[Dragaera] Steven Brust's The Baron of Magister Valley! Ordered mine! Available July 28, 2020

[Steve Rapaport]

There are two other updates of Monte Cristo I recommend as good reads.

The best is of course The Stars My Destination (aka Tiger Tiger) (1956) by
Alfred Bester. It is a very loose adaptation with its own world-changing
agenda.

Another I liked was the dot-com era adaptation The Stars' Tennis Balls by
Stephen Fry (2000). This one is a pretty close parallel, but shorter and
punchier. You can also have fun seeing the wordplay on the character names.

Cheers,
Steve the Youngerq

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020, 3:40 pm Howard Brazee via Dragaera, <
dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:

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>
> > On Jul 28, 2020, at 8:28 AM, Jerry Friedman via Dragaera <
> dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:
> >
> > Have people read The Count of Monte Cristo?  I tried a bit, and when I
> got to where Dantès was arrested it looked way too long, so I skipped to
> shortly before the escape and got to Franz's visit to Monte Cristo with
> hashish.  Any thoughts on whether I've seen enough, or should try to hit
> some more highlights, or might consider reading the whole thing?
>
> I read it this year.   I didn’t care for it.   Interesting details, but
> dumber plot than I remembered it.
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