Classics for Beginners discussion

This is the official buddy read for The Count of Monte Cristo. Steven and Holly will start reading this week. Feel free to share your thoughts and ideas.

Fantastic! I'm ready to start whenever you are Steven!

Great! I have the book and am ready now.

Just out of curiosity, which edition do you have?

I read this in February, so may poke my head in once in a while to see how it's going. :-)

If you're curious, this is the old group read thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I had a friend who recommended this book to me (and he knows what will interest me!). HOWEVER - he suggested I watch the movie first. I did. I watched the 2002 version from Netflix. Oh my gosh! What a great movie! Inspired me to read this very long book. I listened to it via the audio version. I would never have picked up on all the characters if my friend had not suggested watching the movie first. Nice to have a casual friend that can "read me like a book"! Great story!

That movie was great! I’ve watched it a bunch of times. Richard Harris is great. I miss him. I know people may disagree with me, but I liked him way better as dumbledore. I like Michael Gambon a lot, but Harris is better. I can’t wait to read the book. I’ve wanted to for years, but have never gotten around to it.

Since you have seen the movie first, you will enjoy the book for sure! Good luck!

Hey, holly. Have you started yet? I’ve read a few pages today

Hey, holly. Have you ever seen the movie?

Hello
I am new here. I will start reading The Count of Monte Cristo next month. Could we plan a schedule for chapter-wise reading. It will much easy and better for discussion.
If you have already started reading then I will try and catch up.

Holly, are you still reading?