The Count of Monte Cristo

De: Alexandre Dumas

Narrado por: Teddy Garraway

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.

The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. It begins on the day that Napoleon left his first island of exile, Elba, beginning the Hundred Days period when Napoleon returned to power. The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story centrally concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness.

Before he can marry his fiancée Mercédès, Edmond Dantès, a French nineteen-year-old first mate of the Pharaon, is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, correctly deduces that romantic rival Fernand Mondego, envious crewmate Danglars, and double-dealing magistrate De Villefort are responsible. Over the course of their long imprisonment, Faria educates Dantès and tells him of a cache of treasure he found. After Faria dies, Dantès escapes and finds the treasure. As the powerful and mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, he enters the fashionable Parisian world of the 1830s to avenge himself.

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Such a FANTASTIC STORY!!

I love how many subplots contribute to the main storyline, and the denouement (tying up all the loose ends) left me so satisfied that I am going to buy myself a copy of this book in print:)
There were some audio glitches and odd emphases of words and phrases at times that startled me (random noises or ejaculations in between chapters sometimes), but the overall performance was in a pitch that I liked!

Tolerable

Sounds like someone just had a program read voice to text. There are some weird noises or other nonsenical words spoken fairly frequently. Often there voice inflections don't match the context. That said, this version is certainly tolerable and didn't wholly ruin the book

This voice is AI

I wanted to like this version. The voice sounded more like a young man than an old fuddy-duddy but the errors are astounding. I’ve come to the realization that this narrator is not real and is AI generated. Boooooo

Editing Errors

I chose this over another audible book based on the narrator’s voice. I have listened to about the first 10 chapters and there have been some weird issues. The narrator’s pronunciations of characters’ names don’t seem to be consistent and I’m afraid he read Louis XVIII as Louis the 16th and some poor editing makes it sound like a combination of 16th and 18th overlapping. These errors are distracting enough that I probably won’t finish. I have read the Count of Monte Cristo before and it is a wonderful story.