Quote Originally Posted by Winged Dancer
Oh yeah, anyone here ever read The Count of Monte Cristo? God, that's one amazing book. It's just superb. Every character is built perfectly, all the interactions are flawless, the sub-plots somehow always fit into the main one.... I want to write like Dumas, he's just too great.
I will also join the bandwagon on this one. I was obsessed with Dumas back in high school. I read a whole bunch of his works... 3 Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask, some other titles that escape me at the moment. But Count of Monte Cristo was the best out of all of them. And that's the reason why I enjoyed the anime Gankutsuo so much. It's the only on-screen adaptation (on tv or movie) that I have encountered that perfectly matched the spirit of Dumas' writing, even if it wasn't word-for-word accurate.