I thought everyone was lying to me about The Count of Monte Cristo but somehow it really is THAT good.

I would like to formally apologize to Alexandre Dumas for underestimating him. I looked at the date and length and thought it would be boring, and I even made sure to download a few other books before I started reading it on the assumption that I would need a break during the tedious parts.There?? Were?? No?? Tedious parts???? I stayed up until 4 in the morning to read the first half and only fell asleep when my eyes could not process any more words. I don’t know how Dumas manages to write 1200 pages of nonstop action and intrigure & I am in awe! Les Mis is around the same length, and as much as I loved it, there were definitely parts where Hugo went off on long tangents and my eyes sort of glazed over.Obviously there were some parts of the book that have aged poorly, but on the whole it was an incredible journey and I’m so glad I finally picked it up.ETA: Woah, I was not expecting this to get so much attention. I’ve seen a lot of commenters saying this convinced them to pick up the book, so yay! I hope you have fun reading! And naturally some people disagree with me and didn’t like it, and that’s cool too :)As for all the people asking about the title, it was just a bit of hyperbole on my part! I didn’t think anyone was straight-up lying, but I assumed they were exaggerating considering the other books I’ve read that were over 1000 pages all had quite a lot of filler. I was happy to find that wasn’t the case!ETA 2: I read the English translation by Robin Buss 🙂 via /r/books https://ift.tt/2Ugw4Wv