Montecristo

Finished reading the Conte di Montecristo from Dumas. This novel is the story of a revenge, a tremendous revenge of a man who is re-birth. Nice book, in spite of its 2 volumes of more of 400 pages each, I have swallowed it in less than 1 month. In his writing, Dumas does not pay too much attention to the writing style, with surprising bad results every now and then: melodrammatic dialogs now and then. But he puts everything on the story, the building of evil and execution of revenge.

The books starts poorly, with good characters which are far too good, and bad characters which are clearly bad. Looks like a US movie. But things change fast, as the doubts find his way in everybody, and feelings get mixed.

A nice novel, in the end. Above all, because a legend says that the torcederos, i.e. the people makng cigars, were entertained with the reading of a book, and some of them liked this book so much, that their cigars took their name. Clearly, Montecristo are the best cigars in the world, as Pepe Carvalho smokes them in his melancholy excesses.