I read The Count Of Monte Cristo, expecting a gripping revenge story, and instead I got a bloated mess where revenge is ultimately secondary to minutia, the titular character barely appears after some point, and there is little actual pathos in the actual revengeful quest. It all ends up as>lmao God providesand the MC gets a nubile bitch to fuck while basically making amends with most people. Utter juvenile trash.All that said, I bought this and I want to ask (You) whether it's more of the same moralizing serial schlock, or if it's a genuine novel about a character with a vengeful soul trying to ascend his status.
>>25127606>the titular character barely appears after some pointHe's in disguise, bro.But yeah, don't read The Red and the Black if Monte Cristo is not your vibe.
>>25127606The Count of Monte Cristo is the mass entertainment of its day. Think water cooler conversations at work. Stendhal is the father of psychological realism and his work is more about Sorel's inner life than a grand plot. If you're bored by discussions about religion and post-revolution politics, you will not enjoy it. There's no moralizing.
2002 movie is peak
>>25127674Sounds like my cup of tea then
>>25127606The recent movie is peak
>>25127626>He's in disguise, bro.Wow, really? Man, I really hadn't noticed... My point is that he disappears more or less so that tertiary characters can get their "bottle-episodes" before being merged into the larger narrative later. The Count stops being a character who's the driving force, and becomes a background caricature.>>25127674>If you're bored by discussions about religion and post-revolution politics, you will not enjoy it. There's no moralizing.I was bored by all the>X is fucking Y's wife and here's 90 pages of the backstory of a thief that's relevant for two small scenes in the larger story and also here's 50 pages on the economics of then-current banking and here's another 80 pages on some trite love-story and another 70 on a twist you can see coming from a mile awayIt was all just a sludge without anything to say.>>25129330>>25130593I like the movies more than the book, all in all. I tried the new series too, but then I saw that Haydee was some sub-saharan negress, and dropped it.
>>25127606The Count of Monte Crisco was the genre fiction of its day. You exhibit good taste to find it wearisome. Stendhal is literature that you will appreciate.
>>25127606Watch the anime.
