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Book Review - Revenge by Stephen Fry
Jun. 27th, 2006 01:26 pmFirst of all, how a retelling/modernisation of Dumas' Le comte de Monte-Cristo came out in 2000 and completely escaped my notice until a few days ago is beyond me. At any rate, I found it at the library and there was absolutely no way that I was leaving the library without it. Kept away from reading it until yesterday evening, gave up, and finished it (albeit with a few interruptions including one very long discussion) around 3:30 AM.
( Review below. Warning: Spoilers for both Fry and Dumas )
Someday, I want to teach a course on revenge plotlines. From The Oresteia to Batman. Because they all build so beautifully on each other. A pity Monte-Cristo might be too long to assign as part of a class, and not on its own. The longest book I read as part of an undergraduate class was Ulysses, and we needed an entire term to devote to it. Of course, I could just teach Monte-Cristo and use the other texts as additional material. Ooooh.
In other news, we might have a place to live. We just need to wait about two weeks, to see if the unit we want is still available. The gentleman who showed us around was kind enough to promise to let us know about any developments concerning the unit in question, so hopefully we'll have no problems there. And I spent the past few days reading lots. This makes me happy.
( Review below. Warning: Spoilers for both Fry and Dumas )
Someday, I want to teach a course on revenge plotlines. From The Oresteia to Batman. Because they all build so beautifully on each other. A pity Monte-Cristo might be too long to assign as part of a class, and not on its own. The longest book I read as part of an undergraduate class was Ulysses, and we needed an entire term to devote to it. Of course, I could just teach Monte-Cristo and use the other texts as additional material. Ooooh.
In other news, we might have a place to live. We just need to wait about two weeks, to see if the unit we want is still available. The gentleman who showed us around was kind enough to promise to let us know about any developments concerning the unit in question, so hopefully we'll have no problems there. And I spent the past few days reading lots. This makes me happy.
