Which should I read first?

[Jon Paul]

Well simple enough. Which should I read first?

[Red2111]

in this order

 

- Count (flamming great story)

- Les miserable

- Musketters

- Anna

 

and i'd totlaly skip War and Peace, go with Crime & Punishment instead. W&P is way too long and is boring imo, atleast C&P has a greatstory once you get past the 1st 100 pages.

[Jon Paul]

and i'd totlaly skip War and Peace, go with Crime & Punishment instead. W&P is way too long and is boring imo, atleast C&P has a greatstory once you get past the 1st 100 pages.

 

Don't have Crime and Punishment on my shelf unlike War and Peace. Sure they were only £2 a pop but I didn't have that much cash on my card and basically choose them all at random !

 

I don't mind long books, it's why I prefer series and it's one of the reasons I rarely ever read stand-alone novels. In fact.. I don't think I ever had read a stand-alone novel.

[Reeve]

and i'd totlaly skip War and Peace, go with Crime & Punishment instead. W&P is way too long and is boring imo, atleast C&P has a greatstory once you get past the 1st 100 pages.

 

Don't have Crime and Punishment on my shelf unlike War and Peace. Sure they were only £2 a pop but I didn't have that much cash on my card and basically choose them all at random !

 

I don't mind long books, it's why I prefer series and it's one of the reasons I rarely ever read stand-alone novels. In fact.. I don't think I ever had read a stand-alone novel.

 

You should check if The Count is an abridged version. I couldn't find one in the US shops, they have all been edited to make the writing easier, and some of them seem to have cut the story too, judging by the number of pages. I ended up buying it from the UK.

[Jon Paul]

You should check if The Count is an abridged version. I couldn't find one in the US shops, they have all been edited to make the writing easier, and some of them seem to have cut the story too, judging by the number of pages. I ended up buying it from the UK.

 

I'm in the UK my self. It's the Wordsworth Classics edition, just under 900 pages. I'm sure it's not the abridged version.

[kukasö]

I'd start with The Three Musketters(as I actually did myself when I was 9) or with The Count(maybe better with the Count)

War and Peace is not very bad especially if you skip all the phylosophy (or only a part of it when you understand that it's repeated for the third time already and there are some more pages of it)

 

Can't say anything about Les Misérables and Anna Karenina(maybe I'd read AK after W&P)

[Jon Paul]

Well it looks like The Count is pulling first.

[brujah]

I voted Monte Cristo because its the only one of those that I've read. I can also tell you that I would say 99.9 percent of the time that the book is better than the movie. But the movie version of The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my fav movies EVER, AND iMO is even better than the book which is extraordinary in itself.

[Barmacral]

Count of Monte Cristo, fantastic book.