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The Count of Monte Cristo Chapters 1-7: The Plot Quickly Emerges

The Count of Monte Cristo Chapters 1-7: The Plot Quickly Emerges

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Jeremy Anderberg
Jun 18, 2023
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Hello, readers! 

With The Big Read’s first couple books of the year, we undoubtedly experienced a bit of Meandering Plot Syndrome. We were a couple hundred pages into Lonesome Dove before anything really happened, story-wise. Likewise, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn featured plenty of meandering sections in which not much happened other than languid descriptio…

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