Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?

Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? by pmoriarty on Sunday December 29, 2019 @01:37AM (#21904451)

I'll second the recommendation of The Count of Monte Cristo.

There's a user on HN who learned French just so he could read it in the original, and I can see why.

If you read it, make sure to read the unabridged edition, and not any of the many abridged editions, which are often targeted at children and are a travesty to the mature themes in the original.

I can personally recommend David Clarke's reading of it on Librivox,[1] who does an excellent job.

[1] - https://librivox.org/the-count-of-monte-cristo-version-3-by-...

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Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? by folli on Sunday December 29, 2019 @02:40AM (#21904655)

Counterpoint: I prefer the abridged version. Dumas was originally paid by number of pages and it shows IMO.

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Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? by emodendroket on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:23AM (#21906666)

He was paid by the number of lines -- which actually does show by, for instance, the number of dialogues with Noirtier, a mute who mostly responds "yes" or "no."

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Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? by techer on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:41AM (#21905226)

Which one would you recommend?

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