shit.

I finish an entire audiobook's worth (eight hours, forty-eight minutes) of story, and yet, I am still not even 70% in. I am never going to finish this book.