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Ghost Leviathan posted:Count of Monte Cristo has some pretty fun filler though. I loved the revisit of Caderousse and his wife. It was a total emotional roller coaster, I was like "Dude, you were doing so well, but then you had to listen to your greedy wife and try to murder the stranger for more money and now your on his shitlist. I'm so sorry you're an idiot." I also liked just how much of a dickhead Edward becomes after prison. It's not even a revenge fantasy after that point as he's being terrible to everyone, even those who didn't wrong him yet.
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Most of the classic French novels from that era are actually perfectly readable today. Your average Balzac novel, for example, isn't even that long. Dude was pumping them out. The Count of Monte Cristo is a notable exception, I read it in its entirety, in French, and I don't think I'll be doing that again anytime soon
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Phlegmish posted:Most of the classic French novels from that era are actually perfectly readable today. Your average Balzac novel, for example, isn't even that long. Dude was pumping them out. Unabridged Les Mis is a nightmare. However Candide is still EXTREMELY good even now.
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muscles like this! posted:Unabridged Les Mis is a nightmare. The Bernstein opera loving rules
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... I don't get it. At all. How about everybody spend a few months arguing about the most bizarre interpretations they can dream up?
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A sad commentary on the resistance to any attempt at help against your addiction to snake-sniffing
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If you reverse the panels, the elephant is rescuing the man from a snake attack, and then gently puts the snek down on the ground and they become friends.
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beanieson posted:If you reverse the panels, the elephant is rescuing the man from a snake attack, and then gently puts the snek down on the ground and they become friends. 
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elephant gun, you lunatics
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beanieson posted:If you reverse the panels, the elephant is rescuing the man from a snake attack, and then gently puts the snek down on the ground and they become friends. checks out
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Phlegmish posted:Most of the classic French novels from that era are actually perfectly readable today. Your average Balzac novel, for example, isn't even that long. Dude was pumping them out. You just read slow. I like a big long story I can binge like a Netflix show.
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These intentionally bad New Yorker cartoons are the only New Yorker cartoons I've ever enjoyed. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/dai...cial-type=owned
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rodbeard posted:These intentionally bad New Yorker cartoons are the only New Yorker cartoons I've ever enjoyed. these are p funny but it would have been next level if he committed fully to the all star bit
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I thought the middle panel was "The people who destroyed me the last time I was online are still at it" and was getting my credit card out for the new avatar  Ghost Leviathan posted:Count of Monte Cristo has some pretty fun filler though.
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The Count of Monte Cristo actually would really lend itself to a prestige TV series, though I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least one in French already. There's a goddamn anime. (Which apparently is low budget and leans into the surreal. Also the Count is a space vampire)
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The Count of Monte Cristo actually would really lend itself to a prestige TV series, though I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least one in French already. There's a goddamn anime. (Which apparently is low budget and leans into the surreal. Also the Count is a space vampire) There's the 1998 French miniseries with Gerard Depardieu that is very good, but the Soviet version is still the best, imo.
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Tiggum posted:
I could use a new av. Mods?
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Also doesn't help that you pretty much have to do at least a cliff's notes of French history to understand the overarching plot, though I suppose for the intended audience at the time that would be extremely well-known recent history.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I could use a new av. Mods? I think you should buy this avatar, Milo and POTUS. It is a good one.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:You just read slow. I like a big long story I can binge like a Netflix show. Hahaha this is the nerdiest flex I've ever seen
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Not sure how appropriate this is to this thread, but I'll take a probation if it's not. Apparent sex pest Cody Pickrodt sued eleven people (nine comic artists, one critic, one publisher) for defamation. Eight of them were dismissed from the suit on technicalities, and the remaining three, including Whit Taylor who has detailed Pickrodt's assaults against her. You can donate to their defense fund [url=https://www.gofundme.com/f/spx-support-the-11?fbclid=IwAR0GHJKoQv60mrhc5jAlNAS-e-PtV4ABZzqf6OyuT_YDQbYTjdrfpGo-CQ8here[/url] Also, gently caress it, content: 
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Phlegmish posted:Most of the classic French novels from that era are actually perfectly readable today. Your average Balzac novel, for example, isn't even that long. Dude was pumping them out. The Three Musketeers is so much fun, as are some of the sequels - Milady de Winter is such a satisfyingly competent antagonist. 'The Man in the Iron Mask' is a mess, probably because it's not really a complete book - it's the last third of an absolutely enormous book (The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later).
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Michaellaneous posted:I don't get it. Me either, but it had a bunch of panels so I thought I should put it here.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I could use a new av. Mods? It is a good one. I considered it but Thanos still cracks me up
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trickybiscuits posted:Not sure how appropriate this is to this thread, but I'll take a probation if it's not. this one's me 
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:this one's me Makes sense, that one kid brought fresh food for school lunch!
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Tiggum posted:
Oh poo poo I forgot which thread that request was in and did it too:
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Pookah posted:The Three Musketeers is so much fun, as are some of the sequels - Milady de Winter is such a satisfyingly competent antagonist. I've read both The Count of Monte Cristo and the whole Musketeers series in their full unabridged glory (translations, mind you, I can't read French). Yeah, writers in those days were paid by the word and Dumas was an especially verbose bastard, but he generaly managed to make his stuff brilliantly entertaining as well. Was kind of fun in one of the Musketeer sequels when they reminisce about the good old days when Richelieu was in charge and how he got things done unlike the idiot running things now.
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I've never read the Count of Monte Cristo but the sandwich is pretty good
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Thank you friendo
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Who What Now posted:I've never read the Count of Monte Cristo but the sandwich is pretty good The book is better for reading but worse for eating
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trickybiscuits posted:
There's always one kid who's been exposed to age innapropriate media.
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Beachcomber posted:There's always one kid who's been exposed to age innapropriate media. The one kid in sex ed who's completely unfazed and pretty bored.
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