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I want to read Dumas, where should I start?

>> No.2110570

By not being a Dumbass.
Dumbass Dumas

>> No.2110575

By reading one of his books.

>> No.2110576

The count of monte cristo.

>> No.2110578

Monte Cristo.

If you read an abridged version, I'll murder your family with a machete.

>> No.2110584

Cristo or 3 Muskateers.
>>2110578
OP, read the Wishbone version like a real man.

>> No.2110592

>>2110578
A LOTTA BORINGH SHIT GOIN ON IN THAT FUCKIER


read les miserables instreasd it's much better

>> No.2110596

>>2110592
>les miserables
>dumas
pick one

>> No.2110600

The Count of Monte Cristo. Haven't started it yet, but I'm very eager to.

>> No.2110604

>>2110596
if you're going to read a long ass french novel i mean

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>>2110600
well that shut your vagina you pretentious cunt

>> No.2110610

>>2110604
oh well that makes sense

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>>2110578

Like you have a machete. Fuck you.

What the fuck is it with /lit/ and the Count of Monte Cristo, anyway? It's an OK yarn, nothing more.

OP - I'd start with Les Trois Mousquetaires and then the rest of the D'Artagnan romances - they're his best, most enjoyable work. The Black Tulip is also very good.

Dumas wrote a cookbook as well, and he had the best 'fro in all of French Literature. Pic related.

>> No.2110646

>>2110634
Come on, it's not like it's hard to get a machete. Just ask African dictatorships.

>> No.2110669

>>2110646

Yeah, but it's probably too scary and sharp for him, and his mum won't let him keep it.

Don't give a fuck if he has got one - my big-ass bush knife that I was given by a genuine Maasai tribesdude will protect me from 4channers with dull cane-cutters.

>> No.2110670

>>2110669
well now you just sound like an internet tough guy more than he did

>> No.2110679

>>2110670

ahh, sorry - forgot 4chan cannot into irony.

So, what is the deal with The Count of Monte Cristo then? Is it on a lot of US high school curricula?

Like I say, I think it's a decent adventure story, nothing more.

>> No.2110684

>>2110679
it is just so fucking satisfying. it's a pretty big book, but at no point are you like, damn this book is long, it's just all good and really, there is nothing to complain about. everything is done so well. it may not be breaking barriers but it is like when your mom is a pretty good cook, but then one thanksgiving she really outdoes herself and makes the best damn home cooked meal you ever did have, so you remember that one. you put it in your pocket, and you remember.

>> No.2110694

>>2110684

You put your thanksgiving dinner in your pocket? DId you have to go to work or something? Didn't it get messy? Wasn't the food all mashed together with lint and bus tickets?