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Title: I'm really sorry I read the unabridged version
Review: The unabridged version of this is huge, huge. Like 1200 pages.I actually did read all of it. First time, though, that I would have to count myself sorry that I read the unabridged version of anything.There were exciting elements to the plot, to be sure, but after Dantes makes sure that M. Morrel is taken care of (p. 300 in the Penguin Classics edition: the part where the narrator skips ahead 10 years without telling you), the next 800 pages or so really drag. It's obvious that, at this time, writers were being paid by the word.Could be much stronger as a shorter (er, say, 200 pages) novel.
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