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

Often silly, often tedious, sometimes very fun.

Several long snow days without much else to do besides be angry and afraid have helped me appreciate this a little more, at least for some escapism.

Kinda fun. I think it's going to be hard for me to spend over 1200 pages with characters who seem to have so little interiority. I somehow didn't realize this was another napoleonic novel, and I can't help but compare it to War & Peace, which seems to understand humans so much better, and to care about them so much more.