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Advantages: classic, great story, great characters, can't stop reading
Disadvantages: can't stop reading (can be bad if you have homework as I did)

...to keep you interested all the way. Is there a book who can maintain a good story for more than 500 pages? Well this is it. There's no single chapter (something very difficult to achieve) without an interesting theme on it. Edmond Dantes is one of the best developed characters I've ever read of. You'll end the book wanting to be like him. There are a lot of other characters, which may be difficult to follow sometimes, but necessary (and so well ... Read review

Advantages: Good for a long car journey
Disadvantages: Very difficult

...and perhaps more reading knowledge. The words were such that no one under the age of 15 could possible understand fully. All in all it helps to see the film afterwards so you get an idea of what you are reading. Dumas is a classic author and all his books are mainly written in the style which The Man in The Iron Mask is written. One of his most famous works perhaps being the three muskateers to which everyone knows the story and most all love. However ... Read review

Advantages: all the hallmarks of the classic Bronte yarn
Disadvantages: Helen's diary can drag a little

The Bronte sisters are of course so famous that they have their own place at the pinnacle of English literature but in asking people what they know about the three amazing girls, Charlotte and Emily wrote classically more famous books: "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" respectively and so this one may be overlooked. Like "Agnes Grey", Anne Bronte draws on her experience as a governess and her brother Branwell provided the inspiration for Arthur ...
...more real one for the reader. The story is of a single woman who is a tenant in an abandoned old hall and becomes the object of gossip for her neighbours who wonder why she is living alone (that is without a husband, for she has a child). Yet there is one, Gilbert Markham, who resists believing such tales and slowly develops a tentative relationship with the guarded and secretive lady. In falling for each other, she gives him a copy of her diary ... Read review