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submitted 1 week ago by penquin@lemm.ee to c/books@lemmy.world

Holy shit! This book is insane. I'm half way through it, and I can't even express how I feel about this book. Masterpiece? Doesn't give it justice. I've never done this in my life over a book (and I've read well over 500 books for the last 30 years), I got emotional during some parts of this book. I have ADHD and it's very hard for me to focus when reading, unless it's an extremely good book like this I guess. This probably sounds silly to some. The reason why I'm only just finding out about this book is because I'm new to the West. An immigrant if you will, and never heard of this book until a couple of weeks ago. If you haven't read this book; I highly recommend it. Alexandre Dumas is a genius.

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[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

I was going to read it in French. I wonder if I'm missing out by doing that (it's a great movie, and I'm only semi fluent in French).

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

I'm reading it in Arabic, as the English version has a ton of words I don't know and I got tired of translating. I wish I were fluent in French, it's always best to read a book in its original language IMHO.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

At worst, it's going to be excellent practice

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